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METHOD FOR MONITORING A DECISION-MAKING PROCESS WHEN PURSUING AN OBJECTIVE IN ECONOMIC, TECHNICAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS

  • US 20080215521A1
  • Filed: 09/26/2007
  • Published: 09/04/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method enabling knowledge managers to make a decision after discovery of an abnormality in actual data in an economic, technical, or organizational field, to counteract the abnormality, the method including:

  • creating a system of agents, comprising cognitive agents, creator agents of portable knowledge objects, and constructor agents of knowledge objects, by addition of supplementary knowledge elements to created knowledge objects;

    causing the system of agents to start a decision-making process following the discovery of an abnormality in actual data of the field of application by creation of an initial knowledge object representing an alarm index;

    establishing a plurality of decisional paths lied to the knowledge object under different points of view established by different agents, each agent working in a field corresponding to the point of view for which a decisional path is established;

    merging the decisional paths; and

    making a decision, following merging of the decisional paths, and counteracting the abnormality discovered, wherein the decision-making process reaches a final decision stage by passing through a first stage called presumption, constituting a weak switch in reasoning, reflecting a simple trend, and a strong switch decision stage, which clearly indicates direction in which the reasoning must progress.

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