8911 results about "Performance index" patented technology

A method to generate a strategic business plan to improve operations, and to closely monitor various performance measures of an enterprise. This is accomplished employing a more comprehensive approach to maximizing profitability, increasing revenue, and explicitly considering risk. In particular, the method extends supply chain management using financial management considerations, extends financial management using supply chain management considerations, employs supply chain management techniques to improve financial management, and employs financial management techniques to improve supply chain management. The method uses information and models derived from at least one of the following business processes: accounting; cash management; funds management, financing, profitability analysis, risk management, loan management, treasury management, investments management, business development, order management, demand planning and forecasting, procurement, production planning, inventory management, transportation and distribution, and supply chain design.

The present invention provides systems and methods for obtaining, standardizing, aggregating, analyzing, reporting and delivering financial and operational information associated with one or more businesses. Business performance information having a user-defined format is obtained from a business and is standardized by mapping to a standard format, preferably using an automated process. Various analysis techniques may be performed on the converted business performance information and one or more performance reports and / or alerts may be generated and delivered. The standardized performance information also may be provided to requesting parties for additional processing. The present invention also provides a system and method for maintaining a database of aggregated, standardized business performance information from a plurality of businesses. Performance information from a particular business may be compared to representative performance metrics derived from the aggregated performance information to benchmark the performance of the particular business relative to similar businesses.

Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated process for optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, the method comprises: defining contact center business goals; planning at least one campaign to implement the goals; scheduling and deploying a workforce in accordance with the campaign to produce agent-customer interactions; measuring agent performance on the interactions to produce quality metrics; analyzing the metrics to produce a rating; combining quality metrics to produce performance indicators; and using the performance indicators in the planning step of a second campaign or another iteration of the first campaign.

A system and method for creating and managing a business process integration solution comprises modeling a business strategy including elements representing business measurements and initiatives according to defined business goals and objectives of an entity; modeling business operations of the entity in terms of business process elements including process tasks, artifact flows and artifact repositories, and business commitment elements including incorporating key performance indicators; mapping elements of the strategy model with artifact and process elements of the operations model; and, measuring business performance and comparing performance measurements against the key performance indicators. The business strategy and operation model process elements may be continuously refined over a solution development lifecycle as a result of process measurements and comparing. A business level modeling language is further implemented for formally representing the business operations.

The invention discloses an unmanned vehicle dynamic path programming method based on environment uncertainty, comprising steps of establishing a vehicle kinetics model, establishing a dynamic environment model and necessary conditions for anew programming a path, obtaining a motion state original value of the unmanned vehicle, a vehicle motion state original target value and a vehicle motion state candidate target value, generating a candidate path, obtaining an optimal path through selection based on a safety index and a rapidity index, and reprogramming the optimal path of the unmanned vehicle when the unmanned vehicle motion environment satisfies the condition where the new path can be programmed. Compared with the prior art, the invention can not only satisfy the safety requirement for safety driving, but guarantees the driving efficiency under the constraint of the vehicle model. The invention realizes the coordination optimization of the performance index through distribution of various weights, realizes the real-time planning under the condition where a plurality of dynamic obstacles exist, and effectively improves the safety of the unmanned vehicle driving.

The subject invention pertains to a centralized key performance indicator (KPI) framework and systems and methods of utilization. In particular, KPIs can be defined and centrally stored as data or metadata in a data store. Systems and methods are provided to enable, among other things, KPI definition, storage, identification of defined or available KPIs, and interaction with the KPIs. For instance, an interface is provided to allow KPI data to be requested and retrieved from a source such as a database. A generic application program or users thereof can then interact with and display KPI data without knowing anything a priori about the stored data or the structure thereof.

In one embodiment of an optical pointing device, an illumination system includes a plurality of light sources. Each light source is characterized by a unique set of illumination characteristics. Illumination characteristics include impinging angle, light wavelength, light homogeneity, and the like. A sensor receives electromagnetic energy originating at the light source to scan an imaged area. The sensor measures performance indexes associated with the light sources, which depend on the illumination characteristics. The sensor includes an imaging module, which may include passive filters, and control logic, which includes at least a DSP module and a light sensor selection module. Another embodiment includes additional signaling light sources that do not interfere with the illumination system and are for signaling to the user. A method to select the most adequate light source for any given surface is based on measured performance indices.

The invention discloses an operation and maintenance automation system and method. The system comprises a data acquisition module, a pre-processing and storing module, a prediction module, an algorithm evaluation module and an operation and maintenance monitoring management module, wherein the data acquisition module is used for acquiring key performance indexes and running states of monitored units in an operation and maintenance system through a network management protocol or a log file; the pre-processing and storing module is used for performing pre-processing work and sorted storing on data acquired by the data acquisition module; the prediction module is used for performing predictions, including a CPU (Central Processing Unit) load prediction and a disk load prediction according to the data processed by the pre-processing and storing module; the algorithm evaluation module is used for establishing an evaluation criterion of a prediction algorithm and the prediction module, comparing an actual value with a predicted value of the prediction algorithm, and establishing a self-learning process; and the operation and maintenance monitoring management module is used for interacting with operation and maintenance management personnel. A load prediction mechanism and an algorithm prediction model are established in order to finish predictions specific to resource use situations of CPUs, memories, disks and the like. Alarm information is analyzed by further referring to a load prediction result in order to give a relevant auxiliary decision. Resource expansion and fault handling are realized in a way of using scripts, an API (Application Programming Interface) interface and the like.

The disclosed I-CBTC mobile closed train operation control system applies wireless communication way to transmit information between ground control center and train, and comprises an ATS or CTC system, a DSU system, a CI system, a ZC or RBC system, a VOBC system, a dual-ring redundant backbone network COM_network system, a ground-train redundant wireless network DCS system, and interfaces among nodes. This invention normalizes and standardizes former function, performance index and interfaces, and reduces cost greatly.

A method for assessing improvement in hand hygiene practices using sanitation solution dispensers deployed within particular areas of interest in a healthcare facility or the like. Each of the dispensers has a counter associated therewith, with the counter producing a count indicative of actual events of a healthcare worker sanitizing his / her hands. Other data is acquired that impacts the number of anticipated hand sanitation events in this particular area of interest. From this data, a number of anticipated hand sanitation events is determined. Finally, a determination is made, from information obtained through actual observation, of the number of opportunities that healthcare workers will have for hand sanitation in the area of interest over a particular period of time. A performance index, indicative of compliance with hand hygiene protocol, is then obtained by dividing the difference between the actual number of hand sanitizing events and the number of anticipated hand hygiene events by the number of opportunities for such hand hygiene events. This index may then be used to gauge improvement or regression in hand hygiene practices in an area of interest, or to measure the effectiveness of intervention programs, or to compare performance between various areas of interest.

The invention discloses a method for testing the assembly performance of a rotor of an aircraft engine, which comprises the following steps of: firstly exciting and vibrating a rotor of an aircraft engine with a vibration exciter; obtaining a multiple carrier-coupled impulse response signal of the rotor of the aircraft engine with a vibrating sensor and signal-acquiring system software; analyzing the obtained multiple carrier-coupled impulse response signal of the rotor of the aircraft engine by means of dual-tree complex wavelet transform to obtain eight signal carrier-coupled impulse response signals of the rotor of the aircraft engine; and distilling the average assembly performance index of the obtained eight signal carrier-coupled impulse response signals of the rotor of the aircraft engine, wherein the assembly performance of the rotor of the aircraft engine is judged to be qualified if the obtained average assembly performance index is larger than or equal to 10, and the assembly performance of the rotor of the aircraft engine is judged not to be qualified if the obtained average assembly performance index is less than 10, so that the rotor needs to be repaired.

There are provided an antenna module-use magnetic core member, an antenna module and a portable information terminal provided with the same, capable of improving a communication distance without increasing a module thickness. In an antenna module (1) in which a sheet-formed magnetic core member (4) is stacked on an antenna substrate (2) on which a looped antenna is formed, one having a performance index, expressed by μ′×Q, of 300 or higher when Q is a reciprocal of a loss factor (tan δ=μ″ / μ′) expressed by a real part μ′ and an imaginary part μ″ of a complex permeability at an applied frequency is used as the magnetic core member (4).

The invention provides a multi-antenna wireless transceiving device which belongs to the technical field of communications and is suitable for a mobile communication terminal. The multi-antenna wireless transceiving device comprises a baseband chip, a radio frequency transceiver, a power amplification module, a matching network, an antenna selection switch and two or more antennae, wherein wireless transceiving performance indexes of the two or more antennae respectively correspond to different application modules of the mobile communication terminal; and the antenna selection switch is used for selecting one antenna from the two or antennae and controlling the selected antenna to be communicated with the matching network. By adopting the technical schemes, the invention enables that wireless performances of the mobile communication terminal are all optimized under various application environments, improves the customer satisfaction degree and is good for optimizing the mobile networkand improving the network capacity.

A method and system for improving performance within a contact center are provided. The method includes monitoring one or more Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) corresponding to the contact center having one or more agents associated thereto. The method further includes determining a weighted sum of the KPIs based on a weight assigned to each key performance indicator. Further, the method includes modifying one or more parameters within the contact center to improve the weighted sum of the KPIs when the weighted sum of the KPIs crosses beyond a threshold level.

A metric monitoring and analysis system including dynamic sampling agents located in monitored system elements and a service management platform. Each sampling agent includes a data adapter collecting metric data in a common format, a threshold generator for determining dynamic metric threshold ranges, an alarm detector generating an indicator when a metric deviates outside a dynamic threshold range or a static threshold, and a deviation tracker generating an alarm severity scores. The service platform includes an alarm analyzer identifying root causes of system alarm conditions by correlation of grouped metrics or forensic analysis of temporally or statistically correlated secondary forensic data or data items from a service model of the system.

Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs (Service level Agreements), and more particularly, systems and method for monitoring and controlling business level SLAs using probe points, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and business commitments. An XML (extensible Markup Language)-based specification referred to as BPCL (Business Process Commitment Language) is used to describe business commitments. BPCL specifications are used by a business process management (BPM) system to configure, monitor, and control business processes based on business commitments. Business Commitments and BPCL provide a path toward model-based management for dynamic e-business solutions.

The invention discloses a wireless network slice based resource management method, and relates to the technical field of an access network of wireless communication technologies. The resource management method specifically comprises the steps that the current network is divided into a plurality of different wireless network slices according to characteristics of all access services in the current network; a centralized upper layer wireless resource manager allocates a special second-layer wireless resource manager for each slice according to a transmission mode, resource demand conditions and service performance indexes in each slice and performs centralized resource allocation, each second-layer wireless resource manager is responsible for monitoring service operating conditions and resource utilization conditions inside each slice in the running process of the network, and meanwhile, resource adjustment among the slices is performed through distributed interfaces so as to meet dynamic changes of the service performance. According to the invention, a centralized and distributed combined two-layer resource allocation method is adopted, available resources are allocated for the slices in a centralized mode so as to reduce the complexity of resource allocation, and meanwhile, distributed resource coordination among the slices reduces the resource management cost.

The production process of health ceramic brick capable of releasing negative ion includes introducing nanometer negative ion powder comprising tourmaline 20-40 wt%, dravite 10-20 wt%, nanometer TiO2 20-40 wt% and composite RE salt 5-12 wt%, making the nanometer negative ion powder combined well with ceramic base and sintering at 1080-1200 deg.c inside roller hearth kiln. The health ceramic brick has stable negative ion releasing function in health level and radiation performance index meeting relevant requirement.

The invention discloses a test bed for testing comprehensive performance of LED modules in the technical field of LED measurement. A double-station mode is provided with two sets of independent automatic loading and unloading machines, a PCB (printed circuit board) detector, an LED module electrical parameter detector, an LED module light intensity detector, an LED module spectrum parameter and chromaticity detector, an LED module defect repairer and a qualified product and unqualified product sorter; and the LED modules of two different specifications can be tested at the same time. Multi-variety online quick test and sorting can be efficiently matched by adopting a rotary sorting mode, combining a computer and a motion control card and controlling independent operation of each tester. The test bed can be adaptive to performance test of the LED modules of multiple specifications, is simple and convenient to operate, has high automation degree, can effectively and comprehensively reflect the comprehensive performance indexes of the tested LED modules, and has actual significance for improving quality control of the LED modules and research on industrialized key test technology of the LED module industry.

A method and apparatus for providing learning capability to processing device, such as a computer game, educational toy, telephone, or television remote control, is provided to achieve one or more objective. One of a plurality of actions (e.g., game actions, educational prompts, listed phone numbers, or listed television channels) to be performed on the processing device is selected. A user input indicative of a user action (e.g., a player action, educational input, called phone number, or watched television channel) is received. An outcome of the selected action and / or user action is determined. An action probability distribution having probability values corresponding to the plurality of actions is then updated based on the determined outcome. The next action will then be selected based on this updated action probability distribution. The foregoing steps can be modified based on a performance index to achieve the objective of the processing device so that it learns.

The invention relates to the dynamic resource scheduling technique in the cloud computing field, and provides a cloud computing dynamic resource scheduling method based on the feedback and a prediction mechanism. The method aims to overcome the defects of the cloud computing resource distribution and scheduling technique in the prior art, and can achieve balance use of various computer resources in a cloud computing environment, obtain satisfactory load balance under small pay expenses and improve comprehensive efficiency of system scheduling. According to the scheme, various performance indexes of virtual machines are monitored in real time in operation processes of the virtual machines, operation circumstances of all the current virtual machines within a next short period of time are predicted according to the monitored various current performance indexes of the virtual machines and a virtual machine state prediction model based on state feedback when a task request comes, and the most adaptive virtual machine is selected by combining a prediction result and a required task type and the required task is distributed. In addition, the invention further discloses a corresponding cloud computing dynamic resource scheduling system applicable to dynamic resource scheduling.

The invention provides a route planning method based on a multi-target glowworm swarm algorithm and belongs to the technical field of route planning. The method includes: modeling a route planning problem, initializing the multi-target glowworm swarm algorithm, updating the glowworm position, determining a non-inferior solution set, updating an external archived file, judging whether a preset maximum iteration number is achieved or not, and determining a Pareto optimal route. The basic glowworm swarm algorithm is improved based on the Pareto dominant conception, and global searching and parallel computing capacities of the glowworm swarm algorithm are well used. Multiple route performance indexes are considered simultaneously during planning, a group of Pareto optimal solution sets can be obtained by planning once, and high flexibility is achieved. Further, the route panning method is different from traditional route planning methods for a single target and route planning methods of using a weighing method to convert multiple targets into the single target, and can better meet practical requirements of route planning.

The invention provides a method for distributed control of centralized clustering formation of an unmanned-plane cluster. The method includes the following steps: 1. determining unmanned-plane-cluster task nature of each task in a task chain and determining a feasible unmanned-plane formation form according to a flying environment; 2. establishing a formation optimization priority set for the unmanned-plane cluster from the feasible formation form and modeling, and determining static or dynamic optimization priority sets of different tasks according to different task targets; 3. according to optimization indexes of the tasks, selecting an optimal task formation or a suboptimum task formation, which complies with performance indexes, from a formation method of the static optimization set or the dynamic optimization set. The method for the distributed control of the centralized clustering formation of the unmanned-plane cluster is capable of efficiently, intelligently and flexibly changing and selecting a coordinative formation of an unmanned-plane cluster and has the advantages of being safe, stable and reliable.

The invention discloses a realizing method of stream media buffer transposition, which comprises the following steps: a request from a client side node is received, and the stream media object required by the client side node is obtained; whether the size of the stream media object required by the client side node is larger than current buffer space is judged, if the judgment result is yes, the transpositional factor of each stream media object stored in the buffer depending on the network delay, duplicate amount, size and popularity of the stream media object stored in the buffer is obtained, and the size of the transpositional factor corresponds to the size of the priority level that the stream media object should be transposed; the stream media object of the larger priority level in the buffer is transposed with the obtained stream media object. Meanwhile, the invention discloses a device and the system for realizing the stream media buffer transposition. The invention has the advantages of considering synthetically the factors affecting the buffer effect, optimizing the main performance indexes of the stream media server, and improving the utilization ratio of the resource.

The invention discloses a performance analysis method for a block chain. The method is applied to a block chain network, the block chain network comprises a plurality of server nodes and is deployed with a test program client, and the performance analysis method for the block chain comprises the steps of: the test program client sending a test request to the block chain network; when detecting that the block chain network responds to the test request, determining a performance index corresponding to the test request, performing statistical analysis on the test process of the performance index, and analyzing the performance of the block chain according to the statistical analysis result. The invention further discloses a performance analysis device for a block chain. The method and the device improve the performance analysis accuracy of the block chain network by deep analysis on a plurality of performance indexes of the block chain network.

The invention discloses a multifunctional H-type polyethylene glycol derivative and a preparation method thereof. The structure is as shown in formula (1) in the description, wherein a linear main axis LPEG and four PEG branched chains are included, and n1, n2, n3 and n4 are polymerization degrees of the branched chains, respectively; U1 and U2 are trivalent branching groups connecting the main axis LPEG with two PEG branched chains; F1 and F2 contain functional groups or their protected forms R01, and contain or do not contain branching groups G, and correspondingly, the number of R01 is one or more than one; F1 is the same as or different from F2; any linking group in the molecule or linking groups formed with adjacent heteroatom groups are stable or degradable; any PEG chain segment in the molecule independently shows polydispersity or monodispersity. The functionalized polyethylene glycol is diverse in branching structure and branching arm length, is adjustable and easily-controllable in various parameters and performance indexes, and is wide in application.

A computer-implemented method and system for assessing schedule performance issues of a project. A Behind Schedule Performance Index (BSPI), an ahead / behind trend graph, a behind schedule report or an ahead of schedule report is generated. The BSPI excludes an ahead of schedule component from the project's scheduled performance index. The ahead / behind trend graph has ahead of schedule and behind schedule indicators indicating that a portion of the project is behind schedule while the project, as a whole, is ahead of schedule. The behind schedule report filters out ahead of schedule tasks and includes only behind schedule tasks. The ahead of schedule report filters out behind schedule tasks and includes only ahead of schedule tasks.