Interpolating conformal input sets based on a target output

• US 10,353,891 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Williamson, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Torgrimson, Tyler J
• Application Number:
  US12/872,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20120054212A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,241 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2423 Interactive query statement specification based on a database schema
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing

Abstract

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for interpolating conformal input sets based on a target output. A database management system can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. A user can input or access a set of target data, representing an output which a user wishes to be generated from an interpolated set of input data based on an interpolation function. Thus, the average air temperature of a region may be known for the last ten years, along with various inputs including water temperature, wind speed, and other climate data. The target data can include an expected average temperature for the current year. The interpolation engine can receive the target temperature for the current year, and generate those water temperatures, wind speeds, and other input variables that will produce the target output temperature.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, input data for a computational modeling engine, wherein the input data comprises a set of inputs that is absent at least one input;

retrieving, by the processor, target output data for the computational modeling engine;

executing, by the processor, an interpolation function in view of the target output data to generate interpolated input data, wherein the interpolated input data comprises alternative sets of interpolated input data that each comprise a value for the at least one input;

displaying a user interface that comprises graphical representations of the alternative sets of the interpolated input data and enables adjustment of the interpolated input data;

receiving user input to select one of the alternative sets and to adjust the interpolated input data comprising the value of the selected alternative set; and

storing, by the processor, the value for the at least one input from the selected alternative set with the input data for the computational modeling engine.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the adjusted interpolated input data; and

combining the adjusted interpolated input data and the interpolated input data to generate a combination,

wherein the combination of the adjusted interpolated input data and interpolated input data comprises at least one of a set of financial data, a set of medical data, a set of demographic data, a set of engineering data, a set of network operations data, or a set of geographic data, and wherein adjusting the interpolated input data comprises changing values of the interpolated input data via the user interface and generating and presenting different sets of the interpolated input data on the user interface in view of the changed values of the interpolated operative input data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the input data of the computational modeling engine comprises first input data and second input data and wherein the target output data comprises first output data corresponding to the first input data and second output data corresponding to the second input data.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining the interpolation function, wherein determining the interpolation function comprises generating an average of ratios in view of operative input data and operative output data and wherein generating interpolated input data comprises generating the interpolated input data in view of the average of ratios.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the interpolation function further comprises determining a set of alternative interpolation functions of different orders.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a dialog element to present a user with the interpolated input data for acceptance or selection.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating the dialog element comprises generating the dialog element on a client machine operated by the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the combination of the adjusted interpolated input data and the interpolated input data conformally maps to the target output data of the computational modeling engine.

9. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor, operably coupled to the memory, the processor to;

receive input data for a computational modeling engine, wherein the input data comprises a set of inputs that is absent at least one input;

retrieving target output data for the computational modeling engine;

executing an interpolation function in view of the target output data to generate interpolated input data, wherein the interpolated input data comprises alternative sets of interpolated input data that each comprise a value for the at least one input;

display a user interface that comprises graphical representations of the alternative sets of the interpolated input data and enables adjustment of the interpolated input data;

receive user input to select one of the alternative sets and to adjust the interpolated input data comprising the value of the selected alternative set; and

store, by the processor, the value for the at least one input from the selected alternative set with the input data for the computational modeling engine.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the combination of the adjusted interpolated input data and the interpolated input data conformally maps to the target output data of the computational modeling engine.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is to generate a dialog element to present a user with the interpolated input data for acceptance or selection.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is to generate the dialog element by generating the dialog element on a client machine operated by the user.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is further to receive the adjusted interpolated input data, and combine the adjusted interpolated input data and the interpolated input data to generate a combination, wherein the combination of the adjusted interpolated input data and interpolated input data comprises at least one of a set of financial data, a set of medical data, a set of demographic data, a set of engineering data, a set of network operations data, or a set of geographic data, and wherein to adjust the interpolated input data, the processor is further to change values of the interpolated input data via the user interface, and to generate and present different sets of the interpolated input data on the user interface in view of the changed values of the interpolated input data.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the input data of the computational modeling engine comprises first input data and second input data and wherein the target output data comprises first output data corresponding to the first input data and second output data corresponding to the second input data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further to generate an average of ratios in view of operative input data and operative output data and wherein to generate interpolated input data is to generate interpolated input in view of the average of ratios.