Abstract: A preprocessor translates problem descriptions in text format to a numeric form, usable by a neural network. Problem descriptions and associated solutions are used as training sets for the neural network. From a word domain collected from a number of problem descriptions, each character used in the problem domain is assigned a character frequency value. These frequency values are used to translate each problem description to an input vector, where each input value represents a character and each input value is associated with an input node of the neural network. In addition to being associated with a frequency value, each character is scaled and normalized to improve accuracy of the neural network's recall capabilities.

Abstract: A computer based pharmaceutical care cognitive services management system and method allows the transformation of a pharmacist from a vendor to a health care provider. The pharmaceutical care cognitive services management system and method captures all of the value added by a pharmacist to a patient encounter by permitting multiple RARs (Reasons, Actions, Results) to be associated with a single SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan). This system enables the pharmacist to financially recover for each analytical or counseling session and/or service provided to the user associated with a single transaction. The pharmaceutical care cognitive services management system and method also enables the efficient processing of interruptions to cognitive and counseling sessions.

Abstract: On knowledge information processing and especially in a plan making system such as a system for generating schedule diagrams of trains and personnel, it becomes necessary to make or modify a plan by using a plurality of work stations when the plan becomes large-sized. At this time, the work stations are provided with equal plan making function. Thus, the work stations can divide planning responsibilities. Further, work stations are provided with priorities. Thus, management of competition among a plurality of work stations is facilitated and overhead caused by communication among a plurality of devices is reduced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for aggregating terminals into clusters that assists in the construction of a distributed data communication network. Terminal locations to be clustered are used as input along with a weight for each one representing the traffic carried by that location. The terminals are placed into boxes based on their geographic coordinates and only boxes with substantial traffic are retained. Any terminals included in a box not retained are assigned to the closest retained box. The retained boxes are merged into clusters so long as the maximum cluster traffic and maximum cluster radius are not exceeded. The center of mass of the resulting clusters are then determined. The representative locations of the resulting clusters are determined as the location of the terminal in the cluster closest to the center of mass.

Abstract: A method and system for selectively targeting advertisements and programming to different demographically and specially targeted television audiences by relating carrier subscriber data to other proprietary marketing databases by creating, compiling and updating a National Directory of cable and other carrier system subscriber names and address information derived from actual cable system and telephone company billing records; providing proprietary software to participating carrier systems to allow them to modify the subscriber records in a uniform fashion at the carrier system level using unique electronic address designations, by encoding the subscriber information into encoded binary streams using proprietary binary conversion rules and binary signatures assigned to the carrier systems, and changing the conversion rules, signatures and their carrier designations for security on a monthly basis when the National Directory is updated; licensing the Directory to qualified data processing companies or their cl