System and method for configuring sell bids
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJuhnyoung Lee, Ho Soo Lee
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Abstract
A system and method for configuring sell bids. The system and method uses rules and inference engines in order to configure sell bids in view of Request for Quotes (RFQ). The system and method includes a data aggregator that integrates data from two or more enterprise data sources into an aggregated enterprise database and a knowledge base generator that constructs a knowledge base by extracting at least facts and rules from the aggregated enterprise database and stores the facts and rules in a knowledge base database. A bid configurator constructs one or more sell bid candidates for one or more target RFQs by using at least one inference engine and the extracted facts and rules from the knowledge base database.
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A computer system for ranking one or more objects having two or more attributes, comprising:
- a data aggregator that integrates data from two or more enterprise data sources into an aggregated enterprise database;
- a knowledge base generator that constructs a knowledge base by extracting at least one of facts and rules from the aggregated enterprise database and stores the facts and rules in a knowledge base database;
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- a bid configurator that constructs one or more sell bid candidates for one or more target RFQs by using at least one inference engine and the extracted facts and rules from the knowledge base database.
The system of 1, wherein the enterprise data sources include one or more of (i) inventory systems, (ii) fulfillment systems, (iii) customer service systems, (iv) database systems that contain product information, (v) database systems that contain buyer information, (vi) database systems that contain historical information about trading and sales, (vii) database systems that contain market information and (viii) computer systems of trading partners including distributors and logistics providers.
The system of 1, wherein the knowledge base database comprises facts and rules stored in the form that is understood by the at least one inference engines.
The system of 1, wherein the facts are truthful data about one or more of objects including products, services, buyers, sellers, stock markets, sell bids, RFQs, and marketplaces.
The system of 1, wherein the rules comprise an “if” portion and a “then” portion, the “if” portion of the rule is a series of patterns which specify the facts which cause the rule to be applicable and the “then” portion of the rule is the set of actions to be executed when the rule is applicable.
The system of 3, wherein the at least one inference engine matches the facts against patterns and determines which rules are applicable.
The system of 1, wherein the one or more sell bid candidates comprise one or more attribute name and value pairs, each of which belongs to one or more attribute categories.
The system of 1, wherein the RFQs comprise one or more attribute name and valuerange pairs, each of which belongs to one or more attribute categories.
The system of 7, wherein the attribute categories include product specification, service specification and seller qualification.
A method of configuring one or more sell bids, comprising the steps of:
- aggregating data from one or more enterprise data sources;
- storing the aggregated enterprise data in an integrated database system;
- extracting one or more facts useful for bid configuration from the integrated database system;
- deriving one or more rules useful for bid configuration from the integrated database system;
- constructing one or more knowledge base systems by storing the facts and rules in a form understood by one or more inference engines;
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- constructing one or more sell bid candidates for one or more target RFQs by running one or more facts and rules from the target RFQs and the knowledge base system to the one or more inference engines.
A machine readable medium containing code for configuring one or more sell bids, the code implementing the steps of:
- aggregating data from one or more enterprise data sources;
- storing the aggregated enterprise data in an integrated database system;
- extracting one or more facts useful for bid configuration from the integrated database system;
- deriving one or more rules useful for bid configuration from the integrated database system;
- constructing one or more knowledge base systems by storing the facts and rules in a form understood by one or more inference engines;
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- constructing one or more sell bid candidates for one or more target RFQs by running one or more facts and rules from the target RFQs and the knowledge base to the one or more inference engines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.