Currently, WWW, large enterprises, and desktop users suffer from an inability to efficiently access and manage differently structured data. The same data objects (e.g. Product) stored by different databases, repositories, distributed web storage systems, etc are named, referenced, and combined internally into schemas or data structures differently. This leads to structural mismatch of data that...

D. Lindquist H. Madduri C. J. Paul B. Rajaraman In this paper we describe the IBM Service Management (ISM) architecture, a serviceoriented architecture designed to automate and simplify the management of business services. We describe the four major components of ISM: portal-based user interfaces, a process layer that includes the process runtime and service management solutions, an information...

●● ● ●Automate routine administrative tasks to help reduce costs, improve productivity and enforce policy Every organization has a core set of mission-critical data that must be protected. Security lapses and failures are not simply disruptions—they can be catastrophic events, and the consequences can be felt across the entire organization. Mistakes such as unintentional configuration errors an...

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM) is the most common acquired myopathy occurring in adults aged over 50 years. The aim of the study was to assess prospectively the clinical features and functional impact of sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM). Clinical data, manual muscle testing (MMT), quantitative muscle testing (QMT) of quadriceps muscle and IBM functional rating scale (IBM-FRS) were...

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) belongs to a group of muscle diseases known as the inflammatory myopathies. The presence of antibody-secreting plasma cells in IBM muscle implicates the humoral immune response in this disease. However, whether the humoral immune response actively contributes to IBM pathology has not been established. We sought to investigate whether the humoral immune response in ...

IBM has recently been working with a number of partners to explore Augmented Reality (AR) technology, in order to understand how AR can enable new innovative and practical solutions for the future. Given their strong background in advanced graphics, image recognition and computer vision technologies, IBM aims to leverage their expertise in these areas to create compelling AR technology and solu...

As companies continue to rapidly deploy Intel processor-based servers in mission-critical areas of their businesses where continuous operation is expected, managing and controlling the costs associated with these servers will increase in importance. IT professionals across all segments of the market will expect servers to be enabled for manageability in any environment, right out of the box, an...

Over the past nine years, the Formal Methods Group at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory has made steady progress in developing tools and techniques that make the power of model checking accessible to the community of hardware designers and verification engineers, to the point where it has become an integral part of the design cycle of many teams. We discuss our approach to the problem of integr...