Abstract: A method for generating a graphical model of a plurality of electronic documents establishes connections between individual electronic documents with common authorship even if the spelling of the name of the author varies amongst the documents, for instance, due to the use of abbreviations, pseudonyms, misspellings, and the like. The graphical model is generated by ingesting data from the electronic documents and constructing a base graphical model using the processed data. Thereafter, as part of a disambiguation step, similar authors amongst the plurality of electronic documents are identified and clustered to yield an author similarity graph, which is preferably refined over time. A degree of belief, or similarity inference, is then calculated for documents determined to have common authorship and, in turn, incorporated into the base graphical model. As a result, an inference of the accuracy of linked information in the graphical model can be established.

Abstract: A method of communicating with different print entities receives a print job and evaluates the print job as either a digital print job and/or an offset print job. The method can perform a live or off-line reverse auction for the digital print job and/or the offset print job by offering the digital print job and the offset print job to printing entities and receiving bids for the digital print job and the offset print job from the printing entities. The bids for the digital print job are based upon the number of images within the digital print job, and the bids for the offset print job are based upon the number of sheets within the offset print job. The bids are evaluated to rank the bids (or to rank the printing entities) into a ranking, which is output.

Abstract: A method of communicating with different print entities receives a print job and evaluates the print job as either a digital print job and/or an offset print job. The method can perform a live or off-line reverse auction for the digital print job and/or the offset print job by offering the digital print job and the offset print job to printing entities and receiving bids for the digital print job and the offset print job from the printing entities. The bids for the digital print job are based upon the number of images within the digital print job, and the bids for the offset print job are based upon the number of sheets within the offset print job. The bids are evaluated to rank the bids (or to rank the printing entities) into a ranking, which is output.