Abstract: A managing method of an electronic component mounting system having a plurality of production lines, the method including: preferentially allocating a job group having the latest scheduled finish time among a plurality of job groups, to one of the plurality of production lines. The allocating includes (1) specifying the scheduled finish time with respect to all of the combinations between unallocated job groups among the plurality of job groups and the plurality of production lines, (2) specifying the earliest scheduled finish time from the scheduled finish time specified for each production line, and the production line thereof, with respect to each of the unallocated job groups, and (3) allocating the job group related to the latest scheduled finish time among the earliest scheduled finish time specified for each unallocated job group, to the production line thereof.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards to managing operations for an organization. An operation engine may be employed to provide operations metrics based on events and resolution actions associated with an incident. Update information may be provided to console modules included in operations command consoles (OCCs) each console module may include module views. The console modules may be employed to provide data objects to the module views. The module views may be employed to provide different visualizations of the incident based on a role that may be associated with the console modules. An OCC may be employed to provide other resolution actions to the operations engine and then that operations engine may provide additional update information to the console modules based on the other resolution actions.

Abstract: A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by a user. The opinion can be interesting to an information consumer, for determining the outcome of the consensus relating to the event or observation, or for performing surveillance or survey of a particular issue or subject. Such recognition of early events or observations can be useful in different areas, such as healthcare, finance, etc., where initial observations, if provided early, allow resulting decisions to be made much earlier. The opinion can, for instance, be used as an early indicator of problem with a product, company, etc. that would permit an information consumer to perform an action at a much earlier point than if he/she relied on traditional sources of information. Thus, such opinion information can be invaluable as a tool for monitoring events.

Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention provide a method, a system, and a computer readable medium for integrating business and fitness tasks and providing a plan of some type to users in some manner. The tasks may include fitness data collected by fitness tools. The tasks may further include business data collected by business tools. Embodiments of the invention analyze the fitness data and the business data of the user to produce a plan. The plan may include recommendations and/or insights regarding any pending and/or completed tasks of the user. The plan may further include notifications and results. The notifications may also include recommendations and/or insights regarding any pending and/or completed tasks and/or results that may be presented to the user. The notifications and/or results may include vocal, audible, graphical, tabular, and/or textual data describing the user's activity.

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing assistance in scheduling a plurality of tasks pertaining to a project are described. The method may include obtaining information pertaining to each of the plurality of tasks associated with the project for scheduling execution of the plurality of tasks. Further, the method may include computing a certainty index and a controllability index for each of the plurality of tasks. The certainty index and the controllability index is computed based on corresponding certainty scores and controllability scores determined for each of the plurality of tasks. The method also includes distributing the plurality of tasks into quadrants based on a threshold value determined for the certainty index and the controllability index. In addition, the method may include generating a sequence of execution of the plurality of tasks of the project based on the division of the tasks.

Abstract: In an energy-saving-operation recommending system, a total energy consumption of plural facilities during passage of one material to be rolled through a rolling line is calculated, and the total energy consumption is divided by a width and a length of the material to be rolled before rolling to calculate an energy consumption reference value that defines energy consumption per unit width and unit length of the material to be rolled. The energy consumption reference value is stored in association with a steel grade and a target post-rolling plate thickness of the material to be rolled. An energy consumption reference value corresponding to a steel grade and a target post-rolling plate thickness of a material to be next rolled on the rolling line is obtained. The energy consumption reference value is multiplied by a width and a length of the material to be next rolled to calculate predicted energy consumption.

Abstract: Shopping patterns for a customer with respect to a particular product that is repeatedly purchased by the customer with a given frequency are recognized across multiple communication channels by mining transaction histories for the customer over each of the channels. The shopping patterns are processed on a per-communication channel basis for making recommendations, providing reminders, and/or providing default shopping lists on behalf of the customer.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided, in a hierarchical feedback aggregation (HFA) system implemented in one or more data processing systems, for collecting and presenting user feedback information for a composite offering. A backend engine of the HFA system, implemented in a first data processing system, registers a hierarchical feedback model for the composite offering. A frontend engine of the HFA system, implemented in a second data processing system, receives user feedback for an identified component of the composite offering. The backend engine of the HFA system generates an aggregate user feedback score for the identified component based on a combination of the user feedback for the identified component and aggregate user feedback scores for child components of the identified component in the hierarchical feedback model. The backend engine outputs a representation of the generated aggregate user feedback score for the component to a user.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving management and performance of an employee. An indication of a goal sponsored by an owner, such as a manager, is received. After receiving an indication of a user subscribing to the goal sponsored by the owner, communications (e.g., posts) on the social network involving the subscribed user that include a tag designating the goal may be monitored. Upon detecting a completion of the goal by the subscribed user in the monitored communications, a pattern of steps (e.g., “prepare,” “review” and “finish”) to accomplish the goal is determined based on the monitored communications. The pattern may then be used to recommend actions to other users subscribed to the goal concerning accomplishing the goal based on the pattern. Furthermore, the owner may receive indications as to the progress of the user in accomplishing the goal based on the pattern.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide customer partiality vectorization refinement systems, comprising: a customer database storing a set of multiple customer partiality vectors for each of multiple different customers; a product database storing a set of multiple product partiality vectors for each of multiple different products; and a vectorized refinement control circuit configured to: identify, for a first customer, a multi-dimensional partiality vector target area defined by a limited range of partiality magnitudes and limited range of representative partiality directions; select a first product having at least a product partiality vector that is within a threshold alignment with the partiality vector target area, and cause the first product to be presented to the first customer; receive feedback associated with the first customer and corresponding to the first product; and adjust the partiality vector target area based on the feedback.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving management and performance of an employee. An indication of a goal sponsored by an owner, such as a manager, is received. After receiving an indication of a user subscribing to the goal sponsored by the owner, communications (e.g., posts) on the social network involving the subscribed user that include a tag designating the goal may be monitored. Upon detecting a completion of the goal by the subscribed user in the monitored communications, a pattern of steps (e.g., “prepare,” “review” and “finish”) to accomplish the goal is determined based on the monitored communications. The pattern may then be used to recommend actions to other users subscribed to the goal concerning accomplishing the goal based on the pattern. Furthermore, the owner may receive indications as to the progress of the user in accomplishing the goal based on the pattern.

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein score leads by determining and applying a scoring rule based on lead participation in an activity. This involves a processor of a computing device receiving information on participation in the activity by prior leads that resulted in conversions or rejections. A scoring rule is determined for the activity by assigning a score to the activity based on the information on participation in the activity by the prior leads that resulted in the conversions or the rejections. A new lead is scored using the scoring rule by assigning the new lead the score based on participation by the new lead in the activity. The scoring of the new lead can be used in various ways. In one example, the score of the new lead is used to determine to send a communication to the new lead.

Abstract: A method for conversion attribution. The method includes obtaining a first identifier associated with a first device, obtaining a second identifier associated with a second device, bridging the first identifier and the second identifier based on a determination, made by a probabilistic classifier, that the first identifier and the second identifier are associated with a common user, and attributing, using the bridge, a conversion on a website accessed using the second device.

Abstract: A device may provide a user interface for receiving a set of project variables for a replacement project. The device may receive the set of project variables for the replacement project via the user interface. The replacement project may include a decision regarding replacing a product. The device may determine a set of deployment strategies associated with the replacement project based on the set of project variables. Each deployment strategy, in the set of deployment strategies, may be associated with a type of replacement, a timeframe for deployment of the type of replacement, and a geographical scope for deployment of the type of replacement. The device may determine a set of end-to-end cost scores for the set of deployment strategies. The device may provide information identifying a deployment strategy of the set of deployment strategies based on the set of end-to-end cost scores for the set of deployment strategies.

Abstract: Methods, articles, and systems for determining a bidding strategy for on-line query answer set or contextual advertisement positions for marketing options is described herein.

Abstract: A method and system for operating an enterprise in accordance with an optimized enterprise level business model. A model optimization engine is iteratively processed based on an updated benchmark value and model, until updating the benchmark value involves changing the benchmark value by less than a predetermined benchmark value error threshold to generate the optimized enterprise-level business model. The enterprise is operated in accordance with the optimized enterprise-level business model, including: generating and dynamically displaying real-time performance measures of usage of a computer resource during execution of a business process, determining from the performance measures that the computer resource is a bottleneck, and the computer resource's usage is optimized using the performance measures to reduce data throughput delay and increase throughput of bottleneck operations during execution of the business process.

Abstract: An asset management system is provided which comprises one or more controllers, which operate as main servers and can be located at the headquarters of an electronic device manufacturer to remotely control their operations at any global location. The controller can communicate remotely over the Internet or other network to control one or more secondary or remote servers, herein referred to as appliances. The appliances can be situated at different manufacturing, testing or distribution sites. The controller and appliances comprise hardware security modules (HSMs) to perform sensitive and high trust computations, store sensitive information such as private keys, perform other cryptographic operations, and establish secure connections between components. The HSMs are used to create secure end-points between the controller and the appliance and between the appliance and the secure point of trust in an asset control core embedded in a device.

Abstract: A management system, includes: a first detection unit configured to detect position information of a first haul machine configured to travel along a haul road that leads to a loading area of a mine; a second detection unit configured to detect position information of a second haul machine configured to travel along the haul road; and a processing device configured to receive a detection result from each of the first detection unit and the second detection unit, wherein the processing device is configured to determine that the second haul machine arrives at an entrance of the loading area when the second haul machine arrives at a position behind the first haul machine that is in a standby state at the entrance based on the detection results.

Abstract: Identifying one or more patterns of content consumption across multiple entities and determining an engagement action for a user of an entity based on the patterns may include receiving information associated with content, cross-industry user data associated with consumption of the content, and a given organization user data associated with consumption of the content. A first set of consumption profile vectors associated with the given organization and one or more second set of consumption profile vectors associated respectively with one or more cross-industry organizations may be generated. Information associated with a target user in the given organization may be received. A customized learning plan for the target user in the given organization may be generated based on the first set of consumption profile vectors, the one or more second set of consumption profile vectors, and the information associated with the target user.

Abstract: Confidence of attentiveness of a consumer of a media object on a media playback device is estimated by monitoring for a user action performed on a mobile computing device while the media objects are being played back; responsive to a user action, retrieving descriptors for the media object; computing a relevance of the detected user action and the descriptors using correlation; if sufficiently correlated, determining a degree of confidence that the user is attentive to the media object; and recording the one user action, the media object descriptors, and the degree of confidence into digital results for reporting and usage by other devices and processes to improve viewership, readership, and listenership measurements.