Abstract: A system and control method of managing tasks and organizations is provided herein.

Abstract: Techniques for planning resources using block and route information are described. In an example, a computing system determines a demand for item transportation expected during a planning horizon. The computing system determines information about a pre-planned transportation resource available during the planning horizon and costs associated with the pre-planned transportation resource. The computing system uses an optimization model to determine a block having a time length, a tour to transport, during the block, a first portion of the demand using the pre-planned transportation resource, and a second portion of the demand to be transported using an on-demand transportation resource. The computing system indicates, to a first computing device of the pre-planned transportation resource, an assignment of the block to the pre-planned transportation resource.

Abstract: A computer implemented system, method, or computer readable medium for providing a visual interactive software tool that permits users to investigate and evaluate financial, trade, and business-related risks. An interactive tool is provided that can integrate front and back end capabilities to, for example, provide quick and efficient navigation to pertinent information in a visual workspace. The system, method, or computer readable medium can be configured to include a software engine that identifies corridors or other subgraph features in accordance with automated traversal based on a set of rules. The features can provide a notification and selective visual access to risk-related subgraphs based on topic, category, or sanctions as a virtual lens for the user in connection with a displayed node.

Abstract: A diagnostic system and method for troubleshooting an electronic system of a vehicle includes receiving a diagnostic trouble code set into a diagnostic system. The diagnostic trouble code set includes one or more diagnostic trouble codes. The method includes receiving diagnostic specifications. The diagnostic specifications associate connector pins and wires of the electronic system with possible diagnostic trouble codes. The method includes receiving wiring circuit specifications. The wiring circuit specifications associate wiring circuits of the electronic system with the connectors of the electronic system. The method includes determining a set of possible repair locations based on the diagnostic trouble code set, the diagnostic specifications, and the wiring circuit specifications, and displaying at least one possible repair location of the set of possible repair locations.

Abstract: A method for identifying, quantifying, classifying, and reducing resource waste in an organization is provided. The method includes: receiving a request from a user for identifying waste in a first software development project; identifying a set of tasks to be performed within the first software development project; determining, for each task, whether a waste of a resource such as cost and/or time has occurred; using Jira to tag each task for which a waste has been identified; and generating a report that indicates a result of the determination. The resulting report may be used to pinpoint a friction point within the organization.

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for tracking performance by monitoring and evaluating performance metrics on a repetitive basis to assign performance scores and incentivizing high performance by assigning awards to high performers. Multiple users may compete with one another for performance rankings and wager all or portions of award amount on their performance for future performance cycles to potentially increase future awards.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for efficiently outsourcing projects, such as software development projects, are presented. A business entity may precisely and succinctly define one or more requests for proposals (RFPs) using predefined service identifiers which specify discrete, short-term projects (e.g., 4 weeks or less) with fixed inputs and outputs and objective evaluation metrics which allow for each project to be evaluated using, for example, automated evaluation software tools. By posting RFPs on a web site, the business entity solicits bids from third party vendors to perform the project identified in the RFP. Since individual projects are identified with objective inputs, outputs, and evaluation metrics, vendors can bid on the project with minimal evaluation and speculation regarding the appropriate bidding price for the project.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a computer device capable of assessing, measuring, managing, and optimizing cyber risk. For example, certain embodiments described herein may guide risk assessment for individual organizations and for integrated elements of critical infrastructure. Certain embodiments may provide features that make it possible for policy makers and organizational leaders to assess a range of risks introduced by threat actors: a standardized system for classifying cyber threats and events by their effects, tools to associate organizational functions with information technology (IT) network maps or topologies, operations to assess the severity of disruptive and exploitative cyber events, and operations to understand the integrated nature of risk across different parts of a simple organization, across major divisions in a complex organization, or to display the interconnectedness of organizations in a complex system.

Abstract: A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.

Abstract: A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks.

Abstract: The field of the invention relates to methods, servers and computer program products for inferring which fare classes are available. There is provided a method of inferring fare class availability for a specific flight or flights by: (a) receiving observable, live bookable prices for that flight(s), in which that price information is not accompanied by complete fare class information for those flight(s); (b) comparing the observable, live bookable prices with a set of prices calculated from stored data, such as valid itinerary data, fare data such as FROP data, and tax/surcharge data; and (c) determining which fare class was used in the observable live bookable price by determining which fare class was used in the calculated price that matches most closely to the observable live bookable price.

Abstract: A human interaction replacement evaluation system analyzes actions taken by a user with an application on a client device that provides features to replace human interaction services with computer-based services. The results of the action provide an indication of the success of a particular action supported by the application (e.g., whether the action has a positive or negative effect on a key performance indicator) or an indication of how likely the user is to be ready to adopt a particular computer-based service. Recommendations are then provided to the user of the application or a manager of the application indicating actions to use, actions that have negative or positive effects on a key performance indicator, and so forth.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing the effectiveness of road maintenance efforts within a district is provided. Data obtained from roadway weather information stations and a traffic data monitoring system is gathered to determine when weather events begin and end based upon weather conditions and traffic information. The effectiveness of roadway maintenance efforts after the end of such weather event is determined.

Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.

Abstract: Online retailers may operate a network of computing systems in order to provide an electronic marketplace to customers. The network of computing systems may be responsible for maintaining and providing different data to the customers of the online retailer. When a customer transmits a request to the online retailer the request may be divided into a set of tasks that may be executed in parallel by the computing systems. The data generated by executing the various tasks may be cached for various periods of time. Furthermore, log information may be generated based at least in part on execution of the various tasks. The logs may record data on initial access along with an identifier associated with the cached data. For subsequent tasks requiring cached data the log may include only the identifier associated with the cached data.

Abstract: The present invention solves a very complex problem that is a major obstacles for electric utility industry's power lines vegetation encroachment management business. Vegetation contacts to the high voltage overhead power lines cause flash-over and/or blackout which results in hazardous situations and economic losses. Power line vegetation management is a very cost intensive business process which is essential to ensure safe, reliable and affordable electric energy supply by the electric utilities, transmission and generation owners. This routine electric utility vegetation management related work is mandated and overseen by applicable federal, state or local regulatory agencies. The state-of-the-art vegetation management process involves labor and cost intensive foot-patrol, vehicular patrol, air patrol and airborne LiDAR patrol of power lines. These methods are often inefficient, unreliable, risky and costly.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for digitally presenting statistically-relevant business insights into a set of business metrics for an organization. A computer system identifies a set of organizational characteristics from human resources data of employees of a plurality of organizations, and applies a selected inclusion criteria to the set of organizational characteristics to identify a set of candidate organizations. The computer system identifies a set of benchmark organizations from the set of candidate organizations, and creates a fixed panel of the benchmark organizations. The computer system applies the fixed panel to the human resources data of employees of a plurality of organizations to create an analysis dataset that consists of human resources data of employees of the benchmark organizations. The computer system generates a business insight into the set of business metrics of the organization based on the analysis dataset, and digitally presents the business insight.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture to model ecommerce sales are disclosed. A system to model to eCommerce sales includes a trend identifier to compute commerce metric differences corresponding to products, the commerce metric differences based on first commerce metrics scraped at a first time and second commerce metrics scraped at a second time, a splitter to split the commerce metric differences into a first portion of the commerce metric differences corresponding to a first dataset of eCommerce cooperators, and into a second portion of the commerce metric differences corresponding to a second dataset of eCommerce non-cooperators, a machine learning engine to infer sales data by estimating eCommerce non-cooperators sales based on the second portion of the commerce metric differences, and a sales allocator to estimate sales missing from collected sales data based on the estimate eCommerce non-cooperators sales.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for establishment and dynamic adjustment of control parameters associated with resource distribution. The present invention may be configured to determine, based on historical data of resource distributions, suggested control parameters for resource distributions associated with a source associated with a user and provide the suggested control parameters to the user. The present invention may be configured to receive, after providing the suggested control parameters to the user, user input identifying user-defined control parameters. The present invention may be configured to receive a request to authorize a resource distribution, determine, based on the user-defined control parameters, whether the resource distribution is permitted, and authorize, based on determining that the resource distribution is permitted, the resource distribution.

Abstract: A plant assistance assessment system 100 that assesses a plurality of nuclear power generation plants 110 includes an abnormality sign monitoring system 121 that monitors an abnormality sign in a plant, based on plant data of the nuclear power generation plants; a fault diagnosis system 122 that performs fault diagnosis on each of devices in the plants, based on abnormality sign detection information; a progress prediction system 123 that simulates progress of the plants, based on fault information; an abnormal phenomenon specification system 124 that specifies a potential abnormal phenomenon in the plants, based on progress prediction information; a risk assessment system 125 that assesses a risk of a fault in the devices in the plants in a probabilistic manner; and an abnormal phenomenon assessment system 126 that assesses likelihood of occurrence of an abnormal phenomenon, based on abnormal phenomenon information and fault probability information.