Determining causal models for controlling environments

A system comprising one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by the one or more computers cause the one or more computers to repeatedly perform the following:

• identify a procedural instance, wherein the procedural instance is a segment of the environment to which control settings are to be applied;
• select control settings for the procedural instance, comprising, for a particular one of the controllable elements:
• assign the procedural instance to a cluster for the particular controllable element in accordance with current values of a set of clustering parameters for the particular controllable element;
• determine that optimal settings for one of the controllable elements or for one of the internal parameters are approaching a boundary of the search space;
• and
• receive authorization input from a user, based upon a request displayed to the user, to expand the space of possible values for the controllable element for the cluster to which the procedural instance was assigned.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to repeatedly perform the following:

• identifying a procedural instance, wherein the procedural instance is a segment of the environment to which control settings are to be applied;
• selecting control settings for the procedural instance, comprising, for a particular one of the controllable elements:
• assigning the procedural instance to a cluster for the particular controllable element in accordance with current values of a set of clustering parameters for the particular controllable element;
• determining that optimal settings for one of the controllable elements or for one of the internal parameters are approaching a boundary of the search space;
• and
• receiving authorization input from a user, based upon a request displayed to the user, to expand the space of possible values for the controllable element for the cluster to which the procedural instance was assigned.