Providing support to human decision making

US10049334B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Yaniv Bernstein · Sydney, AU
• Rahil Garnavi · Melbourne, AU
• Juerg von Kaenel · Melbourne, AU
• Kent C. Steer · Brunswick, AU
• Xingzhi Sun · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 14, 2018
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/04
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method to provide an insight to a decision maker to assist them in deciding how to perform a task includes: determining a time constraint in which the task needs to be performed; adjusting an accuracy of a computer program designed to calculate the insight to ensure that the insight is generated within the time constraint; scheduling execution of the computer program; and providing an insight output by the executed computer program to the decision maker.