Knowledge-intensive data processing system

A system comprising:

• a processing unit comprising one or more processors;
• and
• memory coupled with and readable by the processing unit and storing therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to:
• receive one or more updates for data stored in a computer system;
• determine a valid time for each of the one or more received data updates;
• update, in the computer system, one or more multi-temporal data items based at least in part on the received updates, wherein updating the multi-temporal data items includes storing the determined valid time and a separate transaction time for each of the one or more received data updates;
• evaluate a plurality of filter queries stored by the computer system and determine that at least a first filter query is configured to compute a result based at least in part on a set of underlying data that includes at least some of the updated multi-temporal data items, wherein the determination of the first filter query is based at least on the in part on the valid times determined for the received data updates;
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• based at least in part on the determination that the result of the first filter query is based at least in part on the updated multi-temporal data items:
• (a) perform a first execution of the first filter query using multi-temporal data corresponding to a current time;
• (b) perform a second execution of the first filter query using multi-temporal data corresponding to a previous time, the previous time corresponding to a previous execution of the first filter query;
• (c) determine a difference between a first result of the first execution of the first filter query using the multi-temporal data corresponding to the current time, and a second result of the second execution of the first filter query using the multi-temporal data corresponding to the previous execution time;
• (d) compare the difference to a threshold, the threshold determined based at least in part on a change in a value of one or more objects within the multi-temporal data, and the threshold used to determine a second invocation of the first data transformation process;
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• (e) upon determining that the difference is greater than the threshold, invoke a first transformative action on a first data object, the first transformative action associated with the first filter query.

The system of claim 16, the memory storing therein further instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to:

• store a second data object corresponding to the result of the first transformative action on the first data object;
• determine a difference between the second data object and a different data object of the same type as the second data object, wherein the different data object was generated by a previous invocation of the first transformative action;
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• invoke a second transformative action on the second data object based at least in part on a determination that the difference between second data object and the different data object is greater than a second threshold.

The system of claim 17, wherein the first and second transformative actions are part of a continuous data transformation loop application, and wherein the memory stores therein further instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to:

• receive one or more additional updates for the multi-temporal data stored in the computer system;
• update the set of multi-temporal data items based at least in part on the received additional updates;
• perform a third execution of the first filter query using the additional updates for the multi-temporal data;
• perform a fourth execution of the first filter query using multi-temporal data corresponding to a previous execution time of the first filter query;
• determine a difference between a result of the third execution of the first filter query and a result of the fourth execution of the first filter query;
• compare the difference to the threshold;
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• upon determining that the difference is greater than the threshold, re-invoke the first transformative action.

A non-transitory computer-readable memory comprising a set of computer-executable instructions stored therein which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

• receive one or more updates for data stored in a computer system;
• determine a valid time for each of the one or more received data updates;
• update, in the computer system, one or more multi-temporal data items based at least in part on the received updates, wherein updating the multi-temporal data items includes storing the determined valid time and a separate transaction time for each of the one or more received data updates;
• evaluate a plurality of filter queries stored by the computer system and determine that at least a first filter query is configured to compute a result based at least in part on a set of underlying data that includes at least some of the updated multi-temporal data items, wherein the determination of the first filter query is based at least on the in part on the valid times determined for the received data updates;
• and
• based at least in part on the determination that the result of the first filter query is based at least in part on the updated multi-temporal data items:
• (a) perform a first execution of the first filter query using multi-temporal data corresponding to a current time;
• (b) perform a second execution of the first filter query using multi-temporal data corresponding to a previous time, the previous time corresponding to a previous execution of the first filter query;
• (c) determine a difference between a first result of the first execution of the first filter query using the multi-temporal data corresponding to the current time, and a second result of the second execution of the first filter query using the multi-temporal data corresponding to the previous execution time;
• (d) compare the difference to a threshold, the threshold determined based at least in part on a change in a value of one or more objects within the multi-temporal data, and the threshold used to determine a second invocation of the first data transformation process;
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• (e) upon determining that the difference is greater than the threshold, invoke a first transformative action on a first data object, the first transformative action associated with the first filter query.