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Data processing: artificial intelligence December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/11

20110320386 - Extrapolating empirical models for control, prediction, and optimization applications: The present disclosure provides novel techniques for defining empirical models having control, prediction, and optimization modalities. The empirical models may include neural networks and support vector machines. The empirical models may include asymptotic analysis as part of the model definition as allow the models to achieve enhanced results, including enhanced... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20110320387 - Graph-based transfer learning: Transfer learning is the task of leveraging the information from labeled examples in some domains to predict the labels for examples in another domain. It finds abundant practical applications, such as sentiment prediction, image classification and network intrusion detection. A graph-based transfer learning framework propagates label information from a source... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110320388 - System, method and computer program for pattern based intelligent control, monitoring and automation: The present invention relates to control, monitoring, and automation. The present invention more specifically relates to pattern-based intelligent control, monitoring and automation. The invention performs pattern-based monitoring. It collects signal data from one or more signals. The signal data define signal data streams. It then transforms each of the signal... Agent:

20110320389 - Systems and methods for safety and business productivity: The present invention is a safety and business productivity system having the following components. One or more cameras capture video data having attribute data, the attribute data representing importance of the cameras. One or more video analytics devices process the video data from one or more of the cameras and... Agent: Kd Secure LLC

20110320390 - Method for identification, prediction and prognosis of cancer aggressiveness: A survival model, for each of one or more pairs of genes, includes a function of a corresponding measure of the ratio of expression levels of the pairs of genes. For each pair of genes, there is a corresponding a cut-off value, such that patients are classified according to whether... Agent:

20110320391 - Method and apparatus for predicting application performance across machines with different hardware configurations: A method and system for predicting performance of an application on a machine of a predetermined hardware configuration simulates the performance of the application under a plurality of different simulated hardware configurations; builds a predictive model of the performance of the application based on the results of the simulations; obtains... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20110320392 - Methods for predicting cancer response to egfr inhibitors: The presently-disclosed subject matter relates to biomarker profiling of samples obtained from carcinoma subjects who are candidates for treatment with a therapeutic EGFR inhibitor. More specifically, the presently-disclosed subject matter provides methods of biomarker profiling which allow one skilled in the art to predict whether a patient is likely to... Agent:

20110320393 - 100gbps security and search architecture using programmable intelligent search memory: Memory architecture provides capabilities for high performance content search. The architecture creates an innovative memory that can be programmed with content search rules which are used by the memory to evaluate presented content for matching with the programmed rules. When the content being searched matches any of the rules programmed... Agent:

20110320394 - Creation and revision of network object graph topology for a network performance management system: An embodiment of the invention comprises, providing an initial object graph to a database, the initial object graph being generated by applying a set of rules to resources included in a resource set at a specified time, or by revising a previous object graph at the previous time, the resource... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110320395 - Optimization of multi-channel commerce: Content provided by a decision engine system is described. Content, stored in a server system, is provided to a plurality of display units at a plurality of touch point devices. One or more features are determined to optimize the content provided to the plurality of display units. The content is... Agent:

20110320396 - Systems and methods for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations: Techniques for analyzing and synthesizing complex knowledge representations (KRs) may utilize an atomic knowledge representation model including both an elemental data structure and knowledge processing rules stored as machine-readable data and/or programming instructions. One or more of the knowledge processing rules may be applied to analyze an input complex KR... Agent: Primal Fusion Inc.

20110320397 - Impulse regular expression matching: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for matching regular expressions. A buffer of symbols giving a number of the last occurrence positions of each symbol is maintained. When two constants match on either side of a regular expression operator, the buffer of symbols is queried to determine if a member... Agent:

20110313953 - Automated classification pipeline tuning under mobile device resource constraints: An architecture and techniques to enable a mobile device to efficiently classify raw sensor data into useful high level inferred data is discussed. Classification efficiency is achieved by tuning the mobile device's raw sensor data classification pipeline to attain a balance of accuracy, latency and energy suitable for mobile devices.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110313954 - Community model based point of interest local search: The present disclosure describes a community model based point of interest local search platform. Specifically, logs of users that store selections while accessing a point of interest application are loaded into a database. The logs are of users that have similar demographic or other community attributes. The logs are then... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110313957 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method and program: A data processing apparatus includes: a learning section which obtains parameters of a probability model; a destination and stopover estimating section which estimates a destination node corresponding to a movement destination and a stopover node corresponding to a movement stopover; a current location estimating section which inputs the movement history... Agent:

20110313960 - Graph pattern recognition interface: In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated as including receive pattern data that includes transaction data relating to transactions between persons. Next, the system and method may include building at least one secondary network based upon the pattern data. Additionally, the system and method may include displaying... Agent:

20110313956 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: There is provided an apparatus including an information processing apparatus, including a behavior learning unit that learns an activity model representing an activity state of a user as a probabilistic state transition model from time-series data of the user's location, and that finds a state node corresponding to a location... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110313959 - Method and system for listing categorization: Embodiments of a method and system for listing categorization are disclosed. A category structure may be accessed. The category structure may include a plurality of categories for items. A set of training data may be accessed from a plurality of listings from at least one of supply data and/or demand... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20110313955 - Real-time intelligent virtual characters with learning capabilities: A system, method, and computer-readable instructions for real-time characters with learning capabilities. A plurality of rules are defined in a rules-based system, each of the rules defining a condition that determines a behavior of a virtual agent when the rule is triggered by the condition being satisfied so that upon... Agent:

20110313958 - System and method for empirical ensemble-based virtual sensing of particulates: A virtual sensor system and method for the estimation of an amount or concentration of particulate matter resulting from natural or man made processes comprising two or more empirical models arranged for being trained using empirical data from the processes, for receiving one or more signal input values from one... Agent: Institutt For Energiteknikk

20110313961 - Method and apparatus for routing data: A method of routing data through a router in a communications network, the method comprising receiving one or more data packets, each packet having a respective destination address and applying a lookup algorithm to each packet, said lookup algorithm being arranged to determine a respective route along which each packet... Agent:

20110313962 - Method for identifying emerging issues from textual customer feedback: Systems, methods and software products identify emerging issues from textual customer feedback. A message stream of customer feedback is received. The message stream includes a plurality of unstructured text messages from at least one homogeneous source. A time interval is established. The volume of text messages for the time interval... Agent: Overtone, Inc.

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20110313964 - Utility data processing system: A utility data processing system for processing data relating to consumption of a utility comprises: a fact memory for storage of facts relating to utility consumption received from fact sources, at least one fact source module for deriving facts from utility consumption data and adding the derived facts to the... Agent: Onzo Limited

20110313966 - Activity schemes for support of knowledge-intensive tasks: An activity scheme designer may associate an activity scheme with a task of a process model that includes a plurality of tasks, the activity scheme including a directed graph of nodes in which the nodes represent knowledge actions to be performed at least partially by human users, and in which... Agent: Sap Ag

20110313965 - Framework and system for identifying partners in nefarious activities: The invention is a method and a system for discovering collusion among a network of interacting entities. Collusion is defined as a conspiracy among two or more interacting entities to use deception or an unfair advantage for private gain above their peers or other stakeholders in their network. The invention... Agent: Infernotions Technologies Ltd.

20110313968 - Hyperlocal smoothing: Concepts and technologies are described herein for hyperlocal smoothing. The hyperlocal smoothing solutions described herein provide a smooth view of data and events across hyperlocal geographic areas by combining sparse data available with inferred or extrapolated data. Additionally, the hyperlocal smoothing solutions described herein make use of contextual analysis to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110313967 - Personality / popularity analyzer: A device receives communication information from a user device associated with a user, calculates an extrovert score for the user based on the communication information, and calculates a popularity score for the user based on the communication information. The device also calculates an interesting communicator score for the user based... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20110307429 - Automated classification algorithm comprising at least one input-invariant part: A classification algorithm is separated into one or more input-invariant parts and one or more input-dependent classification parts. Classifiable electronic data is obtained via a communication network. Using the classification algorithm, classifications of a plurality of data elements in the classifiable data are identified, where the at least one classification... Agent: Accenture Global Services Limited

20110307424 - Determination of training set size for a machine learning system: Automated determination of a number of profiles for a training data set to be used in training a machine learning system for generating target function information from modeled profile parameters. In one embodiment, a first principal component analysis (PCA) is performed on a training data set, and a second PCA... Agent:

20110307423 - Distributed decision tree training: A computerized decision tree training system may include a distributed control processing unit configured to receive input of training data for training a decision tree. The system may further include a plurality of data batch processing units, each data batch processing unit being configured to evaluate each of a plurality... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110307422 - Exploring data using multiple machine-learning models: A multiple model data exploration system and method for running multiple machine-learning models simultaneously to understand and explore data. Embodiments of the system and method allow a user to gain a greater understanding of the data and to gain new insights into their data. Embodiments of the system and method... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110307425 - Organizing search results: Many users make use of search engines to locate desired internet content by submitting search queries. For example, a user may search for photos, applications, websites, videos, documents, and/or information regarding people, places, and things. Unfortunately, search engines may provide a plethora of information that a user may be left... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110307426 - Personalized health risk assessment for critical care: A method for providing a personalized health risk of a patient includes receiving training data corresponding to a plurality of patients and target data corresponding to a target patient; generating model data based on the training data according to an anomaly detection method; either determining whether the target data is... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of Michigan

20110307427 - Personalized health risk assessment for critical care: Predicting response to adjuvant therapy or predicting disease progression in breast cancer is realized by (1) first obtaining a breast cancer test sample from a subject; (2) second obtaining clinicopathological data from said breast cancer test sample; (3) analyzing the obtained breast cancer test sample for presence or amount of... Agent:

20110307428 - Screening information for a coverage model: It is disclosed to determine whether information useable for a generating/updating process that comprises generating and/or updating at least one model for a coverage area of a communication node shall be discarded or made available to said generating/updating process.... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110307430 - Pareto sampling using simplicial refinement by derivative pursuit: A method of optimizing a plurality of objectives includes the steps of initializing a set of simplices; selecting a simplex from the set of simplices; computing one or more weights based at least in part on the selected simplex; and generating a point on a tradeoff surface by utilizing the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110307431 - Standardizing data used for monitoring an aeroengine: A method and a system for standardizing data used for monitoring an aeroengine, and including: operating over time to collect time-series measurements from the aeroengine; calculating from the time-series measurements a set of indicators Y=(y1, . . . , yj, . . . , ym) specific to elements of the... Agent: Snecma

20110307432 - Relevance for name segment searches: Improved search result relevance is provided for name segment searches performed by a general web search engine. Entity-related information is mined from web documents and search engine query logs, and metadata is indexed in a search system index. The metadata may include information identifying entity homepages, entity web pages at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110307434 - Method for detecting suspicious individuals in a friend list: A method is provided for detecting friend or potential friend candidates as being suspicious in an OSN. A processor is used to obtain at least one candidate as being a suspicious friend in the OSN. One or more risk factors are used in the analysis. Heuristics are applied to the... Agent:

20110307433 - Programmable device, heirarchical parallel machines, methods for providing state information: Programmable devices, hierarchical parallel machines and methods for providing state information are described. In one such programmable device, programmable elements are provided. The programmable elements are configured to implement one or more finite state machines. The programmable elements are configured to receive an N-digit input and provide a M-digit output... Agent:

20110307435 - Extracting structured knowledge from unstructured text: Embodiments of the present invention relate to knowledge representation systems which include a knowledge base in which knowledge is represented in a structured, machine-readable format that encodes meaning. Techniques for extracting structured knowledge from unstructured text and for determining the reliability of such extracted knowledge are also described.... Agent: True Knowledge Ltd

20110307436 - Pattern tree-based rule learning: A pattern tree is constructed based on a plurality of key-value pairs representing portions of a data set. In some implementations, the pattern tree may be used for learning one or more rules for interacting with a source of the data set.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110307438 - High-dimensional data analysis: Described herein is a framework for analyzing data in high-dimensional space. In accordance with one implementation, observed data and at least one input model parameter set is received. The input model parameter set serves as a solution candidate of a predefined problem (e.g., inverse or optimization problem) and is related... Agent:

20110307437 - Local causal and markov blanket induction method for causal discovery and feature selection from data: In many areas, recent developments have generated very large datasets from which it is desired to extract meaningful relationships between the dataset elements. However, to date, the finding of such relationships using prior art methods has proved extremely difficult especially in the biomedical arts. Methods for local causal learning and... Agent:

20110307439 - Methods and apparatus for displaying predictions associated with an alphabetic string: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for displaying an alphabetic string representing an amino acid sequence of an antibody in association with predicted characteristics of certain sites in the antibody. In an embodiment, a process causes a web based application server to receive an alphabetic string from a client... Agent: Xoma Technology Ltd.

20110302110 - Computer systems and methods for automatic generation of models for a dataset: A method of automatically generating models from a dataset includes multiple steps. First, a description of a view of a dataset is provided. The description includes multiple fields associated with the dataset. Next, a set of properties is determined for each of the multiple fields. Finally, the description is automatically... Agent:

20110302116 - Data processing device, data processing method, and program: A data processing device including a learning section which expresses user movement history data obtained as learning data as a probability model which expresses activities of a user and learns parameters of the model; a destination and stopover estimation section which estimates a destination node and a stopover node from... Agent:

20110302112 - Forecasting through time domain analysis: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for forecasting using a time domain analysis. One embodiment is a computer implemented method that receives plural cycle lengths identified in time series data and builds a model using a time domain analysis of the time series data. The model is used to predict... Agent:

20110302117 - Interestingness recommendations in a computing advice facility: The present disclosure provides a recommendation to a user through a computer-based advice facility, comprising collecting topical information, wherein the collected topical information includes an interestingness aspect; filtering the collected topical information based on the interestingness aspect; determining an interestingness rating from the collected topical information, wherein the determining is... Agent:

20110302115 - Method and device for information retrieval: A method of information retrieval, comprising: determining, using a microprocessor, Q generative models (λ) in accordance with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), said Q generative models being determined in an offline training; receiving a user query (q); choosing, using said microprocessor, N generative models out of the Q generative models,... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110302113 - Monitoring relationships between digital items on a computing apparatus: Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate file management on a computing device and/or across multiple computing devices. Actions of a user with respect to digital items on a computing device can be monitored and utilized to build a relationship table, wherein the relationship table comprises identities of digital... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110302111 - Multi-label classification using a learned combination of base classifiers: Multi-label classification is performed by (i) applying a set of trained base classifiers to an object to generate base classifier label prediction sets comprising subsets of a set of labels; (ii) constructing a set of second level features including at least one second level feature defined by a predetermined combination... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20110302114 - Systems and methods for turbo on-line one-class learning: Methods for one-class learning using support vector machines from a plurality of data batches are provided. A first support vector machine is learned from the plurality of data batches by a processor. A new data batch is received by the processor and is classified by the first support vector machine.... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110302118 - Feature set embedding for incomplete data: Methods and systems for classifying incomplete data are disclosed. In accordance with one method, pairs of features and values are generated based upon feature measurements on the incomplete data. In addition, a transformation function is applied on the pairs of features and values to generate a set of vectors by... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20110302119 - Self-organizing circuits: A self-organizing electronic system and method that organizes and repairs itself. A number circuit of modules can be embedded in a fabric. Each circuit module can calculate some function of its inputs and produces an output, which is encoded on volatile memory held together by a plasticity rule. The plasticity... Agent:

20110302120 - Addressing scheme for neural modeling and brain-based devices using special purpose processor: A special purpose processor (SPP) can use a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to model a large number of neural elements. The FPGAs or similar programmable device can have multiple cores doing presynaptic, postsynaptic, and plasticity calculations in parallel. Each core can implement multiple neural elements of the neural model.... Agent: Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc.

20110302121 - Environment-responsive people matching system and method: An environment-responsive people matching system and method matches people in accordance with inferences of mutual interests based, at least in part, on environmental conditions local to the people being matched. Other behavioral information, proximity, and mobility inferences may also influence the matching. Relationships with varying degree of affinity between matched... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20110302122 - Method and system for configuring rules for execution: Data-driven rules are eliminated from an application, and replaced with goal-driven rules that formally and completely characterize high-level business concepts, while enabling the resulting goal-driven rules to be executed eagerly using a forward chaining rule engine in a way that preserves the data-driven behavior of the original rules. A computer-implemented... Agent:

20110302126 - Evaluation predicting device, evaluation predicting method, and program: Disclosed herein is an evaluation predicting device including: an estimating section configured to define a plurality of first latent vectors, a plurality of second latent vectors, evaluation values, a plurality of first feature vectors, a plurality of second feature vectors, a first projection matrix, and a second projection matrix, express... Agent:

20110302127 - Method for identifying network similarity by matching neighborhood topology: A method of computing a measure of similarity between nodes of first and second networks is described. In particular, sets of pairwise scores are computed to find nodes in the individual networks that are good matches to one another. Thus, a pairwise score, referred to as Rij, is computed for... Agent:

20110302124 - Mining topic-related aspects from user generated content: Described herein is a technology that facilitates efficient automated mining of topic-related aspects of user generated content based on automated analysis of the user generated content. Locations are automatically learned based on dividing documents into document segments, and decomposing the segments into local topics and global topics. Techniques described herein... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110302128 - System and method for disambiguating non-unique identifiers using information obtained from disparate communication channels: The disclosure describes systems and methods for disambiguating a non-unique identifiers of real world entities (RWEs) detected by a computing network by dynamically identifying relationships between RWEs known to the network. The relationships are determined based on social, spatial, temporal and logical information known about the RWEs based on the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110302123 - System and method for scoring stream data: A feed combine is provided which receives a feed including content from at least one data source. One of a plurality of scoring methods is selected for scoring the content in the feed based on a velocity of the feed. A determination is made as to which content in the... Agent: Nhak, Inc.

20110302125 - Systems and methods for virtual sub-metering: The present inventors devised, among other things, systems and methods for estimating the energy usage of individual appliances based on cumulative household energy usage data and energy consumption profiles of the appliances. One exemplary system receives cumulative or aggregate energy usage for a building or other structure including a set... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110302129 - System and method for temporal correlation of observables: According to one embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to perform temporal correlation operations to determine if a plurality of observables correspond to a selected event of interest. The electronic device comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is adapted to store information representing a process template for... Agent:

20110295773 - Assisted clustering: Assisted clustering systems and methods are described herein that provide a user interface by which a user can easily create clusters and selectively associate data items with such clusters. Information regarding data item-cluster associations made by the user is processed by a recommendation engine to learn a clustering model. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110295781 - Apparatus and method for improved classifier training: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to maintain an original training set of labeled documents, where the labeled documents correspond to a variety of topics. A new labeled document corresponding to a new topic is received. The original training set of labeled documents is modulated such that the... Agent:

20110295780 - Apparatus and method for personalized delivery of content from multiple data sources: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when... Agent:

20110295775 - Associating media with metadata of near-duplicates: Techniques for identifying near-duplicates of a media object and associating metadata of the near-duplicates with the media object are described herein. One or more devices implementing the techniques are configured to identify the near duplicates based at least on similarity attributes included in the media object. Metadata is then extracted... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110295782 - Clinical decision model: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining a patient-specific probability of disease. The method collects clinical parameters from a plurality of patients to create a training database. A fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model is created using data from the training database; and, the fully unsupervised Bayesian... Agent:

20110295778 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data pool generation section which generates an unknown data pool, a learning sample collection section which randomly collects a plurality of learning samples from the unknown data pool, a classifier generation section which generates a plurality of classifiers using the learning... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110295777 - Method for building adaptive soft sensor: The invention discloses a method for building adaptive soft sensor. The method comprises the following steps. The input and schedule vectors are constructed, and a novel learning algorithm that uses online subtractive clustering is used to recursively update the structure and parameters of a local model network. Three rules are... Agent: National Tsing Hua University

20110295783 - Multiple domain anomaly detection system and method using fusion rule and visualization: The present invention discloses various embodiments of multiple domain anomaly detection systems and methods. In one embodiment of the invention, a multiple domain anomaly detection system uses a generic learning procedure per domain to create a “normal data profile” for each domain based on observation of data per domain, wherein... Agent: Quantum Intelligence, Inc.

20110295779 - Regular expression matching method and system: The present invention discloses a regex matching method and system, and relates to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: sorting multiple regexes into several regex groups, where all regexes in one regex group include a common string, which is known as a generic string; compiling each regex group... Agent:

20110295776 - Research mission identification: A system and method is described herein that automatically determines if a user of a search engine is conducting a research mission and then provides one or more research tools, one or more specialized searches, one or more directed ads, and/or one or more marketplace events responsive to determining that... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110295774 - Training svms with parallelized stochastic gradient descent: Techniques for training a non-linear support vector machine utilizing a stochastic gradient descent algorithm are provided. The computations of the stochastic gradient descent algorithm are parallelized via a number of processors. Calculations of the stochastic gradient descent algorithm on a particular processor may be combined according to a packing strategy... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110295784 - Error correcting method of test sequence, corresponding system and gene assembly equipment: The present invention provides an error correcting method of test sequence, which involves receiving test sequences, configuring high frequency short string list based on a preset high frequency threshold value, traversing each received test sequence, searching an area with the largest number of continuous high frequency short strings on each... Agent:

20110295786 - Belief propagation processor: A processor includes a first memory module for storing a first set of storage values each representing a respective input, and a second memory module for storing a second set of storage values in analog form. An analog module is coupled to the first and the second memory modules. The... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20110295787 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including an evaluation information extraction section configured to extract evaluation information including an object targeted to be evaluated and an evaluation of the object targeted to be evaluated from a linguistic expression given as information expressed linguistically by a user of interest; an... Agent:

20110295785 - Mobile e-learning method and apparatus based on media adapted learning objects: A method, apparatus and system of a mobile e-learning method and apparatus based on media adapted learning objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes processing an e-learning course based on a set of executable files and a number of auxiliary files associated with the set of executable files... Agent:

20110295788 - Method and system to enable inferencing for natural language queries of configuration management databases: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to derive a semantic network from a CMDB relationship graph which can then be queried in a natural way from a linguistic standpoint (i.e., using natural language queries). Because disclosed embodiments combine natural language queries with an inferencing engine the disclosed systems and... Agent: Bmc Software, Inc.

20110295789 - Context-sensitive dynamic bloat detection system: Methods and apparatus are provided for a context-sensitive dynamic bloat detection system. A profiling tool is disclosed that selects an appropriate collection implementation for a given application. The disclosed profiling tool uses semantic profiling together with a set of collection selection rules to make an informed choice. A collection implementation,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110295790 - System and method for providing instance information data of an instance: A method and system for providing instance information data of at least one instance. The method has the steps of generating a semantic representation of the instance on the basis of at least one instance data source, providing a semantic representation of a domain on the basis of at least... Agent: