Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system computes work role correlation values corresponding to work role pairs that each includes a pair of work roles corresponding to a project. The information handling system groups resources corresponding to the work roles into resource sets, each of which including a unique set of resources. Next, the information handling system computes resource set scores for each of the resource sets based on their respective unique set of resources and the work role correlation values. In turn, the information handling system selects one of the resource sets based on the resource set scores.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided for predicting a rework rate due to the communication error in a transfer task. A rework rate value and feedback analysis is determined based on a soundness of a communication provided by a first entity in the transfer task. The rework rate value and the feedback analysis is sent to a project manager, where, using the rework rate value and the feedback analysis, the project manager provides an indication. The transfer task is sent back to the first entity indicating that more information is required for the transfer task in response to receiving an indication to redirect the transfer task back to the first entity to re-perform the transfer task. The second entity is enabled to commence with the subsequent task in response to receiving an indication to enable the second entity to commence with the subsequent task.

Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus and system and program product, for enlarging or reducing an image. The image is displayed on a display screen. A pointing operation is detected. The pointing operation points to, with a single-touch gesture using pointing means on the display screen, a first figure indicative of a range of the image to be enlarged or reduced and a second figure indicative of a size of the enlarged or reduced range. In response to the detection of the pointing operation, an enlarged or reduced image is displayed after the enlarged or reduced image is obtained by enlarging or reducing the image at an enlargement or reduction ratio determined based on the first figure and the second figure.

Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus and system and program product, for enlarging or reducing an image. The image is displayed on a display screen. A pointing operation is detected. The pointing operation points to, with a single-touch gesture using pointing means on the display screen, a first figure indicative of a range of the image to be enlarged or reduced and a second figure indicative of a size of the enlarged or reduced range. In response to the detection of the pointing operation, an enlarged or reduced image is displayed after the enlarged or reduced image is obtained by enlarging or reducing the image at an enlargement or reduction ratio determined based on the first figure and the second figure.

Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus and system and program product, for enlarging or reducing an image. The image is displayed on a display screen. A pointing operation is detected. The pointing operation points to, with a single-touch gesture using pointing means on the display screen, a first figure indicative of a range of the image to be enlarged or reduced and a second figure indicative of a size of the enlarged or reduced range. In response to the detection of the pointing operation, an enlarged or reduced image is displayed after the enlarged or reduced image is obtained by enlarging or reducing the image at an enlargement or reduction ratio determined based on the first figure and the second figure.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by one or more processor, an indication that a first task assigned to a first entity is complete and that a second task is assigned to a second entity (the second task is subsequent to the first task). In response to obtaining the first indication, the one or more processor generates a third task, which includes a transfer task from the first entity to the second entity before the second entity commences the second task. The one or more processor identifies data to be communicated to the second entity by the first entity, before the commencement of the second task by the second entity. The one or more processor obtains an indication that the third task is complete; and in response to obtaining this indication, determines whether during the third task the first entity communicated a pre-defined portion of the data to the second entity.

Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus and system and program product, for enlarging or reducing an image. The image is displayed on a display screen. A pointing operation is detected. The pointing operation points to, with a single-touch gesture using pointing means on the display screen, a first figure indicative of a range of the image to be enlarged or reduced and a second figure indicative of a size of the enlarged or reduced range. In response to the detection of the pointing operation, an enlarged or reduced image is displayed after the enlarged or reduced image is obtained by enlarging or reducing the image at an enlargement or reduction ratio determined based on the first figure and the second figure.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for supporting creation of a search expression that employs a plurality of words may display a search expression creation support screen comprising a search word field for inputting therein search words and a search expression field for visually displaying, in a nodal form, a search expression that includes the inputted search words, sort the search words, inputted in the search word field, into one or more groups depending on their categories, display, in the search expression field, the search words included in each of the groups as OR-connected nodes, while displaying connections between the groups as AND-connections, and change a search expression in the search expression field in response to a user's operation that has been performed in the search word field or in the search expression field.

Abstract: A holographic medium is formed of an optical waveguide including at least one core layer positioned between at least one portion of a material having a lower refractive index, a diffraction grating layer formed at a boundary between the core layer and the material of lower refractive index or in the core layer, and a storage layer outside the optical waveguide. Upon storing information in the storage layer a reference beam and an object are input into the optical waveguide and in retrieving stored information the reference beam is emitted to an end face of the core layer and transmitted through the core layer to be transformed into a diffracted beam in a diffraction grating layer that is emitted outside the core layer and transmitted through the storage layer, where the object beam is retrieved as a retrieved beam.

Abstract: A holographic medium comprising an optical waveguide including at least one core layer positioned between portions having a lower refractive index; a diffraction grating layer formed at a boundary between the core layer and the above portions or in the core layer; and a storage layer outside the optical waveguide. An optical waveguide having the above structure in which the diffraction efficiency of the diffraction grating layer has a specific distribution is useful. In multiple-angle storage, a reference beam is emitted from an end face of a core layer or from the upper or lower side of the medium and a photodetector may be used, so as to control the incident angle. The reference beam and/or the optical waveguide is moved so that the reference beam couples only with a specific diffraction grating layer. The object beam may be focused onto a small target area of the storage layer.