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20080235159 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRICING AND CAPACITY PLANNING UNDER COMPETITION, IN ON DEMAND E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS WITH QUALITY-OF-SERVICE (QOS) GUARANTEES - There are provided an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for joint determination of price and capacity. The apparatus includes a price and capacity determination device for jointly determining a price and a capacity for a given item offered for sale by a given e-retailer, based at least upon market competition. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235160 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINT PRICING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION UNDER SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT - There are provided an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for joint determination of price and resource allocation. The apparatus includes a price and resource allocation determination device for jointly determining a price and a resource allocation for a given item or service offered for use or sale by a given e-retailer to optimize a pre-specified objective for the given e-retailer. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING CANDIDATE PROCESSING NODES IN A STREAM-ORIENTED COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria. | 09-25-2008 |
20080235703 | On-Demand Utility Services Utilizing Yield Management - Techniques for provision of on-demand utility services utilizing a yield management framework are disclosed. For example, in one illustrative aspect of the invention, a system for managing one or more computing resources associated with a computing center comprises: (i) a resource management subsystem for managing the one or more computing resources associated with the computing center, wherein the computing center is able to provide one or more computing services in response to one or more customer demands; and (ii) a yield management subsystem coupled to the resource management subsystem, wherein the yield management subsystem optimizes provision of the one or more computing services in accordance with the resource management subsystem and the one or more computing resources. | 09-25-2008 |
20080243660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORECASTING USING AN ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING DATABASE - A method (and system) for providing a forecast, the method including providing a multi-dimensional database storing data at a lowest level in a first dimension, calculating a first forecast at a level that is higher than the lowest level of a first dimension in the database, calculating a forecast for each category within the lowest level of the first dimension, aggregating a second forecast across all categories at the lowest level of the first dimension based upon an aggregation of the calculated forecasts for each category within the lowest level of the first dimension, determining a difference between the first forecast and the second forecast, and storing the difference in a dummy category at the lowest level of the first dimension. | 10-02-2008 |
20080313101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPACITY- AND VALUE-BASED PRICING MODEL FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - A method and structure for pricing a good or service to a customer includes a calculator that executes a pricing model that includes a dimension of a utility of the good or service to the customer. | 12-18-2008 |
20090043893 | Multiple Resource Control-Advisor for Management of Distributed or Web-Based Systems - A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system and method enables achieving a better level of performance than would occur in the computing system using only existing mechanism. It permits, with very low computational overhead, achieving or driving the system closer to a user-defined system performance objective. To do so, a system performance equation is defined to determine a level of performance of the system as a function of the allocation of two or more system resources among a plurality of system resource demands or processes. From this system performance equation, a plurality of resource-specific change equations is derived. Each resource-specific change equation is capable of calculating changes in the level of performance of the system attributable to changes in the allocation of one of the system resources. The resource-specific change equation yielding the greatest change in the level of system performance at a given allocation of all of the system resources and the system resource associated with the identified resource-specific change equation are identified. The allocation of the identified associated system resource to at least one system resource demand to provide the largest increase in the level of performance of the system, and allocations for all system resources are adjusted in accordance with the modified allocation of the identified associated system resource. | 02-12-2009 |
20090099760 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPANSION OF REAL-TIME DATA ON TRAFFIC NETWORKS - A method and structure of estimating traffic in a network. A real-time estimate of the network traffic is calculated, based on limited real-time data about the network traffic calculated in an offline phase and limited real-time data received in a real-time phase. | 04-16-2009 |
20090182599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE BUNDLING AND PRICING OF WIRELESS HOTSPOTS - A method (and structure) for providing services for wireless hotspots. The services are offered to selectively include bundled hotspots as well as single hotspots. | 07-16-2009 |
20090260068 | Efficient, Peer-to-Peer Captcha-Based Verification and Demand Management for Online Services - A system and method configured that may allow performing a human-computer verification including crediting a verified task from a first user to a second user. In additional embodiments, may allow the user to perform a computer operation that require human-computer verification based upon an amount of credits that the user has been provided. | 10-15-2009 |
20090327147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STRATEGIC COALITION BUILDING AND MATCHING FOR BUSINESS SERVICES - A computerized method (and apparatus) for coalition formation. One or more coalitional and/or service constraints are received and a feedback mechanism is provided for the coalition formation, as based on the coalitional and/or service constraints. | 12-31-2009 |
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20120010803 | VEHICLE ARRIVAL PREDICTION USING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES INCLUDING PASSENGER BUS ARRIVAL PREDICTION - A system, method and computer program product for estimating a vehicle arrival time. The system receives information representing prior travel times of vehicles between pre-determined vehicle stops along a vehicle route. The system receives real-time data representing a current journey. The current journey refers to a movement of a vehicle currently traveling along the route. The system calculates a regular trend representing the current journey based on the received prior travel times information and the received real-time data. The system computes a deviation from the regular trend in the current journey. The system determines a future traffic status in subsequent vehicle stops in the current journey. The system estimates, for the vehicle, each arrival time of each subsequent vehicle stop based on the calculated regular trend, the computed deviation and the determined future traffic status. | 01-12-2012 |
20120109506 | REAL-TIME TRAFFIC ANALYSIS THROUGH INTEGRATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC PREDICTION AND TRAFFIC MICROSIMULATION MODELS - A system, method and computer program product for forecasting a vehicle traffic condition in a near future. The system comprises a traffic prediction tool, a turning percentage prediction module and a simulation tool. The traffic prediction tool estimates a traffic speed and volume in a traffic link. A traffic link refers to a portion of a traffic road where the traffic prediction tool is installed. The turning percentage prediction module estimates a turning percentage in the traffic link based on the estimated traffic speed and traffic volume. The simulation tool computes, based on the estimated turning percentage, the estimated traffic speed and the estimated traffic volume, an expected traffic volume in the traffic link. | 05-03-2012 |
20120173136 | ADVANCED ROUTING OF VEHICLE FLEETS - A system, method and computer program product for obtaining a traffic route for a vehicle. The system receives information of a current location of the vehicle. The system determines a destination location or destination region of the vehicle. The system computes a plurality of available traffic routes from the current location to the destination location or to the destination region. The system estimates a potential demand for at least one potential passenger from the current location to the destination location or to the destination region per each available traffic route. The system recommends, to a driver of the vehicle, an available traffic route that has a highest estimated potential demand among a plurality of the available traffic routes. | 07-05-2012 |
20120203724 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM OPTIMIZER FOR A REAL-TIME COMMAND CENTER - A decision support for real time command center, in one aspect, classifies, using a decision tree, an observed network state of a network into at least one category. A meta-model associated with the classified at least one category may be selected from a plurality of meta-models, the plurality of meta-models having been calibrated using results of simulations of a plurality of scenarios occurring in the network. One or more action plans may be evaluated by running the selected meta-model with data of the observed network state. One or more recommended action plans may be generated for the real time command center, based on the evaluation. Actual network state data resulting from having applied the one or more recommended action plans may be evaluated and used to recalibrate the meta-model and/or the decision tree. | 08-09-2012 |
20120303816 | FAIR DISCOUNT FOR NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A method, system and computer program product for allocating network resources. In one embodiment, a service provider allocates an amount of the network resources to a group of clients, and the service provider receives a request from a client for a quantity of the network resources. The service provider negotiates with the group of clients and offers the group of clients an incentive to reduce the amount of the network resources allocated to this group of clients. The service provider reallocates some of the resources from the group of clients, based on this negotiating, to accommodate the request. In this embodiment, each of the group of clients provides a business value representing a value that would be lost due to reductions in the resources allocated to the each client, and the resources are reallocated based on this business values provided by the group of clients. | 11-29-2012 |
20120323646 | METHOD AND STRUCTURE FOR AUTOMATED CREDITING TO CUSTOMERS FOR WAITING - A method and structure for reducing customer dissatisfaction for waiting includes a queue monitoring subsystem which detects an entry of a customer into a waiting queue. A reward computing subsystem calculates a reward for the customer for being in the waiting queue, and a communication subsystem communicates the reward to the customer. At least one of subsystems is automated. | 12-20-2012 |