Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 10/06

20060242090 - Information processing apparatus and program for displaying tree diagram: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a memory unit which stores attribute information which indicates a characteristic quantity of each of components constituting a product, and parent-child relationship information which indicates a parent-child relationship between the components, a unit which calculates positions on a tree diagram of...

20060242092 - Method and apparatus for acquisition and administration of medical image data: In an apparatus and method for acquisition and administration of medical image data, the apparatus having one or more medical image acquisition modalities for image data acquisition that are to be operated via associated computers, at least one server with an image data storage and at least one workstation computer...

20060242093 - Methods and apparatus for decoding ldpc codes: Methods and apparatus for decoding codewords using message passing decoding techniques which are particularly well suited for use with low density parity check (LDPC) codes and long codewords are described. The described methods allow decoding graph structures which are largely comprised of multiple identical copies of a much smaller graph....

20060242091 - Prioritization of data: Prior art methods of receiving, organizing, and implementing the data transmitted to mobile devices, such as ESG fragments, have a great impact on mobile device performance and battery lifetime. Furthermore, in order to keep server side and client side ESG fragments in synch, any change in content of ESG fragments...

20060242095 - Diagnostic imaging apparatus, medical system and protocol managing method: A diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a protocol alteration history recording unit, a protocol alteration information detecting unit and a protocol alteration information displaying unit. The protocol alteration history recording unit records alteration histories according to protocols as protocol alteration history data. The protocol alteration information detecting unit detects an alteration...

20060242096 - Medical operation system: A medical operation system includes a controller for controlling a plurality of medical equipments, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data between each of the plurality of medical equipments and the controller in two-way communications, an information recorder which records, together with time information, information regarding the plurality of...

20060242094 - Radiography system, and program executable in console: A radiography system has a console, wherein the console includes: a console communication unit to communicate via wireless communication with a cassette, the cassette including a cassette communication unit to communicate with the console via the wireless communication, a radiograph acquiring unit to acquire radiograph data by radiography, and a...

20060242098 - Generating representative exemplars for indexing, clustering, categorization and taxonomy: A method for automatically selecting representative exemplars from a collection of documents. The method includes generating a representation of each document in the collection of documents in an abstract mathematical space, measuring a similarity between the representation of each document in the collection of documents and the representation of at...

20060242097 - Method for dynamic knowledge capturing in production printing workflow domain: A system and method are provided for managing a knowledge base system storing a plurality of data instances, each data instance including at least one field, each field having at least one item and provided with an associated field type indicating whether the field is allowed to have only a...

20060242099 - Sensitivity analysis in probabilistic argumentation systems: of dqs(⊥) are computed with respect to the assumption probability rj. Sensitivity analysis formulas ƒ(H,DH,j,D⊥,j,rj,δrj) are then formed from the partial derivatives to establish the relationship between a PAS output, such as the degree of support dsp( ), degree of doubt ddb( ), and degree of possibility dps( ), for...

20060235810 - Method and system for ranking objects of different object types: A method and system for ranking objects of different object types based on their popularity is provided. A ranking system calculates the popularity of objects based on relationships between the objects. A relationship indicates how one object is related to another object. Thus, objects of one object type may have...

20060235811 - System and method for mining data: A system and method for extracting data, hereinafter referred to as MitoMine, that produces a strongly-typed ontology defined collection referencing (and cross referencing) all extracted records. The input to the mining process can be any data source, such as a text file delimited into a set of possibly dissimilar records....

20060235812 - Partially supervised machine learning of data classification based on local-neighborhood laplacian eigenmaps: A local-neighborhood Laplacian Eigenmap (LNLE) algorithm is provided for methods and systems for semi-supervised learning on manifolds of data points in a high-dimensional space. In one embodiment, an LNLE based method includes building an adjacency graph over a dataset of labelled and unlabelled points. The adjacency graph is then used...

20060235813 - Learning management server using bayesian methods for adaptive hypermedia: A learning management system includes a content storage unit for storing learning content, a user modeling unit in signal communication with the content storage unit and having a user model, a personalization unit in signal communication with the content storage unit for personalizing the learning content stored in the content...

20060235814 - Method for isolating improvement opportunities from linear program output: The invention disclosed here is a method for isolating improvement opportunities based upon linear programming output. In particular, the invention allows the user to select variables and automatically connects those variables to their indirect variables and equations....

20060235815 - Process for the iterative construction of an explanatory model: A process for iterative construction of an explanatory model including at least one rule calculated from a plurality of experiments, each of which rules is associated with at least one indicator of the quality of a corresponding rule including determining a rule, of a set of new experiments in an...

20060230005 - Empirical validation of suggested alternative queries: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server...

20060230004 - Systems and methods for electronic document genre classification using document grammars: A system for classifying a genre of an electronic document may include a network processor configured to receive an electronic document and convert the electronic document to rich text format (RTF). The processor may be configured to parse the RTF document into lines of text ordered from top to bottom...

20060230006 - System and method for optimization of a database for the training and testing of prediction algorithms: A system and method are provided for the training and testing of prediction algorithms. According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention the method generates optimum training, testing and/or validation data sets from a common general database by applying a genetic algorithm to populations of testing and training subsets used...

20060230007 - Technique for providing care for an individual with dementia: A method for providing care to individuals with dementia is provided. Initially, personal information about an individual with dementia, called person-centered care data, is developed. Next, the person-centered care data is distributed to caregivers, and care is provided to the individual based upon the person-centered care data. The person-centered care...

20060230008 - Artificial neural network guessing method and game: A method for guessing, in an electronic game, an object that a user is thinking of, from a set of target objects, after asking the user at least one question, the method utilizing a neural network structured in a target objects-by-questions matrix format, wherein each cell of the matrix defines...

20060230009 - System for the automatic categorization of documents: The invention is an improved file retrieval and organization system, comprising a computer-implemented method of mapping files in a file space, and of locating files according to dynamic search functions. The invention further includes an interface through which a user controls the parameters of the dynamic search functions. The parameters...

20060230011 - Method and apparatus for an application crawler: A computer-implemented method is provided for searching for files on the Internet. In one embodiment, the method may provide an application crawler that assembles and dynamically instantiates all components of a web page. The instantiated web application may then be analyzed to locate desired components on the web page. This...

20060230010 - System and method for implementing decision systems: A method for implementing and operating a decision system is provided. The method comprises collecting one or more input cases. Each input case defines a relationship in a decision space upon which the decision system is designed to operate. The method then comprises providing a configuration file accessible by a...

20060224527 - Method and apparatus for genetic, fuzzy design: An apparatus including a genetic processor receiving a plurality of genomes, each genome of the first plurality of genomes including at least one of a device, a method, and an article of manufacture, wherein each genome comprises at least one gene, each gene comprising at least one allele; and a...

20060224528 - Split machine learning systems: Split machine learning systems can be used to generate an output for an input. When the input is received, a determination is made as to whether the input is within a first, second, or third range of values. If the input is within the first range, the output is generated...

20060224529 - Artificial intelligence and global normalization methods for genotyping: Described herein are systems and methods for normalizing data without the use of external controls. Also described herein are systems and methods for analyzing cluster data, such as genotyping data, using an artificial neural network....

20060224530 - Polycriteria transitivity process: A method for ordering pairwise value comparisons between members of a set, such as those comparisons made as part of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The process enhances the overall consistency in the set of judgments by aiding the decision maker in coping with large judgment sets and by preserving...

20060224532 - Iterative feature weighting with neural networks: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with feature weighting in neural networks are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes using a set of weights to scale input feature values. Then the scaled data are used to train a neural net model of the relationship to be learned. The learned...

20060224531 - Method and apparatus for computational analysis: A method for computational analysis includes collecting an application dataset and extracting one or more features from the application dataset in order to generate an utilization workload model. An apparatus for providing computational analysis is also described....

20060224534 - Method and apparatus for training a system model with gain constraints using a non-linear programming optimizer: Method and apparatus for training a system model with gain constraints. A method is disclosed for training a steady-state model, the model having an input and an output and a mapping layer for mapping the input to the output through a stored representation of a system. A training data set...

20060224533 - Neural network development and data analysis tool: A neural network development and data analysis tool provides significantly simplified network development through use of a scripted programming language, such as Extended Markup Language, or a project “wizard.” The system also provides various tools for analysis and use of a trained artificial neural network, including three-dimensional views, skeletonization, and...

20060224535 - Action selection for reinforcement learning using influence diagrams: A system and method for online reinforcement learning is provided. In particular, a method for performing the explore-vs.-exploit tradeoff is provided. Although the method is heuristic, it can be applied in a principled manner while simultaneously learning the parameters and/or structure of the model (e.g., Bayesian network model). The system...

20060224537 - Device for optimizing diagnostic trees of a diagnostic tool of a communication network: A device is dedicated to optimizing diagnostic trees for a communication network including a diagnostic tool adapted to analyze operating and/or configuration data of the network by means of diagnostic trees constituted of nodes each associated with a set of (at least one) network tests and interconnected by branches representing...

20060224536 - Genetic optimization computer system: A genetic optimization computer system comprises a model and an optimizer. The model defines the structure of a candidate solution to a problem as a plurality of objects in combination (A,B,C). The objects consist of defined parameters (x,y). The model also runs potential solutions to the problem and generates an...

20060224539 - Computer-aided image analysis: Digitized image data are input into a processor where a detection component identifies the areas (objects) of particular interest in the image and, by segmentation, separates those objects from the background. A feature extraction component formulates numerical values relevant to the classification task from the segmented objects. Results of the...

20060224538 - Machine learning: A first set of classifiers are trained to predict categories using attributes of cases. A second set of a classifiers are also trained to predict the categories using the attributes of the cases. In addition, the second set of classifiers use the predictions from at least one of the classifiers...

20060224540 - Control apparatus for injection molding machine: Test molding and mass-production molding are performed by an injection molding machine that includes a control apparatus in which neural networks are used. A quality prediction function determined based on the test molding is revised as necessary during mass-production molding....

20060224541 - Method and apparatus for pattern recognition for knowledge capture and customization: A method and apparatus for use in providing a framework for capturing and organizing knowledge in learning. In one aspect of the invention, the method of an embodiment of the invention includes the steps of determining patterns that experts use across different situations; customizing concepts and tools for people who...

20060224543 - Guidance system: A Feature Map and learning rule-based Classifier capability is demonstrated that maximizes performance of classifier decisions. The invention discriminates among a large set of cases to make the correct decision for each case and generalizes well by correctly deciding cases never seen before. The Feature Map capability consists of Kohonen...

20060224542 - Incremental evaluation of complex event-condition-action rules in a database system: In the scenario in which a rule set is defined for composite events, instances of the associated primitive events are added to a database-centric rules engine one at a time. Rules that rely on these events fire the corresponding actions when instances of all the corresponding primitive events are detected....

20060224545 - Computer hardware and software diagnostic and report system: The present invention tests computer systems for defects that are able to cause performance and functional problems. An agent application is first installed on a user's system. The agent application then retrieves problem data from the expert system library pertinent to the user's operating environment. The agent application tests the...

20060224544 - Pre-install compliance system: The present invention interrogates computer systems prior to software installations to ensure software installations operate correctly and do not conflict with existing hardware and software. An agent application is first installed on a user's system. When a new program is about to be installed on the user's system, the agent...

20060224546 - Aparatus and method for generating behaviour in an object: A hierarchical behavioural framework is used to generate and control autonomous and semi-autonomous behaviour in an articulate object. A behavioural controller is arranged to receive input associated with a behavioural action, to infer a plurality of behavioural parameter values using the framework, and to generate equivalent behaviour in the articulate...

20060224547 - Efficient simulation system of quantum algorithm gates on classical computer based on fast algorithm: An efficient simulation system of quantum algorithm gates for classical computers with a Von Neumann architecture is described. In one embodiment, a Quantum Algorithm is solved using an algorithmic-based approach, wherein matrix elements of the quantum gate are calculated on demand. In one embodiment, a problem-oriented approach to implementing Grover's...

20060224549 - Method and device for detecting clusters amongst a plurality of data arranged in orders: After initial clusters having only one component are formed, a conditional probability P(Ci|C′k) is determined for the cluster Ci being included in an order on condition that cluster C′k is included in the order. If P(Ci|C′k) is greater than a first threshold value S1, a new cluster Cn having all...

20060224548 - Population analysis using linear displays: The invention described herein includes a method of analyzing a population of individuals. The method includes entering the population of individuals into an information processing system. Each individual includes one or more properties. Each property includes one or more conditions and a numerical value. The method also includes displaying the...