Abstract: A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification and information retrieval. One example may include one or more of identifying a potential transaction during a transaction commitment procedure, retrieving committed transactions associated with an account, determining a priority associated with the potential transaction, determining a priority of data associated with the committed transactions, comparing the priority associated with the potential transaction with the priority of data associated with the committed transactions, and determining whether to commit the potential transaction in a blockchain or reject the potential transaction.

Abstract: A method for eliminating metal composites from a polycrystalline silicon cell piece, comprising the steps of: injecting current into the polycrystalline silicon cell piece under a certain temperature by means of an electric injection method, thereby eliminating the metal composites from the interior of the polycrystalline silicon cell piece; the present invention discloses a simple process, a short processing-time, a low manufacturing cost, and can easily be scaled for manufacture.

Abstract: The functions and capabilities of a computer are improved by programming the computer to provide market demand forecasts for a new product that are more accurate than forecasts generated using conventional approaches. A demand forecast for a new product is generated by pairing or associating a set of one or more existing products with the new product, receiving historical sales data for the existing product, separating the historical sales data into a plurality of discrete components, constructing a respective feature-based predictive model for each of corresponding components of the plurality of discrete components, generating a corresponding prediction from each respective feature-based predictive model for each of the plurality of discrete components, and aggregating each corresponding prediction for each of the plurality of discrete components to generate the demand forecast for the new product.

Abstract: According to the technical solution of an embodiment of the present invention, since content information is transmitted synchronously with the program scene, within the broadcast stream of data, media data, for example, advertisements, which may be of interest to the user, can be analyzed by selecting scenes at a granular level from the broadcast information. In one regard, the selected scene is being played currently, enhancing the relevance of the real-time analysis. In another regard, selecting a reduced granularity avoids statistical information overshadowing individual information. In this way, the accuracy of selecting media data with respect to a current user is improved.

Abstract: A method for encoding dot-matrix product information method includes identifying, via a processor, a dot-matrix grid size. The method further includes evaluating, via the processor, one or more dot pattern variation levels. In some aspects, the method includes retrieving, via the processor, an encoding structure indicative of a plurality of product information attributes. The method also includes determining, via the processor, whether an alpha-numeric digit at a dot pattern variation level can include a plurality of product information. The method further includes outputting, via the processor, a dot pattern code map. In some aspects, the dot pattern code map is indicative of a relationship between each of the product information attributes and the plurality of values for each of the product information attributes.

Abstract: A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification. One example method of operation may comprise one or more of identifying a production date associated with a product, creating a unique code to represent the production date and the product based on a hash of one or more blocks of a blockchain, and forwarding the unique code to a verification server to verify the product.

Abstract: A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties.

Abstract: Technical solutions are described for improving a data-mining process for identifying a desired population of a dataset. An example computer-implemented method includes, receiving the dataset that includes a plurality of data dimensions. The method also includes determining a set of predictors for a target variable, where a predictor is a data dimension that is relevant to the target variable. The method also includes identifying from the set of predictors, a false predictor, where the false predictor is a data dimension that results in an empty set of the desired population. The method also includes removing the false predictor from the set of predictors used for the data-mining process for identifying the desired population of the dataset.

Abstract: A method for generating cube metadata based on an enhanced star schema may be provided. In some embodiments, the method may include extracting dimension references from a factless fact table in an enhanced star schema. The enhanced star schema may include a fact table, a plurality of dimension tables of the fact table and the factless fact table. In some embodiments, a hierarchy reference may be constructed based on the dimension references. In some embodiments, cube metadata may be generated by combining the hierarchy reference with measures obtained from the fact table and a hierarchy obtained from the dimension tables in the enhanced star schema.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may track a user's interaction trajectory associated with a problem occurred on a website. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an interaction history of interactions between a user and a website may be obtained. An action description associated with actions performed by a user on a website is received. Then, at least one interaction matching the action description is retrieved from an interaction history of interactions between the user and the website. Further, an interaction trajectory may be generated based on the retrieved at least one interaction.

Abstract: In one example, a computer-implemented method includes evaluating pairwise relationships between pairs of business process models stored in a repository, constructing a network that encodes the pairwise relationships, and calculating a score for each of the plurality of business process models by traversing the network, wherein the score is a function of the pairwise relationships between an associated one of the plurality of business process models and others of the plurality of business process models.

Abstract: In one example, a computer-implemented method includes evaluating pairwise relationships between pairs of business process models stored in a repository, constructing a network that encodes the pairwise relationships, and calculating a score for each of the plurality of business process models by traversing the network, wherein the score is a function of the pairwise relationships between an associated one of the plurality of business process models and others of the plurality of business process models.

Abstract: Methods for packaging a business process model are provided. A processor determines one or more differences between a first business process model and one or more templates. A processor determines one or more paths of workflow for the first business process model. A processor generates a first generated model. A processor generates a matrix based, in part, on the workflow of the first business process model. A processor determines a first component of the first business model to be an input to a second business component. A processor generates a value for an element of the matrix based, in part, on the determined input of the first component. A processor receives a second generated model. A processor determines one or more differences between the first and second generated models. A processor updates the first business process model based on, in part, the differences between the first and second generated models.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for packaging a business process model is provided. A processor determines one or more differences between a first business process model and one or more templates. A processor determines one or more paths of workflow for the first business process model. A processor generates a first generated model, wherein the generated model includes, at least in part, the determined one or more differences and the determined one or more paths.

Abstract: A system and method for allocating suppliers to customers locate a plurality of suppliers in a geographical information system. Relative capability associated with each of the plurality of suppliers is determined. For each supplier in the plurality of suppliers, the system and method generate lines by linking said each supplier to neighboring suppliers in the plurality of suppliers, establish relative capability points on the lines between said each supplier and the neighboring suppliers, and define boundaries of a coverage region associated with said each supplier based on the relative capability points. A customer located in the coverage region is allocated to the associated supplier of the coverage region.

Abstract: A method of creating a House of Quality for product design, the House of Quality including a plurality of customer requirements, each of which has corresponding requirement importance includes obtaining a plurality of customer comments on a product; determining, with a processing unit hot words from each of the customer comments, determining at least one customer requirement associated with the each of the comments and assessment rating for that customer requirement based on the hot words; and determining requirement importance of each of the customer requirements.

Abstract: According to the technical solution of an embodiment of the present invention, since content information is transmitted synchronously with the program scene, within the broadcast stream of data, media data, for example, advertisements, which may be of interest to the user, can be analyzed by selecting scenes at a granular level from the broadcast information. In one regard, the selected scene is being played currently, enhancing the relevance of the real-time analysis. In another regard, selecting a reduced granularity avoids statistical information overshadowing individual information. In this way, the accuracy of selecting media data with respect to a current user is improved.

Abstract: A method for generating cube metadata based on an enhanced star schema includes extracting dimension references from a factless fact table in an enhanced star schema comprising a fact table, a plurality of dimension tables of the fact table and the factless fact table; constructing a hierarchy reference based on the dimension references; and generating cube metadata by combining the hierarchy reference with measures obtained from the fact table and a hierarchy obtained from the dimension tables in the enhanced star schema.

Abstract: A method and system for determining supply chain service area by simulating service cycle time. A plurality of simulation parameters including stochastic factors are used with a supply chain simulation model. The supply chain simulation model is run repeatedly and generated simulated data is analyzed to determine service cycle time. The service cycle time is used to compute service area for a facility.

Abstract: A method of monitoring input devices to discover units of work and type of work includes recording uses of input devices of a computer, analyzing the recorded uses against pre-defined use patterns to determine sets of the recorded uses that correspond to one of a plurality of units of work, and outputting an indicator indicating which of the units of work have occurred. A method of accessing a call center includes performing speech to text transcription on audio recordings from the center, determining an identifier identifying an operator for a call from the text, estimating a phase of the call based on the text, recording ant entry including the identifier, the phase, and a time period of the phase, correlating the entry with another entry including information on an application run during the estimated phase to generate a correlated entry, and determining quality level of operator based on correlated entry.