Abstract: Producing and tuning an integrated vessel control model to meet decarbonization goals includes loading an base performance model for a vessel and corresponding observed carbon emissions from the vessel resulting from a set of control inputs for the vessel. A decarbonization model also is selected. A new integrated performance model is computed within a digital twin of the vessel modeling new performance metrics resulting from the deployment of accessories in the decarbonization model, and the new metrics are compared to minimum performance standards for the vessel. When a performance metric fails to meet the minimum standard, a corresponding accessory is identified as impacting the failing performance metric and an adjustment is incrementally applied to the accessory until the failing performance metric is determined to meet the minimum standard. Then, the new integrated performance model is simulated to predict resulting carbon emissions which is stored in the new integrated performance model.

Abstract: The optimized dynamic scheduling of barges in inland waterways includes geolocating a set of barges positioned on an inland waterway and receiving current data for the inland waterway at each geolocation of each barge in the set. An estimated time of arrival (ETA) for each barge is retrieved from a table at a location for each barge along the inland waterway at which point the barge unloads onboard freight rendering the barge available to receive transport of new freight. Each ETA is modified for each barge according to the received current data at multiple different positions along a route in the inland waterway. Finally, an availability table for the barges in the set is constructed based upon each modified ETA so that barge availability queries received from over a computer communications network can be responded to with availability information stored in the availability table.

Abstract: Physical Internet (PI) dynamic principal interface node (PIN) port selection includes selecting a primary maritime port as a PIN in a routing of freight aboard a sea going vessel from an origin node to a destination node in a PI model and receiving a disruption event in the PI model indicating an inability of the vessel to berth at the primary maritime port. A cluster of alternative PINs is determined in connection with the destination node of the PI model and a routing score computed for each alternative PIN based upon a cost of routing the freight through each alternative PIN. Finally, a new routing is established in the PI model utilizing an optimal alternative PIN in lieu of the selected PIN based upon a corresponding routing score, and a message is transmitted to the vessel to divert to a secondary maritime port associated with the optimal alternative PIN.

Abstract: Recursive multi-criteria Physical Internet (PI) freight orchestration includes the loading a hierarchy of connected nodes and specifying a starting node and ending node within the hierarchy. Different combinations of the connected nodes are determined which connect the starting node and the ending node, each defining a corresponding routing of the freight in a set of possible routings. Thereafter, for each corresponding routing of the freight, a route value is recursively computed from the starting node through the ending node and across different intermediate nodes of the routing for the freight connecting the starting node and the ending node. Each recursively computed route value is processed in order to select, amongst the possible routings, a selected routing for transporting the freight to the geographic destination and a record can be written with the selected routing for transporting the freight to the geographic destination.

Abstract: Critical infrastructure (CI) protection blueprint generation in an interdependent CI architecture includes constructing a digital twin of a heterogeneous collection of CI elements associated with respectively different services provided to a common community. Thereafter, hypothetical sensor data is specified in the digital twin for a target CI element in the hierarchy. In response, sensor data is read for other CI elements dependent upon the target CI element so as to identify impacted CI elements. For each impacted CI element, additional sensor data is read for further CI elements in the hierarchy dependent upon the impacted CI elements and the process repeats until no additional impacted CI elements are identified. A listing of all impacted CI elements is written to a blueprint for the hierarchy in association with the hypothetical sensor data in order to define a cascading effect of the hypothetical sensor data upon the hierarchy within the digital twin.

Abstract: An ad hoc supply chain collaborative computing environment management method includes selecting a collaboration model from amongst several models and establishing the environment in accordance with the selected model including defining a knowledge graph, a set of expected events to be received in an event log, and one or more predictive functions operating upon the different events in the event log to produce predictive values. The method also includes, registering actors in a supply chain as authenticated publishers or subscribers to the event log of different events published by different authenticated computing systems of the actors, authenticating different ones of the registered different actors prior the different actors publishing events to the event log, triggering predictive functions for newly published ones of the events in order to produce predictive values and providing read-only access to different states of the entities of the knowledge graph to authenticated subscribers.

Abstract: In a stock rebalancing method, separate inventory holding clients are registered, each as individual publishers of inventory level data, and further, separate transporter clients also are registered each as individual publishers of transport capacity. Then, an indication is received from one of the inventory holding clients, of an overstock condition of a specified item. Contemporaneously, an indication is received from another of the inventory holding clients of an understock condition of the specified item. In response, one of the transporter clients is identified as indicating excess capacity sufficient to bear transport of the specified item in a quantity indicated by the understock condition, the clients are messaged indicating the conditions, and the identified transport client is directed to transport the specified item in the indicated quantity from the one of the inventory clients indicating the overstock condition to the one of the inventory holding clients indicating an understock condition.

Abstract: The self-audited routing of a shipping container includes acquiring a contemporaneous location of a shipping container within location based circuitry of a computing device affixed to the shipping container and retrieving from memory of the computing device affixed to the shipping container, an expected node and a destination node from a sequence of nodes in a path from an origin node of the shipping container, to the destination node. The contemporaneous location is then compared to a location of the expected node and, on the condition that the contemporaneous location is not within a threshold distance of the location of the expected node, a message is transmitted from the computing device over a wireless computer communications network to a remotely disposed client computer indicating a fault in routing of the shipping container to the destination node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for co-dependent document container management. Co-dependent document container management includes loading into memory of a computer, a document container encapsulating a document, a co-dependency rule assigning a dependency of access to the document upon a specific geographic location, and co-dependency document access program code. The program code of the container may be executed in the memory of the computer causing the retrieval of a geographic position of the computer, the application of the co-dependency rule to the retrieved geographic position and, on condition that the geographic position of the computer satisfies the co-dependency rule, the location of a document viewer registered in the computer to render the document and the direction of the computer to launch the document viewer with the document as input to the document viewer.

Abstract: The self-audited routing of a shipping container includes acquiring a contemporaneous location of a shipping container within location based circuitry of a computing device affixed to the shipping container and retrieving from memory of the computing device affixed to the shipping container, an expected node and a destination node from a sequence of nodes in a path from an origin node of the shipping container, to the destination node. The contemporaneous location is then compared to a location of the expected node and, on the condition that the contemporaneous location is not within a threshold distance of the location of the expected node, a message is transmitted from the computing device over a wireless computer communications network to a remotely disposed client computer indicating a fault in routing of the shipping container to the destination node.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for co-dependent document container management. Co-dependent document container management includes loading into memory of a computer, a document container encapsulating a document, a co-dependency rule assigning a dependency of access to the document upon a specific geographic location, and co-dependency document access program code. The program code of the container may be executed in the memory of the computer causing the retrieval of a geographic position of the computer, the application of the co-dependency rule to the retrieved geographic position and, on condition that the geographic position of the computer satisfies the co-dependency rule, the location of a document viewer registered in the computer to render the document and the direction of the computer to launch the document viewer with the document as input to the document viewer.

Abstract: A supply chain message routing method includes registering in a supply chain information sharing data processing system, a multiplicity of different actors in a supply chain and generating a knowledge graph that includes different entities representative of corresponding ones of the actors joined by edges representative of relationships between respectively joined ones of the entities. The knowledge graph additionally indicates a role for each of the actors. The method also includes monitoring an event log of events published thereto by the different actors and responds to a new event posted to the event log by extracting from the event, keywords pertaining to the supply chain, mapping the keywords to one or more roles of the supply chain, identifying a set of entities in the knowledge graph corresponding to the roles, formulating a message from the new event, and publishing the formulated message to each entity in the identified set.

Abstract: An intelligent dynamic container routing method interrogating by a digital hub in a primary way station on a route from an origin to a final destination, a computing appliance disposed on a shipping container containing an item, identifying from the interrogation the final destination and conditions upon which the item is to be shipped to the final destination, and broadcasting a request containing an identification of the final destination and the conditions to one or more other digital hubs positioned in correspondingly different way stations and communicatively linked to the interrogating digital hub. Then, an indication is received from each of the other digital hubs indicating if the container is able to be transported to the final destination without violating the conditions. Finally, one of the way stations is selected as a next destination for the shipping container and a record written to the computing compliance indicating as much.

Abstract: In a stock rebalancing method, separate inventory holding clients are registered, each as individual publishers of inventory level data, and further, separate transporter clients also are registered each as individual publishers of transport capacity. Then, an indication is received from one of the inventory holding clients, of an overstock condition of a specified item. Contemporaneously, an indication is received from another of the inventory holding clients of an understock condition of the specified item. In response, one of the transporter clients is identified as indicating excess capacity sufficient to bear transport of the specified item in a quantity indicated by the understock condition, the clients are messaged indicating the conditions, and the identified transport client is directed to transport the specified item in the indicated quantity from the one of the inventory clients indicating the overstock condition to the one of the inventory holding clients indicating an understock condition.

Abstract: An ad hoc supply chain collaborative computing environment management method includes selecting a collaboration model from amongst several models and establishing the environment in accordance with the selected model including defining a knowledge graph, a set of expected events to be received in an event log, and one or more predictive functions operating upon the different events in the event log to produce predictive values. The method also includes, registering actors in a supply chain as authenticated publishers or subscribers to the event log of different events published by different authenticated computing systems of the actors, authenticating different ones of the registered different actors prior the different actors publishing events to the event log, triggering predictive functions for newly published ones of the events in order to produce predictive values and providing read-only access to different states of the entities of the knowledge graph to authenticated subscribers.

Abstract: A supply chain message routing method includes registering in a supply chain information sharing data processing system, a multiplicity of different actors in a supply chain and generating a knowledge graph that includes different entities representative of corresponding ones of the actors joined by edges representative of relationships between respectively joined ones of the entities. The knowledge graph additionally indicates a role for each of the actors. The method also includes monitoring an event log of events published thereto by the different actors and responds to a new event posted to the event log by extracting from the event, keywords pertaining to the supply chain, mapping the keywords to one or more roles of the supply chain, identifying a set of entities in the knowledge graph corresponding to the roles, formulating a message from the new event, and publishing the formulated message to each entity in the identified set.