Abstract: A vehicle dispatch service boarding location determination method uses a vehicle dispatch information data server and a terminal to determine a boarding location for a dispatched vehicle based on a vehicle dispatch request from the terminal. When there is a vehicle dispatch request, position information of a vehicle dispatch request point is acquired. Boarding location candidates present in a periphery of the vehicle dispatch request point are calculated based on the position information point and map information. A boarding location recognition difficulty, which is a difficulty for the user in recognizing the boarding location candidate as a boarding location, is calculated for each of the boarding location candidates. A boarding location candidate for which the boarding location recognition difficulty is low among the boarding location candidates is determined as the boarding location where the user will be picked up by the dispatched vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes computer implemented techniques for providing a survey to a user. In one embodiment, a software application receives an audio stream including utterances spoken by the user interacting with a voice-user interface of the application. The application then determines a set of paralinguistic features from the audio stream and estimates at least a first attribute of the user based on the set of paralinguistic features. The application selects survey content based on a value of the first attribute and transmits a survey including the selected survey content to the user.

Abstract: A system and method for workforce scheduling using dynamic capacity ranges are provided. A capacity model associates distances of locations within a service area from a depot with a series of appointment time windows such that appointment time windows having a relatively greater amount of available worker capacity are associated with a greater range of distances than appointment time windows having a relatively smaller amount of available worker capacity. After a distance from the depot to a location of an appointment to be scheduled is determined, appointment time window suggestions are automatically produced based on which appointment time windows as defined in the capacity model are associated with the location of the appointment to be scheduled. As capacity changes due to bookings, the capacity model is dynamically updated. A system and method for workforce routing, based at least in part on using dynamic capacity ranges, are also provided.

Abstract: A resource reservation system includes a terminal apparatus including first circuitry; and an information processing apparatus including second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, a request for a start of use of a resource, using an identification information of a user of the terminal apparatus. The second circuitry is configured to: in response to receiving the request for the start of use, in a case in which the identification information of the user is included in next reservation information after a time when the request is received and the resource is not reserved for the time when the request is received, advance a start time of a reservation of the next reservation information after the time when the request is received; and permit the start of use of the resource identified by the next reservation information in which the start time is advanced.

Abstract: Methods and system for securing delivery of a parcel when an intended recipient is unavailable, comprising at least one storage receptacle having an electronically controlled locking mechanism, the storage receptacle comprising an interface for receiving an access code for facilitating unlocking of the storage receptacle, a wireless communication radio, and a processor. The system further comprises a remote service manager comprising an access code generator and a wireless communication radio for transmitting an access code to a mobile computing device operated by a delivery carrier.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for maximizing saturation of two different sets of actors performing different sets of dependent operations at different rates over different but overlapping periods of time in a non-conflicting manner. The systems and methods may include transferring a first set of ordered items from item storage to item cache locations at a first rate during a first period of time, and fulfilling orders at a faster second rate over a later second period of time by picking items from a first set of the item cache locations at the second rate, and by replacing items at a non-overlapping second set of the item cache locations at the first rate. The transferring is commenced before the picking to create a buffer that allows a first set of actors, operating at the first rate, to continually provide the dependencies needed for a second set of actors to operate at the faster second rate without conflict and with each set of actors operating at their respective maximum rates.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of automated warehousing, and relates to an inventory scheduling method and device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method of the present disclosure includes: obtaining an order to be picked, the order to be picked comprising a kind(s) of goods to be picked; determining order processing capability information of each of a plurality of picking workstations, according to at least one of position distribution information of a rack(s) storing at least one kind of the goods to be picked relative to each of the picking workstations, position distribution information of an available transfer machine(s) relative to each of the picking workstations, or load information of each of the picking workstation; and allocating the order to be picked to one of the picking workstations according to the order processing capability information of each of the picking workstations.

Abstract: A tire inventory decision support system (100) optimizes tire allocations across a plurality of trade areas for local tire dealers, as well as regional trade areas for tire repositories as regional fulfillment hubs. The system defines trade areas having demographic tire demand characteristics and corresponding to an available inventory population for respective dealers. For each trade area, optimal dealer inventory populations are projected for tire sizes and brands, based in part on the available inventory population for the dealer an actual inventory population for the associated tire repository. The system compares the optimal inventory population for each dealer to actual inventory population, and selectively generates dealer interfaces displaying recommendations for tire inventory modification based on value propositions as disparities between the optimal and actual inventory populations.

Abstract: A store fulfillment manager (SFM) system provides fulfillment of orders from inventory in a retail store. An ingestion layer ingests orders published by an order management system (OMS.) The OMS publishes the orders to the SFM system. A fulfillment database is used, into which the ingestion layer publishes the orders to be fulfilled from the retail store, the fulfillment database being dynamically updated to include the current orders that are available for processing and fulfillment. An SFM application programming interface (API) is configured to interface with multiple different store-based fulfillment systems. An internal workflow processor is configured to monitor the status of order fulfillment by the SFM and to publish status information to the OMS.

Abstract: A method and system for assigning and tracking progress of action items in a review meeting comprises extracting action items from a meeting document during the review meeting once the review meeting is initiated between the reviewee and the reviewer. The method comprises identifying reviewee content and reviewer content by using feature extraction technique on audio snippets spoken by the reviewee and the reviewer during the review meeting. The method further comprises determining whether the review meeting is a first meeting or a subsequent meeting, between the reviewee and the reviewer, for discussing the action items extracted from the meeting document. Based on the determination, action items for reviewee and reviewer are assigned and the status of the previously assigned action items of reviewee and previously assigned action items of reviewer are tracked.

Abstract: A system for cognitive prioritization for report generation may include a processor and a memory cooperating therewith. The processor may be configured to accept a request for a new report from a user, the request having a user profile importance associated therewith and generate a predicted completion time for the new report based upon a historical completion time prediction model based upon historical data for prior reports. The processor may be configured to generate a predicted importance of the new report based upon a historical importance prediction model based upon the historical data for prior reports and determine a combined predicted importance based upon the user profile importance and the predicted importance. The processor may also be configured to generate a prioritization of the new report among other reports based upon the predicted completion time and the combined predicted importance and generate the new report based upon the prioritization.

Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating entities involved in a construction project. One system includes a server that has access to a plurality of events associated with a construction project, including completion events and accounting events. The server communicates with a computing device over a network connection and includes a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive a triggering event selected by a first entity and automatically identify when the plurality of events includes the selected triggering event. When the selected triggering event is included in the plurality of events, the processing unit is configured to automatically prompt a user to complete an evaluation for a second entity, receive the completed evaluation from the user, and make an aggregation of the completed evaluation available to the first entity, the second entity, and a third entity.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying and evaluating risk alerts are provided. Aspects include receiving risk alert data comprising risk alerts from data sources, obtaining, by the processor, client geographical data comprising one or more locations of interest, wherein the one or more locations of interest comprise infrastructure resource for the client, determining one or more trusted data sources that are most relevant to define an impact of one or more risk events from the risk alert data affecting one or more locations of interest for the client based on the risk alert data and the client geographical data, determining impactful risk events that affect locations of interest for the client based on trusted risk alert data from the trusted data sources and the client geographical data, and displaying the trusted data sources, the one or more impactful risk events, and the one or more locations.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for predicting revenue change in a ledger including receiving, by a processor device, revenue data with timestamps for a number of historical periods at a particular level, with attributes of the particular level and a percentage of the required revenue change. The data is filtered. The filtered data is aggregated at the particular level for a selected prediction. A sliding window of the number of historical periods is moved over business periods, creating a data point for each historical period temporal window by extracting features. A required target output is created for each data point for at least one future time period. A statistical classification model is trained to predict the revenue change. A set of recent histories is converted into a quantitative health value.

Abstract: One embodiment provides optimizing predictive precision for actionable forecasts of revenue change including receiving revenue data with timestamps for a number of historical periods at a particular level, with attributes of the particular level and a percentage of the required revenue change. The data is filtered. The filtered data is aggregated at the particular level for a selected prediction. A sliding window of the number of historical periods is moved over business periods, creating a data point for each historical period temporal window by extracting features. A required target output is created for each data point for at least one future time period. A model is trained to optimize predictive precision for actionable forecasts of revenue change. A set of recent histories is converted into a quantitative health value.

Abstract: One embodiment provides optimizing potential revenue savings when predicting client revenue change including receiving revenue data with timestamps for a number of historical periods at a particular level, with attributes of the particular level and a percentage of the required revenue change. The data is filtered. The filtered data is aggregated at the particular level for a selected prediction. A sliding window of the number of historical periods is moved over business periods, creating a data point for each historical period temporal window by extracting features. A required target output is created for each data point for at least one future time period. A weight is assigned to each data point proportional to value of revenue. A model is trained to optimize a weighted linear combination of losses over each data point. A set of recent histories is converted into a quantitative health value.

Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems of prioritizing retrieval of products from a plurality of bins at a retail sales facility are described. The methods include receiving an identification of a product being binned at a retail sales facility, then determining the size of the product, and then ranking the products in the bins based on the time stamp of a time of binning of the product. The physical size of the product and the ranking of the product are correlated to a size of the bins to determine the relative physical locations of the products in the bins. A pick of a product from a bin is generated based on a determination that the location of the product to be picked in one of the bins is higher than a location of at least one identical product in at least another one of the bins.

Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems of determining whether to purge a bin in order to pick a product from the bin in a stock room of a retail sales facility include processing of bin purge factors associated with the bin and correlating the processed bin purge factors with bin purge threshold values associated with the bin. Based on whether the value of one or more of the bin purge factors meets or exceeds a threshold value that supports the purging of a bin, an indication to a worker at the retail sales facility is generated as to whether that bin is to be purged or not.

Abstract: A system for mobile communication device upgrade delivery and configuration. The system comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a business process management application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application receives a message from a device upgrade client application executing on a mobile communication device requesting an upgrade mobile communication device, accesses data associated with the mobile communication device requesting the upgrade device stored in an interaction history data store, and analyzes the data accessed from the interaction history data store. The business process management application further, based on the analysis of the data and based on the model of upgrade device, recommends pick-up of the upgrade device in a retail store, identifies a retail store, and sends a recommendation message to the device upgrade client application that the upgrade mobile communication device be picked up at the retail store.