Information processing system which understands information and acts accordingly and method therefor

An information processing system comprising:

• inputting means for inputting information;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of the relationship among situations, requirements, responses corresponding to the requirements, plans corresponding to the requirements and results of execution of processes;
• requirement inference means which retrieves said knowledge base in accordance with the information input by said inputting means to infer a requirement corresponding to the information;
• plan construction means for constructing a plan corresponding to the requirement;
• and
• predicting means for predicting a result of execution of the plan by performing a simulation of the plan constructed by said plan construction means.

An information processing system comprising:

• inputting means for inputting a command from a user;
• history storage means for storing history input information performed by said inputting means;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of commands;
• inference means which infers the possible next command to be input next by said inputting means said knowledge base in accordance with the information stored in said history storage means;
• and
• outputting means for outputting the possible commands inferred by said inference means.

An information processing system comprising:

• inputting means for inputting information from a user;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of a relationship among an attribute of each user, requirements corresponding to the attributes of the users and responses corresponding to the requirements;
• inference means which retrieves said knowledge base in accordance with the input information by said inputting means and the attribute of the user, the information of which has been input, so as to infer a requirement which corresponds to the information and the attribute of the user;
• and
• output means for outputting the requirement inferred by said inference means.

An information processing system comprising:

• natural language inputting means for inputting information in a natural language;
• a linguistic knowledge base having knowledge of languages;
• a global knowledge base having knowledge of common sense;
• analyzing means for analyzing, by using said linguistic knowledge base, the natural language information input by said natural language inputting means;
• a situation knowledge base having knowledge of relationships among situations, requirements corresponding to the situations and responses corresponding to the requirements;
• requirement inference means which retrieves said situation knowledge base in accordance with the result of analysis performed by said analyzing means to infer a requirement corresponding to the natural language information;
• and
• outputting means for outputting the requirement inferred by said requirement inference means.

An execution control system comprising:

• operation means which is operated by a user;
• executing means for executing a process in accordance with the operation performed by said operation means;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of operations to be performed by the operation means and the relationship among the operations and the attributes of the user;
• inference means for inferring the attributes of the user in accordance with the knowledge in said knowledge base;
• and
• control means for controlling execution to be performed by said executing means in accordance with the attribute of the user inferred by said inference means.

An execution control system comprising:

• operation means to be operated by a user;
• executing means for executing a process in accordance with the operation performed by said operation means;
• history storage means for storing history of operations performed by the operation means;
• and
• control means for controlling execution of the process by said execution means in accordance with the history of the operations stored in the history storage means.

An execution control system comprising:

• operation means to be operated by a user;
• executing means for executing a process in accordance with the operation performed by the operation means;
• history storage means for storing history of operations performed by said operation means;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of the operations of the operation means and the relationships between the operations and the attributes of the user;
• inference means for inferring the attributes of the user in accordance with the history of the operations stored in said history storage means and the knowledge in said knowledge base;
• and
• control means for controlling execution of the process by said executing means in accordance with the attributes of the user inferred by said inference means.

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• an inputting step for inputting information;
• an inference step which retrieves a knowledge base having knowledge of situations, requirements corresponding to the situations and the relationship between the requirements and responses in accordance with the information input in said inputting step to infer a requirement corresponding to the information and the situation;
• and
• an outputting step for outputting the requirement inferred in said inference step.

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• an inputting step for inputting information;
• a requirement inference step for retrieving, in accordance with the input information in said inputting step, a knowledge base having knowledge of the relationship among situations, requirements, responses corresponding to the requirements, plans corresponding to the requirements so as to infer a requirement corresponding to the information;
• a plan construction step for constructing a plan corresponding to the requirement;
• and
• a predicting step for predicting a result of execution of the plan by performing a simulation of the plan constructed in said plan construction step.

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• an inputting step for inputting a command from a user;
• a history storage step for storing history input information performed in said inputting step;
• an inference step in which a reference is made to a knowledge base having knowledge of commands in accordance with the information stored in said history storage step to infer the possible next commands to be input in said inputting step;
• and
• an outputting step for outputting the possible commands inferred in said inference step.

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• an inputting step for inputting information from a user;
• an inference step for retrieving a knowledge base having knowledge of a relationship among an attribute of each user, requirements corresponding to the attributes of the users and responses corresponding to the requirements in accordance with the information input in said inputting step and the attribute of the user, who has input the information so as to infer a requirement which corresponds to the information and the attribute of the user;
• and
• an outputting step for outputting a requirement inferred in said inference step.

An information processing method comprising the steps of:

• a natural language inputting step for inputting information in a natural language;
• an analyzing step for analyzing the natural language information input in said natural language inputting step by using a linguistic knowledge base having knowledge of languages and a global knowledge base having knowledge of common sense;
• a requirement inference step for retrieving said situation knowledge base having knowledge of the relationships among situations, requirements corresponding to the situations and responses corresponding to the requirements to infer a requirement corresponding to said natural language information;
• and
• an outputting step for outputting the requirement inferred in said requirement inference step.

An execution control method comprising the steps of:

• an executing step for executing a process in accordance with the operation of an operation portion performed by a user;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of operations of the operation portion and knowledge of the relationship between the operations and the attributes of users;
• an inference step for inferring the attribute of the user in accordance with the knowledge of said knowledge base;
• and
• a control step for controlling execution of a process to be performed by said executing step in accordance with the attribute of the user inferred in said inference step.

An execution control method comprising the steps of:

• an operation step in which an operation is performed by a user;
• an executing step for executing a process in accordance with the operation performed in said operating step,
• a history storage step for storing history of the operations performed in said operating step;
• and
• a control step for controlling execution of the process in accordance with the history of the operations stored in said history storage step.

An execution control method comprising the steps of:

• an operation step in which an operation is performed by a user;
• an executing step for executing a process in accordance with the operation performed in said operating step;
• a history storage step for storing history of the operations performed in said operating step;
• a knowledge base having knowledge of the operations to be performed in said operation step and knowledge of the relationships between the operations and the attributes of the user;
• an inference step for inferring the attribute of the user in accordance with the history stored in said history storage step and the knowledge of said knowledge base;
• and
• a control step for controlling execution in said executing step in accordance with the attributes of the user inferred in said inference step.