Abstract: A device may configured to receive a request to provide optimized investment information. The optimized investment information may indicate optimized investments for types of marketing. The device may receive constraint information indicating bounds for the optimized investments. The device may receive sales goal information indicating a sales goal to be achieved by the optimized investments. The device may determine the sales goal is not achievable based on the bounds. The device may broaden the bounds for the optimized investments based on the sales goal not being achievable such that the optimized investments may deviate from the bounds. The device may determine the optimized investments based on a deviation of the optimized investments from the bounds and a total investment cost of the optimized investments to achieve the sales goal. The device may provide the optimized investment information, indicating the optimized investments, to another device based on the request.

Abstract: Provisioning resources into the cloud is a constantly increasing technical challenge as more cloud service providers emerge, each offering disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features. A network proxy controls and normalizes the tagging data applicable across the multiple cloud service providers. The network proxy provides a central control mechanism for discovering, monitoring, and updating complex tagging data applied to the technical components provisioned with the cloud service providers. The network proxy also dynamically generates technical component request interfaces that include specifically prioritized metadata tags.

Abstract: A system is described for determining a relative location of a plurality of items upon a plurality of platforms. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a first item, a second item, a first period of time and a second period of time. The interface may be operative to communicate with a user and an antenna. The antenna may be able to detect an item for a period of time. The processor may be operative to receive from the antenna, via the interface, the first item, the first period of time, the second item and the second period of time. The processor may determine whether the periods of time overlap. If the periods of time overlap the processor may communicate to the user that the items are upon the same platform, otherwise that the items are on consecutive platforms.

Abstract: A method and system for using individualized customer models when operating a retail establishment is provided. The individualized customer models may be generated using statistical analysis of transaction data for the customer, thereby generating sub-models and attributes tailored to customer. The individualized customer models may be used in any aspect of a retail establishment's operations, ranging from supply chain management issues, inventory control, promotion planning (such as selecting parameters for a promotion or simulating results of a promotion), to customer interaction (such as providing a shopping list or providing individualized promotions).

Abstract: A method may include obtaining a plurality of information subsets from a plurality of provider devices. The plurality of information subsets may be obtained via a receiver network, and the plurality of information subsets may be provided to the plurality of provider devices via a network other than the receiver network. The method may include determining that the plurality of information subsets are included in an information set. The method may include processing the plurality of information subsets to assemble the information set. The method may include determining a result of processing the plurality of information subsets. The method may include providing, by the device, information based on the result of processing the plurality of information subsets.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes filtering a first plurality of requests based on one or more criteria to generate first filtered requests, the first plurality of requests being associated with a first query plan that is associated with a first instance, identifying a first application associated with at least a portion of the first filtered requests, and determining a quantity of cores used by the first application based at least in part on the portion of the first filtered requests associated with the first application.

Abstract: An intelligent information delivery system facilitates dynamic interaction with the user's environment, and in certain environments may provide or support digital governance. The intelligent delivery system may make use of a distributed beacon network to accurately determine the user's location within an environment, which may then be leveraged to deliver relevant content to the user. The intelligent delivery system may also facilitate complex interactions between a user of the system and the user's environment.

Abstract: A device may obtain a document. The device may identify a skip value for the document. The skip value may relate to a quantity of words or a quantity of characters that are to be skipped in an n-gram. The device may determine one or more skip n-grams using the skip value for the document. A skip n-gram, of the one or more skip n-grams, may include a sequence of one or more words or one or more characters with a set of occurrences in the document. The sequence of one or more words or one or more characters may include a skip value quantity of words or characters within the sequence. The device may extract one or more terms from the document based on the one or more skip n-grams. The device may provide information identifying the one or more terms.

Abstract: A plurality of coding violation indications corresponding to software code are categorized according to a plurality of coding quality attributes. The coding violation indications may be reported via static analysis tools or via manual analysis of the software code. The categorized coding violations serve as the basis for determining a plurality of code quality indices each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of coding quality attributes. In an embodiment, the plurality of code quality indices may be further processed to determine an overall code quality index for the software code. One or more of the resulting code quality indices may be displayed to a user. In this manner, code quality indices may be provided that are directly based on coding violations reported through static analysis.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for categorizing a process using crowdsourcing are described. The methods include the action of receiving data indicating resources allocated upon execution of each of one or more processes. The methods further include the action of receiving data indicating a configuration of the client device. The methods further include receiving data indicating a user selection whether to execute each of the one or more processes. The methods further include the action of determining a risk score that reflects a likelihood that the process is a malicious process. The methods further include the action of identifying a particular process. The methods further include the action of performing additional processing on the particular process. The methods further include the action of determining an updated risk score for the particular process.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing facial recognition image data in a cache. One of the methods includes receiving an image from a camera, detecting, in the received image, a face of a person, searching a biometric data cache based on the detected face, in response to searching the biometric data cache based on the detected face, determining whether the biometric data cache includes data for the person, in response to a determination that the biometric data cache includes data for the person, using the data from the biometric data cache to determine an identifier for the person, and in response to a determination that the biometric data cache does not include data for the person: searching a data storage system based on the detected face of the person to determine whether the data storage system includes data for the person.

Abstract: Provisioning resources into the cloud is a constantly increasing technical challenge as more cloud service providers emerge, each offering disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features. A cloud computing provisioning architecture implements a sequence of complex technical analyzes that successfully provisions complex cloud computing services.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a network security threat response. A data structure that represents communication events between computing devices of two or more network domains is received. The data structure is analyzed and a threat scenario that is based on a chain of communication events that indicates a potential attack path is determined. The chain of communication events include a sequence of communication events between computing devices proceeding from an originating computing device to a destination computing device, wherein the originating computing device and the destination computing device exist on different network domains. Attack pattern data, for the threat scenario and from a threat intelligence data source, that is associated with communications between computing devices that occurred during one or more prior attacks is received.

Abstract: A network component placement architecture addresses the difficult technical challenge of determining where specific technical components of an overall service may be provisioned. However, the placement decision can change over time in response to complex updates relating to service providers, the regions they support, the assets they support, and many other dynamic factors. Dynamic network component placement effectively determines updated possibilities for placing the technical components of a specified service, while meeting all of the applicable technical constraints on the placement of the technical components.

Abstract: A system for allocating resources to demand requests is set forth. The system is configured to identify a set of resource requirements based on a demand request. The system is also configured to choose a resource that satisfies at least one of the identified resource requirements. The system is further configured to allocate the selected resource to the demand request based on whether a client can satisfy a locking prerequisite associated with the selected resource.

Abstract: A method and apparatus provides information to enhance at least one of: a sales, a service and an administrative transaction by communicating with a plurality of applications from a group of applications in accordance with rule information and based on at least two of the received: end user identification information, client identification information and transaction type information. In one example, the apparatus includes a rules engine, an application integrator, an integration and presentation module, and an integrated user interface. The rules engine causes the application integrator to communicate with a plurality of applications in accordance with the rule information, and at least two of: the end user identification information, the client identification information, and the transaction type information.

Abstract: A system may include one or more server devices. The system may provide a set of questions, to a user of a user device, to characterize an Internet of things system. The system may obtain responses from the user of the user device associated with each of the set of questions. The system may automatically create an Internet of things system architecture that defines the Internet of things system by applying associated Internet of things system architecture rules to the responses.

Abstract: According to an example, event anomaly analysis and prediction may include accessing a master directed graph that specifies known events and transitions between the known events, and ranking each of the known events. Each of the ranked known events may be clustered into a plurality of anomaly categories. A plurality of rules to analyze new events may be determined based on the plurality of anomaly categories. A determination may be made, based on an application of the plurality of rules to data that is to be analyzed for an anomaly, whether the data includes the anomaly. In response to a determination that the data includes the anomaly, a device associated with the data may be controlled.

Abstract: A system provides integrated multi-energy scheduling control in a micro-grid. The micro-grid may comprise a combined cooling, heating and power CCHP unit and an ice-storage air conditioner. In embodiments, an integrated multi-energy scheduling control process for operation in the micro-grid is performed, based on the predicted electricity demand and cooling demand and the predicted renewable energy output, under process constraints to determine the amount of electricity exchanged between the micro-grid and a macro-grid, cooling power output and electricity output of the CCHP unit, and operation modes and cooling power output of the ice-storage air conditioner in time intervals in a scheduling period, wherein electricity supply/demand balance and cooling energy supply/demand balance are coupled. The system may achieve multi-energy supply/demand balance at a minimized operational cost, and may achieve a high energy efficiency of both the CCHP units and a high performance of the ice-storage air conditioner.

Abstract: A system for power grid distribution network control can monitor a power grid distribution network in real-time, detect an abnormal loading condition based on real-time measurements on the distribution network, and perform in real time, in response to the detected abnormal loading condition, a reconfiguration analysis of the distribution network. The reconfiguration analysis can be performed based on heuristic logic that combines real time depth first trace and breadth first division of nodes within the distribution system. Through the reconfiguration analysis process, the system can generate and implement a practical and optimized reconfiguration plan in real time so as to alleviate or eliminate an abnormal loading condition in time to prevent possible pre-matured failures of equipment and consequently save cost of equipment replacement and/or related power outages. Accordingly, the distribution network may operate with improved stability and reliability, and a cost of operation can be reduced.