Methods and apparatus for optimizing decision making

Details Methods and apparatus for optimizing decision making Methods and apparatus for optimizing decision making

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G06N 5/00 (2006.01) G06F 15/401 (1990.01)

Patent

CA 2124479

-31 - Methods and Apparatus for Optimizing Decision Making Abstract Techniques for optimizing decision making apparatus by instrumenting the apparatus and running it on test data which has the characteristics of the data upon which the decision making apparatus is to be used. The information providedby the instruments is then used to reorder the application of the criteria used by the decision making apparatus to the data. As disclosed, the decision making apparatus is a rule-based system which employs a decision network to evaluate the rules. The decision network includes within tests, between tests, and result caches which hold the data items which pass the tests. The optimization is done by rearranging thecondition elements of the rules so that the flow of data through the decision network is minimized. The decision net is instrumented with two counters for each test and a counter for each result cache. The counters for a test indicate how many times the test was performed on the test data and how many times the test failed; the counter for a result cache is incremented each time an item of data is added to the cache and decremented each time an item is removed. A function employing the counter values is used to make a list of condition elements by decreasing restrictiveness. The list and a graph of the condition elements which relates the condition elements according to shared variables are then used to reorder the rules, whereupon the decision network is reconstructed as required for the reordered rules.

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