Abstract: Methods of and devices for developing supply chain management are disclosed. Logic and devices implementing the logic for supply chain management avoid resources (e.g., machine component parts, raw materials, machines, machine capacity) being inappropriately re-allocated to customers without the customers' submission of forecasts in an accurate and timely manner.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, a confidential data architecture is extended by providing components for reliably inferring confidential data insights (e.g., median salary) for cohorts with little or no actual submitted confidential data. This is performed by inferring confidential data values based on organizations that are considered to be peers to the organization of interest. This solution involves two parts: the generation of a novel, semantic representation (embedding) of organizations to be used to compute a similarity measure between any two organizations, and the use of the semantic representation to compute a peer organization group of a given company.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented scheduling method. The method comprises processing project data to determine one or more team-specific scheduling solutions for work items, each team specific scheduling solution for the work item defining a particular team and one or more iterations of that particular team in which the work item can be completed; identifying from the one or more team-specific scheduling solutions an optimal scheduling solution for the work item, the optimal scheduling solution being selected based at least in part on the number of iterations defined by each of the one or more team-specific scheduling solutions; and scheduling the work item according to the optimal scheduling solution identified for the work item.

Abstract: A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network. The one or more server hardware computing devices include one or more processors and memory storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a first request to calculate a trust score for a user associated with a user account of an online proctored examination platform. The trust score represents results of a risk analysis of the user. The instructions cause the system to obtain internal data of the online proctored examination platform, the internal data describing usage of the online proctored examination platform by the user, perform the risk analysis using at least the internal data to produce the trust score, associate the trust score with the user account, and perform an action based on the trust score.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, analytics data at a feeder level of a utility transmission and distribution system; generating, by the computing device, a confidence score for a feeder based on the analytics data at the feeder level; receiving, by the computing device, analytics data at a transformer level of the utility transmission and distribution system; generating, by the computing device, a confidence score for a transformer associated with the feeder based on the analytics data at the transformer level and the confidence score of the feeder; receiving, by the computing device, analytics data for customers associated with the transformer; generating, by the computing device, confidence scores for the customers based on the analytics data and the confidence score of the transformer; and outputting, by the computing device, information regarding the confidence scores for the customers for determining the effectiveness of a demand response (DR) program.

Abstract: A system and method for coordinating parking enforcement officer patrol in real time with the aid of a digital computer is provided. A time-based active representational model of the city is created by fusing sensory data collected from various sources around a city with numerical data gleaned from historical and ongoing activities, including parking regulation citation and warning numbers, resource allocations, and so on. The model can be used to form quantitative predictions of expected violations, revenue stream, and so forth, that can then be used as recommendations as to where to enforce and when, so as to maximize the utilization of the limited resources represented by the officers on the street. Moreover, the performance of the officers can be weighed against expectations of performance postulated from the quantitative predictions.

Abstract: In one embodiment a plurality of transportation requests received from a plurality of subscribers to the transportation service are accessed, wherein a group of a plurality of drivers of the transportation receive one or more of the plurality of transportation requests. At least one performance score over a time period is generated for each driver of the group of drivers of the transportation service based at least in part on the transportation requests. A distribution of a compensation pool associated with the time period among the drivers of the group is determined according to the at least one performance score.

Abstract: A system and method of managing and prioritizing tasks amongst resources and, more particularly, to a system and method for providing automatic task assignment and notification amongst globally dispersed human resources. The system includes a change of management application configured to store a list of tasks and a task notifier configured to retrieve a list of geographically-dispersed resources and notify selected ones of the geographically-dispersed resources of a priority of completion of one or more tasks retrieved from the change of management application. The system further includes a message application configured to be polled by the task notifier to determine which of the geographically dispersed resources is online or currently working.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving forecast information from sales people in a computer. The method further includes receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information from non-sales people in the computer. The method also includes receiving changes of the forecast information from the non-sales people in the computer. The method additionally includes providing a display of the comments and the changes to the sales people in an interface to the computer.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of recommending a production plan includes calculating a similarity score between an incoming order and each historical order in a historical order database, providing a list of most similar historical orders and corresponding historical production plans ranked according to highest similarity scores, receiving an election indicating a historical production plan as a selected production plan, and admitting the selected historical production plan to fulfill the incoming order.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for automatically generating a job quotation based on a photo image of a completed jobsite. The photo image is analyzed by an online financial application to identify material items used in the completed jobsite. Associated supplemental material items and installation labor hour information are then looked up from a community data repository where other business users have previously contributed relevant information. Accordingly, a quotation to install a jobsite using the material items found in the completed jobsite is generated based on the photo image and information retrieved from the community data repository.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with generating a price schedule are described. An inventory quantity for the item is allocated amongst a plurality of customer segments based on a predicted contribution of each customer segment to the objective function. For each customer segment, based on a quantity of inventory allocated to the customer segment, a promotion portion of the price schedule is determined that maximizes the objective function. Remaining inventory allocated to the plurality of customer segments at the end of the regular season is aggregated. Based on the aggregated inventory, a markdown portion of the price schedule for the item is determined that maximizes the objective function. The promotion portion and the markdown portion are combined to create a price schedule for the item. In one embodiment, a price schedule may be generated that includes promotions on top of markdown prices during the clearance season.

Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to estimating lifetime values, and more particularly to estimating Prospect Lifetime Values (PLTVs) for prospective customers for an organization. In one example, for estimating PLTV for a prospective customer, a distance of the prospective customer from each of existing customers of the organization is computed using existing customer data and prospective customer data. The existing customer data includes at least one of existing customer demographic variables and existing customer profile variables. Further, the prospective customer data includes at least one of prospective customer demographic variables and prospective customer profile variables. Subsequently, for the prospective customer, a pre-defined number of existing customers are determined from amongst the plurality of existing customers based on the distance. Thereafter, PLTV for the prospective customer is estimated using an average of Customer Lifetime Values (CLTVs) for the determined existing customers.

Abstract: A computerized method for providing a service is described. The method may instantiate an instance of a process object. The process object may be configured to manage two or more business process objects of one or more backend systems to provide the service. The service may be performed utilizing the process object.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides for a computer-implemented method for processing a secure facility resident request. The method includes accepting a request type selection by the secure facility resident, providing a request form corresponding to the request type, accepting input for the request form and routing the request form to secure facility staff for review. The method additionally includes routing the request form back to the secure facility resident if further information is required and if the further information is required, accepting the further information from the secure facility resident.

Abstract: A historical scenario and historical decisions made in the historical scenario are received. The historical decisions represent a set of decision variables of an objective function. A random set of decision variables having different values than the set of decision variables are generated. To determine a weight setting associated with multiple objectives of the objective function, a number of inequalities are built and solved with an assumption that, for an optimization that minimizes the objective function, the objective function having the set of random decision variables has a larger value than the objective function having the set of decision variables. The receiving, the generating and the building steps may be repeated to determine multiple sets of weight settings. The multiple sets of weight settings are searched to select a target weight setting for each of the multiple objectives. The target weight setting may be automatically and continuously learned.

Abstract: Approaches for displaying a user interface including a map based on interaction data are disclosed. A set of interaction data and can be acquired and stored in a data structure. This data can be associated with a plurality of consuming entities that may have purchased something during these interactions. A set of provisioning entities can be determined based on spending or purchasing habits of the consuming entities. Based on this set of provisioning entities, a user interface can be generated which may include various shapes similar to a heat map. These shapes can indicate an average amount spent in a particular neighborhood, among other attributes.

Abstract: A graphical workflow definition and management tool enables administrators and other authorized users to implement a workflow process that can be used to evaluate project submissions or other applications that require step-by-step process completion. The steps required to navigate through the workflow are first defined. Inputs, outputs, and actions, including conditional criteria, can be specified for the steps. The flow of control between the individual steps in the workflow is mapped out; changes to the status of a project submission can cause a submission to migrate to a succeeding step in the workflow. A “sandbox” testing environment allows changes to any aspect of the workflow to be safely evaluated without affecting live data. Conflicts between production and test workflows are identified and intelligently resolved.

Abstract: A system and method for on demand test drives that can include managing a set of vehicle and worker resources in a resource management system; monitoring user browsing patterns of a customer on an online vehicle marketplace; receiving a test drive request from the customer, the request specifying a requested vehicle and test drive location; retrieving test drive availability options from the resource management system; setting a test drive appointment for a selected test drive availability option; coordinating worker and vehicle transport to a scheduled location of the test drive appointment; and delivering vehicle information during the test drive appointment.

Abstract: Provided is an omni-channel marketing curation system based on big data including a data collecting unit configured to collect behavior log data of a customer in an online store and behavior log data of the customer who visits an offline store; a big data storing unit configured to process, in real time, the log data collected in the data collecting unit; a log verbalization converting unit configured to analyze the customer's online/offline behavior log data, convert the analyzed result into one of a plurality of pre-defined verbal expressions, which indicate degrees of customer's reactions to a product, to store the converted result in the big data storing unit; a first attribute setting unit configured to receive customer's attribute information from a system user so as to create a profile for a persona according to the attribute; a persona generating unit configured to group, into one persona, customers corresponding to the attribute information received by the first attribute setting unit, generate one o