Computer implemented system for integrating active and simulated decisionmaking processes

US5764953A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · US

Inventors

• John Collins · Hudson, US
• Elizabeth M. Sisley · Woodbury, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 1995
• Grant date: Jun 9, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system that integrates active and simulated decisionmaking processes generates decisions in response to events representing changes in a domain model, and updates the domain model according to the decisions. The system includes a real-time mode for generating recommendations in response to real-time events, and a simulation mode for generating recommendations in response to simulated events. The simulation mode is capable of running on either randomly generated domain events or real-time domain events captured during the real-time mode. In addition, the simulation mode does not require development of a separate domain model for simulation. Rather, the simulation mode may use the contents of a domain model established during the real-time mode. Integration of an active decisionmaking tool with a simulation tool thereby eliminates the cost of constructing a separate simulation model, and avoids invalidation of the contents of the simulation model over time.