Abstract: Techniques for allocating work requests to performing centers include generating options for assigning the work requests to the performing centers. The options are based upon predetermined historical factors capturing work request characteristics and performing center characteristics. For each of the options, the work requests are scheduled to determine a corresponding duration of the work requests, and an overall cost is computed. One of the options is selected based on the overall cost and the corresponding duration.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product and data processing system, for identifying common structures shared across a plurality of formatted text documents. The common structure is presented as a sequence of landmarks, each of which has a starting and ending marker to describe the borders of text. The common structure is identified by counting the occurrences of repeating text segments across documents. Frequently co-occurred adjacent segments become candidates for markers of landmarks. In addition, styling information of textual content within a landmark is extracted and mapped to rules. The rules are used to merge and summarize content from multiple documents, which gives an advantage over current practice of content concatenation.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for selecting a subset of at least one traffic sensor. The method includes modeling multiple sensor types to generate at least one sensor model, creating a sample space of at least one sensor combination of multiple sensors, modeling traffic movement of a region, running a traffic simulation based on the at least one sensor model, the sample space of at least one sensor combination and traffic movement of the region, wherein the traffic simulation generates multiple candidate sets of sensors, and selecting a subset of the multiple sensors based on the multiple candidate sets of sensors.

Abstract: A method for selecting a subset of at least one traffic sensor includes modeling multiple sensor types to generate at least one sensor model, creating a sample space of at least one sensor combination of multiple sensors, modeling traffic movement of a region, running a traffic simulation based on the at least one sensor model, the sample space of at least one sensor combination and traffic movement of the region, wherein the traffic simulation generates multiple candidate sets of sensors, and selecting a subset of the multiple sensors based on the multiple candidate sets of sensors.

Abstract: Deploying artifacts and tools in cloud computing environment for provisioning packaged software applications generates a user interface code automatically and dynamically using information from at least structural data representations of cloud computing environment and base configuration requirements for running one or more packaged software applications in the cloud computing environment. In one aspect, the automatically generated code may be augmented using one or more library codes and auxiliary files. Specific configuration requirements are further obtained by running the automatically generated user interface code. One or more components to deploy in the cloud computing environment are determined that meet the base configuration requirements and the specific configuration requirements, by analyzing the structural data representations.

Abstract: A harvesting method and system is provided. The method includes extracting from a plurality of documents, content. The content is published in external glossaries. The content is arranged in a business content hierarchy and the business content hierarchy is published in a specified format. The business content hierarchy is enabled with respect to a plurality of projects. The content and business content hierarchy are updated and the updated content is arranged in the updated business content hierarchy.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer program product and data processing system, for identifying common structures shared across a plurality of formatted text documents. The common structure is presented as a sequence of landmarks, each of which has a starting and ending marker to describe the borders of text. The common structure is identified by counting the occurrences of repeating text segments across documents. Frequently co-occurred adjacent segments become candidates for markers of landmarks. In addition, styling information of textual content within a landmark is extracted and mapped to rules. The rules are used to merge and summarize content from multiple documents, which gives an advantage over current practice of content concatenation.

Abstract: A method, computer System and computer program product for generating ontological information from design data are disclosed. The design data has a plurality of classes, the classes having at least one association with another class. The design data is processed on the basis of rules to identify environmental artifacts. The design data is processed on the basis of rules to identify implementation artifacts. All classes that are implementation artifacts are eliminated from the design data. New associations for non-eliminated design data that have broken class associations as a result of the elimination are established. The design data remaining following the elimination is processed to preserve environmental artifact relationships between the retained classes to generate an ontology.

Abstract: Methods and arrangements for accommodating and synthesizing data for seeking broad-based solutions to complex problems. Logical models with respect to infrastructure in a first location are created. System-level models are created with respect to the logical models, and simulations are performed on the system-level models to verify expected behavior. Feedback is employed from the performed simulations to forecast changes in the system-level models.

Abstract: Harvesting assets for packaged application practices, in one aspect, may include obtaining one or more work products associated with deployment of packaged software applications, extracting content and style, enhancing content and style with models of work products, and storing assets in asset repository.

Abstract: Methods and arrangements for employing roadside acoustics sensing in ascertaining traffic density states. Traffic monitoring input is received from a road segment, the traffic monitoring input including traffic audio input. The traffic monitoring input is processed and the processed traffic monitoring input is classified with a predetermined traffic density state. The classified traffic monitoring input is combined with other classified traffic monitoring input.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a method of organizing assets having artifacts in a repository. The method begins by organizing artifacts of at least one of the assets as internal nodes in a graph based on a context. The method simultaneously organizes the assets as external nodes in the graph based on the context. The internal nodes comprise artifacts having metadata that is updated by an artifact producer and/or an asset producer. Moreover, the external nodes comprise artifacts that are defined and/or updated by roles other than an artifact producer and/or an asset producer.

Abstract: A method of operationalizing service methodologies useable for a computerized environment is provided. The method includes the following stages: capturing a method to yield a workflow, work products and template structure; extracting structure and relations from at least one of: the templates, actual work products, workflow, and human experts; modeling the captured structure to yield a method model; augmenting the method-model using the extracted structure and relations, to yield an augmented method-model, such that the augmented method-model provides sufficient data for automatically generating a software application implementing a runtime environment that supports the method.

Abstract: A plurality of sources are registered. A plurality of schemas are constructed, based on the plurality of sources. A desired output is obtained as a conjunctive query. A list of potential connections between at least selected ones of the sources is provided. A plurality of join plans are developed, based on the connections.

Abstract: Systems and associated methods for utilizing crowdsourcing probes to obtain traffic information are described. Such traffic information includes location, date, time, speed, and speed limit information. Embodiments allow for the determination of traffic intensity, or road congestion, through the calculation of a road speed capacity factor. Embodiments provide that the traffic information and traffic intensity information may be visualized through a user interface.

Abstract: Methods and arrangements for document quality assessment. Documents are accepted and a quality specification containing predetermined quality criteria is assimilated. Each document is assessed based on the predetermined quality criteria, and a quality score is assigned to each document, the quality score being a function of positive and negative attributes assessed for each document.

Abstract: Reports to manage service projects may be generated by an automatically generated project report generator software tool. The project report generator software tool is automatically created from an object-based model of work products in a project, wherein the object-based model is executable by a machine and comprises a plurality of work product object and a recording of at least some relationships between the object, wherein each work product object represents a document that contains information about the service project. One or more reports can be generated by the project report generator software tool during the lifetime of the service project, wherein the report is generated using the object-based model and at least some of the information in documents represented in the object-based model.

Abstract: Systems and associated methods for automated and semi-automated building of domain models for documents are described. Embodiments provide an approach to discover an information model by mining documentation about a particular domain captured in the documents. Embodiments classify the documents into one or more types corresponding to concepts using indicative words, identify candidate model elements (concepts) for document types, identify relationships both within and across document types, and consolidate and learn a global model for the domain.

Abstract: A plurality of sources are registered. A plurality of schemas are constructed, based on the plurality of sources. A desired output is obtained as a conjunctive query. A list of potential connections between at least selected ones of the sources is provided. A plurality of join plans are developed, based on the connections.

Abstract: An interactive design of process model for packaged application software installation and configuration generates a process model from a natural language description of software installation or configuration related operation. A data structure representing one or more work products related to the process model is identified, and one or more elements of the data structure are identified that are related to one or more sub-processes of the process model. Input information associated with said one or more sub-processes is captured and stored. The input information is linked with the one or more elements of the data structure related to said one or more sub-processes. The one or more sub-processes in the process model may be also demonstrated through a simulation.