1098 results about "Decision maker" patented technology

The most preferred embodiment of the present invention is a computer-based decision support system that includes three main components: a database mining engine (DME); an advertising optimization mechanism; and a customized user interface that provides access to the various features of the invention. The user interface, in conjunction with the DME, provides a unique and innovative way to store, retrieve and manipulate data from existing databases containing media-related audience access data, which describe the access habits and preferences of the media audience. By using a database with a simplified storage and retrieval protocol, the data contained therein can be effectively manipulated in real time. This means that previously complex and lengthy information retrieval and analysis activities can be accomplished in very short periods of time (typically seconds instead of minutes or even hours). Further, by utilizing the advertising optimization mechanism of the present invention, businesses, networks, and advertising agencies can interactively create, score, rank and compare various proposed or actual advertising strategies in a simple and efficient manner. This allows the decision-makers to more effectively tailor their marketing efforts and successfully reach the desired target market while conserving scarce advertising capital. Finally, the user interface for the system provides access to both the DME and the optimization mechanism in a simple and straightforward manner, significantly reducing training time.

A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons between booked information and actual current travel data.

Electronic content is filtered to identify spam using image and linguistic processing. A plurality of information type gatherers assimilate and output different message attributes relating to message content associated with an information type. A categorizer may have a plurality of decision makers for providing as output a message class for classifying the message data. A history processor records the message attributes and the class decision as part of the prior history information and / or modifies the prior history information to reflect changes to fixed data and / or probability data. A categorizer coalescer assesses the message class output by the set of decision makers together with optional user input for producing a class decision identifying whether the message data is spam.

A computer-aided decision-making system and method that is applicable to a variety of decision-making contexts and applications such as, but not limited to, automobile or home purchase decisions. The computer-aided decision-making system provides immediate, useful, and relevant information to a person in a decision-making context, overcoming common human cognitive problems that occur in decision-making, and enabling consumer purchases in an on-line sales environment. In particular, aspects of the invention that aid a person in decision-making include, but are not limited to: managing all the sub-decisions, educating the decision-maker, highlighting the most important sub-decisions, offering the most viable proposals for evaluation, distinguishing significant differences between proposals, supplying various evaluation tools, preventing blind spots, assisting the decision-maker's memory, gauging the progress of the decision process, and learning about the decision maker from the decision process.

A method of analysis including an intrinsically valid class of statistical methods for dealing with multivariate ordinal data. A decision support system that can (1) provide automated decision support in a transparent fashion (2) optionally be controlled by a decision maker, (3) provide for an evidence acquisition concept, including automatically increasing the content of an underlying database, and (4) provide a computationally efficient interactive distributed environment. The method is exemplified in the context of assisted diagnostic support.

A method for collecting, organizing, presenting, and using data relative to the scene of an emergency situation is disclosed. The method uses a Responder Assets Management System (RAMS) composed of four modules including information, logistics, operations, and planning. The information module makes general information immediately available to responders. The logistics module assists in managing equipment resources during a contingency and includes an equipment manager interface for managing equipment used to respond to an emergency situation. The operations module supports daily operations responsibilities and scales to handle significant emergencies and includes at least one of a situational awareness interface, a response options generator (ROG) interface, an operations manager interface, a messenger interface and a status board interface. The situational awareness interface is designed for emergency and crisis response managers to provide enhanced, community-wide situational awareness using full immersion, spherical images, Geographic Information System (GIS) maps, site and floor plans, and a database interface to provide virtual walk-through, pre-incident plans, for contingency planning, training visualization, and operational support. The ROG interface provides automated response and resource estimates to decision-makers in command posts and on-site in developing a response to significant, unplanned events. The operations manager interface is used by a remote headquarters to monitor an on-going operation. The messenger interface is a pre-formatted, topic oriented messaging system that supports both informational messages and messages that automatically update system data and displays. The status board interface is a situation display of key situational awareness data. The planning module assists users in planning for critical events.

A comprehensive organization entertainment and purchasing operating system through a computer network. A Front End allows users viewing, purchasing, social networking and the like. A back end of the system, includes maintaining relationships with content providers who produce and cause to be broadcast a media source of in a public venue such as television, movies, streaming videos, and video games etc. and further highlighted and display products and services in numerous scenes. Information on content partners including contact information of key decision makers at major studios, mini-majors and independent film makers which is entered into the system's computer database. The system will also include granting access to key content partners so that interactions with content partners can include uploading content to encoding, providing digital distribution contracts with the system's corporate legal department, uploading information to the corporate heads of the system, and maintaining a multilayered content management system.

A method, computer program product and system for allowing multiple decisions to be made by multiple decision makers during software installation. A developer of an installer program may select the decisions to be made during the installation process. The developer may further designate the decision makers to handle each of these decisions in a configuration file. The configuration file may be compiled into executable code where the executable code may be embedded in the installer program. By the developer designating multiple decision makers to handle multiple decisions, multiple decision makers may now be able to be involved during the software installation process.

Techniques are disclosed for systematically assessing an enterprise's security risks in view of a set of security patterns. Each pattern that is applicable to the enterprise's operation is then considered against the backdrop of a set of common attributes that are used, in turn, to further distinguish each pattern from a risk and security solution perspective. Using the disclosed techniques, specific security risks can be identified and appropriate security products can be selected to address those risks in a systematic manner, thereby assisting information technology decision makers across a wide variety of enterprises in deriving security solutions. These security solutions will typically be more effective and efficient from a functional perspective, as well as being more cost-effective, than security solutions created using prior art ad hoc approaches. The disclosed techniques may also be leveraged to create a requirements list for function to be included in a security product.

A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons between booked information and actual current travel data.

The invention discloses a cold-chain logistics storage supervisory system and method. The cold-chain logistics storage supervisory system includes a temperature monitoring module, a WMS (Warehouse Management System) management module, an order management module, an in-out stock monitoring module, a three-dimensional planning module, a processing module, an inventory management module and a locating and tracking module. The old-chain logistics storage supervisory system effectively organizes the staff, space and equipment by aid of the WMS for receiving, storing, picking and transporting goods, transporting raw materials and parts to manufacturing enterprises and conveying finished products to wholesalers, distributors and final customers. The main functions of the cold-chain logistics storage supervisory system are managing and controlling all in-out stock dynamic conditions of the warehouse and doing statistic analysis about inventory data, so decision makers can find problems timely, adopt corresponding measures to adjust the inventory structure, shorten the storage period, quicken capital turnover, and further to ensure smooth logistics in enterprise production.

The present invention provides an intelligent track system generally mounted in a network, server, or telecom rack / enclosure rack rail that can sense the spaces, such as “U” spaces, used by electronic equipment, shelving, or blanking panels and provide such information to a remote location. Information technology (IT) managers and other decision-makers can remotely view the actual available spaces and determine appropriate locations for installing additional equipment. Criteria can be based on actual available space and for some embodiments in conjunction with predictive or actual sensed temperatures proximate to the spaces, available cooling capacity, power loads, and available power capacity. In at least one embodiment, the intelligent mounting track system can include a plurality of sensors mounted along the rack surfaces that collectively or individually uniquely identify which spaces are occupied. The information can be communicated to an electronic processor with software to interpret the data and indicate space utilization.

The present invention provides an intelligent track system generally mounted in a network, server, or telecom rack / enclosure rack rail that can sense the spaces, such as “U” spaces, used by electronic equipment, shelving, or blanking panels and provide such information to a remote location. Information technology (IT) managers and other decision-makers can remotely view the actual available spaces and determine appropriate locations for installing additional equipment. Criteria can be based on actual available space and for some embodiments in conjunction with predictive or actual sensed temperatures proximate to the spaces, available cooling capacity, power loads, and available power capacity. In at least one embodiment, the intelligent mounting track system can include a plurality of sensors mounted along the rack surfaces that collectively or individually uniquely identify which spaces are occupied. The information can be communicated to an electronic processor with software to interpret the data and indicate space utilization.

A trade study for developing products for a decision making authority, and guidelines in tailoring the trade study to meet the needs of a program. The trade study transforms a subjective decision making process into an objective decision making process. Within the trade study, standard terms and definitions are used, roles and responsibilities of participants and decision makers are documented, and a flow diagram is provided. The trade study defines a structure, removes cost and risk, defines baseline / optimum solutions, present uncertainty considerations, and presents a cost-benefit chart and a risk-benefit chart.

A system and method for inputting, analyzing, and disseminating information necessary for identified decision-makers to respond to emergency situations. This system and method provides consistency and integration among multiple groups, and may be used for both initial consequence-based decisions and follow-on consequence-based decisions. The system and method in a preferred embodiment also provides tools for accessing and manipulating information that are appropriate for each decision-maker, in order to achieve more reasoned and timely consequence-based decisions. The invention includes processes for designing and implementing a system or method for responding to emergency situations.

The invention discloses a farmland information real-time monitoring system and method based on remote monitoring. The method comprises the following steps: an information collection front end integrates the multiplexed information containing the factors of weather, soil and farmland environment and video image information which are collected instantly, to one-way information and transmits the information to a server side through a wireless transmission device and a transmission network; the server side analyzes and restores the received one-way information to the multiplexed information and the video image information and stores and manages the obtained information; and the analyzed and restored real time information and / or the stored historical information are sent to a client side through the Internet according to the demand of the client side for display, observation and analysis. The system and method of the invention can realize the visual and real-time monitoring of crops, thus providing intuitive and credible reference information and data for agricultural experts, decision makers and managers.

Provided are a sensor node device and method for supporting mobility of a mobile node in a sensor network. The sensor node device includes: a network interface for communicating with a sink node, at least one neighboring sensor node, and the mobile node; a mobility supervisor for detecting a location of the mobile node, and deciding a sensor node for a service of a data packet received through the network interface on the basis of the detected location; a transmission decision maker for deciding a transmission mode for the data packet received through the network interface according to the location of the mobile node; and a state reporter for reporting a transmission state of the data packet through the sensor node device. When the mobile node moves to a place where radio wave propagation areas of sensor nodes overlap each other, the radio wave intensity of each sensor node is detected to perform a handoff to the sensor node of the area having the strongest radio wave intensity. Thus, a ping-pong problem caused by unnecessary repeated handoff, and a delay problem caused by too slow handoff, can be prevented.

A regional public opinion monitoring and decision-making auxiliary system based on big data comprises an information acquisition and storage module, a data pre-processing module, a big data public opinion analysis module, a public opinion monitoring, early warning and decision-making auxiliary module and a background management module, wherein the information acquisition and storage module is used for carrying out structuralized storage management on acquired public opinion source information to form a regional big data public opinion knowledge base which is updated in real time; the data pre-processing module is used for pre-processing data in the regional big data public opinion knowledge base to form a complete and ordered data set; the big data public opinion analysis module is used for carrying out public opinion analysis and tendency prediction on hot topics with appointed conditions and the like to obtain a public opinion analysis and tendency prediction result; the public opinion monitoring, early warning and decision-making auxiliary module is used for carrying out real-time monitoring and tracking, management and persuasion on customized public opinions dug and analyzed by sensitive word pairs in a pre-defined sensitive word bank, and announcing the customized public opinions to a decision maker in manners of in-station messages, short messages and mails; and the background management module is used for carrying out public opinion information classification management, user and authority management, keyword management, acquisition management, content management, special topic management and analysis report management.

A process converts stand-alone data sources to an open standard based architecture and integrates data throughout disparate departments and organizations. Once the data is in an open environment, it is made available in a collaborative environment via Web-based applications. The process does not require that the data come under the control of a central database, rather each data owner retains control. The invention allows users to maintain original processes for conducting their day-to-day activities. With minor modification to client applications, role-based interconnectivity of data can be established to allow data elements to be re-used by all downstream users without re-entering data, thereby improving product and process knowledge, preventing errors, handling data arbitration, improving data visibility and flexibility for decision makers, and saving resources thereby allowing collaborators to focus on core business competencies.

The invention belongs to the field of path planning technology and specifically relates to a three-dimensional multi-UAV coordinated path planning method based on SAS. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out modeling on a path planning environment; initializing multi-target SAS calculation parameters consisting of the length of a minimum path section, a maximum turning angle, a maximum angle of climb / glide, a minimum safe distance of UAVs and a minimum flight altitude of UAVs; initializing the positions of the UAVs, wherein each UAV represents a path; updating the positions of the UAVs; expanding a current node; determining whether a path section collides with other path sections; updating a node table of the path section; executing a step (8) if minimum path cost set in the step (2) is met, and otherwise, executing the step (3); determining a cooperated planned optimal path so as to complete path planning. The method overcomes multi-objective optimization problems, has versatility, provides a reasonable optimal solution for a decision maker and better accords with practical needs.

A system, apparatus, and methods for facilitating a sales team to create, populate, and maintain a customer sales knowledgebase. The customer sales knowledgebase may be used to by sales people in developing a sales strategy, for example identifying key people within a customer entity for a particular sales pitch and determining how to approach key people. The knowledgebase may be utilized as a present transaction resource or for aggregating customer data for use by other members of a sales team. After sales people interact with key persons within the customer entity, the knowledgebase provides a common repository for sharing customer impression data, detailing which sales strategies were successful and to what extent the sales strategies were successful. Furthermore, the knowledgebase may also be used by corporate decision makers or sales managers for sales to facilitate sales forecasts and determine which customers to target.

The invention discloses a scheduling, organization and cooperation system and a scheduling, organization and cooperation method for a multi-robot system. By adoption of distributive mode architecture, the information interaction is reduced, the systematic resources are used fully, the activity and the problem solving level of the overall system are enhanced, and the ability of intelligent coordination and flexible cooperation among a plurality of robots is enhanced. The method and the system intelligently perform scheduling and cooperation, reduce the communication traffic, reduce the systematic consumption, well adapt to a dynamic environment and complicated dynamic tasks, and enhance the problem solving capability by employing a dynamic decision maker scheme, namely every robot may be atask decision maker. According to the invention, a bulletin is used, a method of making a robot actively check the bulletin to acquire task information in an active free (capability) state is adoptedand the selection of the best can be finished during checking, so that the information interaction is reduced, the information processing and comparison process is simplified, the communication traffic is greatly reduced and problems of information blocking and wastes of the systematic resources are solved.

A method and related system is disclosed for risk-aware contingency flight re-planning of a vehicle's pre-planned route. The system receives a desired Risk Tolerance Level (RTL) for the pre-planned route from a decision maker. As a mission time progresses, changing threats pose an unknown level of risk to the vehicle and crew. The system receives an unplanned threat to mission success of the vehicle and qualifies the received unplanned threat with a Risk Type (RT). The system generates and evaluates possible 4-D re-routes based on the RTL and RT coupled with physical attributes of the possible 4-D re-route. Additionally, the re-planner associates a cost to each of the possible 4-D re-routes and presents ranked possibilities to the decision maker for selection and activation.

A network of data processing-based and telecommunications-based apparatuses and systems are disclosed, including a product sub-system that interacts with a user, gathers information from the user, communicates the information to the product's vendor, and receives new pre-programmed interactions from the vendor for future interactions with the user. In addition to this computing / networking apparatus which is a sub-system in or attached to a product or service, other components of this invention include a data processing system for constructing and downloading pre-programmed interactions to the product sub-system; a communications sub-system for transmitting the data directly from the product sub-system to the vendor's computer; a communications apparatus for reading the product sub-system's data, transmitting it to the vendor's computer, and downloading new pre-programmed interactions to the product sub-system; a data processing system that resides in the product sub-system and conducts numerous types of interactions with a user; and a data processing system that resides in the vendor's computer and analyzes and reports the information gathered from product users. This invention may be built into a variety of products and services to establish networks of customer-vendor interactions and communications. It makes possible new customer roles and contributions to the design and development of products and services, and the nature of customer-vendor relationships. A variety of functions are enabled by this invention, which include (depending on the configuration of a particular product sub-system) inquiries, reports, suggestions, help, interactive services, transactions and two-way real-time communications. As a complete system, this invention may be viewed as a new medium through which customers interact directly with products and services at the time they are using them, to describe their conception of what the product or service should be and how the vendor should work with them to satisfy their needs better. The customer data, suggestions and other information are transmitted to the product vendor's computer where they are collected, analyzed by automated means and presented in automated reports to product managers, product designers and other decision makers. This source of continuous customer-based information may assist in improving products, services and customer relationships both sooner and more accurately, thereby producing strategic business advantages over competitors who do not engage in a similar improvement dialog with their customers. Over time, the cost of incorporating such sub-systems may fall and the impact from using them may rise, producing a greater reliance on customer involvement and customer input into a growing range of business decisions. This may produce a gradual transfer, from vendors to customers, of conceptual commercial guidance, both in individual cases and in aggregate. This invention suggests the emergence of a “partnership capitalist” economy in which a variety of interactive products and services link customers and vendors with networks that are built into those products and services, producing greater understanding, efficiency and accuracy in designing, manufacturing and selling the products, services and lifestyles that customers truly want.

A business process modeling framework is used for data quality analysis. The modeling framework represents the sources of transactions entering the information processing system, the various tasks within the process that manipulate or transform these transactions, and the data repositories in which the transactions are stored or aggregated. A subset of these tasks is associated as the potential error introduction sources, and the rate and magnitude of various error classes at each such task are probabilistically modeled. This model can be used to predict how changes in transactions volumes and business processes impact data quality at the aggregate level in the data repositories. The model can also account for the presence of error correcting controls and assess how the placement and effectiveness of these controls alter the propagation and aggregation of errors. Optimization techniques are used for the placement of error correcting controls that meet target quality requirements while minimizing the cost of operating these controls. This analysis also contributes to the development of business “dashboards” that allow decision-makers to monitor and react to key performance indicators (KPIs) based on aggregation of the transactions being processed. Data quality estimation in real time provides the accuracy of these KPIs (in terms of the probability that a KPI is above or below a given value), which may condition the action undertaken by the decision-maker.

Disclosed is a method for operating a computer to pay one or more decision makers for attention. The method provides, via a computer, for an advertiser process in which an advertiser sets the terms of an offer to pay for the attention of a decision maker for an organization. The terms define a decision and a decision maker, an amount of money to be paid, and provide rules for specifying how payment is to be split if more than one person influences the decision. The method further provides recipient process in which one or more users accepts the offer and provisionally receives virtual payment. The method further provides an inspection process for inspecting the recipient(s) and paying him / them according to their role(s) in the decision, as revealed by the inspection, and according to the terms of the offer. The method can include sub-methods for deterring cheating, also disclosed.

A social trust network is implemented in combination with a communication network capable of monitoring one or more parameters of communications. The social trust network includes a database containing trust data and possibly profiles of respective entities can be searched to return identities of entities such as subject matter experts with whom a user such as a decision-maker may wish to communicate; which communication may be facilitated by communication contact information corresponding to entities returned by the search. A plurality of trust metrics are computed from the trust data and search results are ordered based on a weighted sum of trust metrics, possibly including ratings of entities, where the relative weights may be manipulated at the will of the user. The monitored parameters of such communications are represented in data stored as trust data in a database which is thus adaptively developed through use of the social trust network.

A systemic logic method is used to convert objective and subjective data into meaningful business information. A graphical representation is created to allow the rapid and efficient comparison of the data generated, enabling the business analyst or decision maker to make and / or support decisions. The invention may used to identify strengths, vulnerabilities or opportunities for a business.

The invention relates to a factory intelligent workshop real-time scheduling system, and is designed to solve the technical problem that a management system of an existing factory intelligent workshop needs further improvement. The system is mainly characterized in that an intelligent processing production line of the scheduling system finishes research and purchase as well as installation and debugging of workshop machining equipment; an intelligent warehouse and logistics transportation system carries out scientific classification, storage and transportation on raw materials and substances, management of finished and semi-finished products, and analysis and management on storage data of the raw materials, the semi-finished products and the finished products; an intelligent production control system, by fully utilizing information technology, carries out control in multiple dimensions of production plan issuing, material delivery, production scheduling, completion confirmation, standard operation guidance, quality control and finished product bar code acquisition, and accurately conveys on-site information to a production manager and a decision maker in real time through a network; and an intelligent alarm system is used for monitoring environment and temperature and reminding a transfer robot to return, avoid obstacles and charge.

The present invention provides a way to more effectively estimate energy usage by devices such as servers, including traditional mainframes as well as other enterprise systems. One core idea surrounds the fact that when detailed power consumption information is unavailable for a specific configuration, power consumption is computed / projected / estimated by de-rating the maximum power rating by a power adjustment factor that would more closely project the true power consumption. Under this approach, the power consumption is then provided as a range specifying probable expected lower and upper limits for a given device. This range is more meaningful for planning and decision-making and shows the client a more likely best and worst case energy consumption scenario for their specific device(s), and hence is helpful for planning or server comparison decisions. Cooling, energy costs, energy efficiency, and energy expanded per MIPS are also projected and given as a range instead of a single number. This gives the IT decision maker more accurate information upon which to base IT decision-making.