Composition Of Analytics Models

• US 20090326885A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Rubin, Darryl E., Mital, Vijay, Voss, Florian, Gittelman, Arye
• Granted Patent: US 8,620,635 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]

Abstract

The composition of multiple analytical visual composition models into a single whole. A model importation mechanism allows a model author or other user import all or portions of other models. By so doing, the author might cause the following to be supplemented or changed in an existing analytics-driven model: 1) additional model input data as well to generate a supplemented set of model input data; 2) additional bindings between the supplemental set of model input data to the model parameters; 3) additional model parameters to generate a supplemental set of model parameters; and 4) additional analytical relationships between the supplemental set of model parameters. Accordingly, the author may borrow from models by other authors, allowing for effective collaboration in order to construct increasingly complex models.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to instantiate an analytics-driven model view composition application that includes:

a data-model binding component configured to bind model input data to one or more of a plurality of model parameters;

an analytics solver mechanism configured to solve for one or more output model variables using one or more input model variables and using a plurality of analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters;

a view composition mechanism configured generate a view composition that at least in part depends on a value of the solved one or more output model variables; and

a model importation mechanism configured to allow a user to import at least a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven model into a current analytics-driven model, wherein when a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements the plurality of model parameters with one or more additional model parameters and supplements the analytical relationships with one or more additional analytical relationships, thereby triggering the analytics solver mechanism to re-solve for model parameters within the supplemented plurality of model parameters and with the supplemented plurality of analytical relationships.

2. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the one or more computer-readable media are physical memory and/or storage media.

3. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the model importation component is configured to allow a user to import at least the portion of the analytics-driven model in a manner that the user does not explicitly specify the one or more additional parameters and the one or more additional analytical relationships.

4. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein when a portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements the model input data as well to generate a supplemented set of model input data.

5. A computer program product in accordance with claim 4, wherein when a portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the supplemented model input data and the supplemented plurality of model parameters prior to the re-solving for the output model variables within the supplemented plurality of model parameters and with the supplemented plurality of analytical relationships.

6. A computer program product in accordance with claim 5, wherein the analytics-driven model view composition application is configured to perform the following:

an act of binding the model parameters as input parameters to a plurality of parameterized view components; and

an act of generating a view of visual items corresponding to the view components using the parameter value(s) bound to at least some of a plurality of view components in the act of binding the model parameters.

7. A computer program product in accordance with claim 6, wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the view components.

8. The computer program product in accordance with claim 6, wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements the plurality of parameterized view components.

9. A computer program product in accordance with claim 8, wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the supplemented plurality of view components.

10. A computer program product in accordance with claim 4, wherein when a portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the supplemented model input data and the supplemented plurality of model parameters prior to the re-solving for the model parameters within the supplemented plurality of model parameters and with the supplemented plurality of analytical relationships.

11. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein when a portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model input data and the supplemented plurality of model parameters prior to the re-solving for the unknown model parameters within the supplemented plurality of model parameters and with the supplemented plurality of analytical relationships.

12. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the view composition component is configured to perform 1) an act of binding the model parameters as input parameters to a plurality of parameterized view components;

and

     2) an act of generating a view of visual items corresponding to the view components using the parameter value(s) bound to at least some of a plurality of view components in the act of binding the model parameters; and

wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the view components.

13. A computer program product in accordance with claim 12, wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the view components.

14. The computer program product in accordance with claim 12,

wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements the plurality of parameterized view components;

and

wherein when the portion of the pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it causes additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the supplemented plurality of view components.

15. A computer-assisted method for formulating an analytics-driven analytics model, the method comprising:

an act of binding model input data to a plurality of model parameters;

an act of solving for one or more output model variables using one or more iput model variables and using a plurality of analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters;

an act of generating a view composition that at least in part depends on a value of the solved one or more output model variables;

an act of importing at least a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven model into a current analytics-driven model, wherein when a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements or changes at least one of the following;

1) the model input data;

2) the binding of the model input data to the plurality of model parameters;

3) the analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters; and

4) the binding of the model parameters to the generation of the view composition.

16. The method in accordance with claim 15, wherein when a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven analytics model is imported, it supplements or changes all of the following:

1) the model input data;

2) the binding of the model input data to the plurality of model parameters;

3) the analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters; and

4) the binding of the model parameters to the generation of the view composition.

17. The method in accordance with claim 16, wherein the act of generating the view composition comprises:

an act of binding the model parameters as input parameters to a plurality of parameterized view components; and

an act of generating a view of visual items corresponding to the view components using the parameter value(s) bound to at least some of a plurality of view components in the act of binding the model parameters.

18. The method in accordance with claim 17, wherein the binding of the model parameters to the generation of the view composition is accomplished by providing additional bindings between the model parameters and the input parameters of the view components.

19. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to instantiate an analytics-driven model view composition application that includes:

a data-model binding component configured to bind model input data to one or more of a plurality of model parameters;

an analytics solver mechanism configured to solve for one or more output model variables using one or more input model varaiables and using a plurality of analytical relationships between the plurality of model parameters;

a view composition mechanism configured generate a view composition that at least in part depends on a value of the solved one or more model parameters; and

a model importation mechanism configured to allow a user to import at least a portion of a pre-existing analytics-driven model into a current analytics-driven model in a manner that causes the following to be added to the current analytics-driven model without the user having to specify explicitly the following;

1) additional model input data as well to generate a supplemented set of model input data;

2) additional bindings between the supplemental set of model input data to the model parameters;

3) additional model parameters to generate a supplemental set of model parameters; and

4) additional analytical relationships between the supplemental set of model parameters.

20. A computer program product in accordance with claim 19, wherein the one or more computer-readable media are physical memory and/or storage media.