SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECISION SUPPORT SERVICES BASED ON KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AS QUERIES

• US 20130073504A1
• Filed: 09/19/2011
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Mohindra, Ajay, Sailer, Anca, Lillethun, David J., Dias, Daniel M.
• Application Number:
  US13/236,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073504A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Abstract

In a method for decision support, a request for information that is part of a context is received, data is generated in response the request, a knowledge model associated with the context is populated with the data, the knowledge model is populated with real-time data associated with the request, the knowledge model is executed, and a result of the executed knowledge model is output.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a request for information that is part of a context;

generating data in response the request;

populating a knowledge model associated with the context with the data;

populating the knowledge model with real-time data associated with the request;

executing the knowledge model; and

outputting a result of the executed knowledge model.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is received from a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the context is specified by a computing application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the knowledge model is an executable file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the knowledge model is written in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein populating the knowledge model with real-time data associated with the context includes generating a query that requests only data sources associated with the context to provide the real-time data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the query is written as an XML string.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the result includes a plurality of weighted decisions.

9. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to receive a request for information that is part of a context;

computer readable program code configured to generate data in response the request;

computer readable program code configured to populate a knowledge model associated with the context with the data;

computer readable program code configured to populate the knowledge model with real-time data associated with the request; and

computer readable program code configured to execute the knowledge model.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the request is received from a user.

11. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the context is specified by a computing application.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the knowledge model is an executable file.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the knowledge model is written in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

14. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein populating the knowledge model with real-time data associated with the context includes generating a query that requests only data sources associated with the context to provide the real-time data.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the query is written as an XML string.

16. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the result includes a plurality of weighted decisions.

17. The computer program product of claim 9, further comprising computer readable program code configured to output a result of the executed knowledge model.

18. A system, comprising:

a memory device for storing a program; and

a processor in communication with the memory device, the processor operative with the program to;

receive a request for information that is part of a context;

generate data in response the request;

populate a knowledge model associated with the context with the data;

populate the knowledge model with real-time data associated with the request;

execute the knowledge model.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is further operative with the program code to output a result of the executed knowledge model.

20. A method, comprising:

receiving a decision support request, wherein the request is associated with a particular context;

formulating a response to the request, wherein the response is formulated by populating a knowledge representation model associated with the context with real-time data required by the model and executing the model populated with the real-time data to produce a result; and

outputting the result as the response.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the method is implemented in a cloud computing environment.