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Comments: 1 +-   IBM touts complex math to help handle disasters-> on Thursday April 03 2008, @12:10PM coondoggie

Submitted by coondoggie on Thursday April 03 2008, @12:10PM
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coondoggie writes "Call it IBM's Math-To-The-Rescue Program. Big Blue this week said its researchers had created specialized algorithms to help model and manage natural disasters such as wildfires, floods and diseases. The idea is to use high-level math techniques, which IBM calls Stochastic programming, to help speed up and simplify complex tasks such as determining the fastest route to deliver packages, detecting fraud in health insurance claims, automating complex risk decisions for international financial institutions, scheduling supply chain and production at a manufacturing plant to maximize efficiency or detecting patterns in medical data for new insights and breakthroughs. IBM scientists developed a large-scale strategic budgeting framework based on Stochastic algorithms for managing natural disaster events, with a focus on better preparedness for future uncertain disaster scenarios. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26605"
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