Linguistic Goal Oriented Decision Making

A decision-making system comprising:

• a computing device including a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the computing device is communicatively connected to one or more data streams associated with a process and at least one input to the process, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to perform a method of attaining a linguistic goal output of the process, the method including:
• changing the numerical value of input data into fuzzy sets;
• aggregating decision rules to produce a decision set representing actions to take place on a decision variable based on a comparison of one or more descriptive rules defining the process, the descriptive rules each including at least a decision variable and a linguistic output value;
• converting the one or more fuzzy sets to corresponding numerical output values;
• and
• adjusting the at least one input to the process based on a numerical output value.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method of attaining a linguistic goal output of a hydrocarbon well control process using a linguistic goal oriented decision making system, the method comprising:

• setting at least one linguistic goal for at least one output value from among a plurality of linguistic goals;
• establishing a set of descriptive rules using historical data, each descriptive rule having at least one decision variable, and a linguistic output value, the decision variable representing an input to the hydrocarbon well control process;
• grouping the set of descriptive rules into at least one subset of descriptive rules according to the linguistic output value of each descriptive rule;
• and
• establishing one or more decision rules based on the grouped subsets of descriptive rules, the one or more decision rules describing a modification of a decision variable associated with at least one of the descriptive rules to affect the hydrocarbon well control process.