Abstract: A web enabled method for managing a life cycle of human capital-related dynamic requirements of an organization by capturing existing goals and/or ethos and/or values of the organization across various business processes and thereby defining required competencies within and across various job families; setting role based performance measures and career growth plans based on defined competencies and captured goals; assessing the human capital on the basis of defined measures and plans to identify skill-gap of the human capital; conducting specific training program to bridge the skill-gap of the human capital and thereby obtaining balance score cards to profile the human capital competency; integrating the assessed competency profile of the human capital in various organizational sourcing channels to enable the organization to search for internal and external sources; and maintaining the balance score cards of the assessed profile for fulfilling human capital service metrics.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method for an automated analysis system for semiconductor manufacturing fabrication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises one or more site databases that each store data generated by an associated one or more semiconductor fabrication plants, a configuration database, and a server communicatively coupled to the one or more site databases and the configuration database, the server to analyze the data from the one or more site databases upon a request by a client, the data to be analyzed based on configuration settings in the configuration database that provide uniform configuration synchronization for applying algorithms to the data. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: In a railroad locomotive having a plurality of systems which collectively are used for locomotive operations, a method of self-healing a system of the plurality of systems comprising monitoring operational conditions of the system, detecting at least one of a pending and a current failure, determining a self-healing procedure to correct the failure, and applying the self-healing procedure comprising at least one of a safe mode technique, a redundancy technique, and an automatic configuration technique.

Abstract: In a railroad locomotive having a plurality of systems which collectively are used for locomotive operations, a method of self-healing a system of the plurality of systems comprising monitoring operational conditions of the system, detecting at least one of a pending and a current failure, determining a self-healing procedure to correct the failure, and applying the self-healing procedure comprising at least one of a safe mode technique, a redundancy technique, and an automatic configuration technique.

Abstract: In a railroad locomotive having a plurality of systems which collectively are used for locomotive operations, a method of self-healing a system of the plurality of systems comprising monitoring operational conditions of the system, detecting at least one of a pending and a current failure, determining a self-healing procedure to correct the failure, and applying the self-healing procedure comprising at least one of a safe mode technique, a redundancy technique, and an automatic configuration technique.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a plurality of locomotives, the locomotives being responsive to a plurality of discrete actual commands, the apparatus comprising: a combination generator adapted for generating combinations of the discrete actual commands to yield a command combination set; a performance calculator adapted for calculating a performance parameter set from the command combination set; a feasible combination selector adapted for selecting a feasible combination subset from the command combination set as a function of a discrete performance setpoint, a performance tolerance, and the performance parameter set; an objective function calculator adapted for calculating an objective function set from the feasible combination subset; and an optimal command selector adapted for selecting an optimal command combination from the feasible combination subset corresponding to an optimum value of the objective function set.