# US 2025/0164943 A1 · Cooperative management system and cooperative management method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0164943 A1 - Document ID: US20250164943A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/695,072 - Filed: 2022-08-26 - Published: 2025-05-22 - Earliest claimed: 2021-10-14 - Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd. - Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd. - Inventors: Yaemi TERAMOTO; Hiroya MATSUBA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250164943A1 ## CPC - G05B 13/042: {in which a parameter or coefficient is automatically adjusted to optimise the performance} - G06N 20/00: Machine learning - G06N 99/00: Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass - G06Q 10/04: Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" (market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202) - G06Q 10/06: Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract A cooperative management system for causing a plurality of individual systems to operate in cooperation with each other as one overall system has a search unit that searches for and decides conditions of individual indicators or operating parameters which will improve an overall indicator, by using a relational model. The relational model represents a relationship between an overall indicator which is an evaluation indicator regarding the overall system, and the individual indicators which are evaluation indicators of the respective individual systems, or the operating parameters of the respective individual systems for controlling the individual indicators. Also, the cooperative management system has a notification unit that notifies the respective individual systems of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which are decided by the search unit. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A cooperative management system for causing a plurality of individual systems to operate in cooperation with each other as one overall system, the cooperative management system comprising: a search unit that, by using a relational model between an overall indicator which is an evaluation indicator regarding the overall system, and individual indicators which are evaluation indicators regarding respective individual systems or operating parameters of the respective individual systems for controlling the individual indicators, searches for and decides conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which will improve the overall indicator; and a notification unit that notifies the respective individual systems of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which are decided by the search unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, further comprising a model generation unit that generates the relational model based on the overall indicator and the individual indicators or the operating parameters. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The cooperative management system according to claim 2, further comprising a selection unit that selects the individual indicators or the operating parameters which are capable of controlling the overall indicator. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The cooperative management system according to claim 3, wherein the selection unit selects the individual indicators or the operating parameters regarding each of which a correlation with the overall indicator is equal to or more than a certain value. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, further comprising a search problem setting unit that applies the relational model to a search problem to search for the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which will improve the overall indicator. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The cooperative management system according to claim 5, wherein the search problem setting unit selects characteristics of the search problem by a formation method of the relational model. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, wherein the notification unit receives acceptability of each of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters, which has been reported to each of the individual systems, from each individual system; and if the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters are not acceptable, the notification unit receives constraints for the individual indicators or constraints for the operating parameters from the respective individual systems; and wherein the search unit decides the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters again based on the constraints. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, wherein the overall indicator is provided in plurality; and wherein the search unit decides the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters so as to improve the plurality of overall indicators. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The cooperative management system according to claim 8, wherein the search unit sets a range of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters, which are decided for the overall indicators with a first priority among the plurality of overall indicators, to be a condition for limiting a search range when deciding the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters for the overall indicators with a second priority lower than the first priority. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, wherein the search unit judges whether any conflict exists in a combination of the individual indicators; and when deciding the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters for controlling the individual indicators for the combination of the individual indicators with the conflict, the search unit sets an additional condition. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The cooperative management system according to claim 10, wherein the additional condition is an upper limit or lower limit of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The cooperative management system according to claim 1, wherein the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which are decided by the search unit are displayed on a display screen. ### Claim 13 A cooperative management method executed by a cooperative management system for causing a plurality of individual systems to operate in cooperation with each other as one overall system, the cooperative management method comprising each of the following processing: by using a relational model between an overall indicator which is an evaluation indicator regarding the overall system, and individual indicators which are evaluation indicators regarding respective individual systems or operating parameters of the respective individual systems for controlling the individual indicators, searching for and deciding conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which will improve the overall indicator; and notifying the respective individual systems of the conditions of the individual indicators or the operating parameters which are decided.