Adaptive travel purchasing optimization system

A computer-implemented travel purchasing optimization system (TPOS) for providing choices for business travel in response to queries, wherein the choices are based on a computation of a total cost of travel, the system comprises:

• a cognizer in communication with a knowledge base, a rule base and a knowledge acquisition and rule manager (KARM), wherein said knowledge acquisition and rule manager creates rules, including fuzzy logic rules, for said rule base using a rule modeling language, and further wherein, an external booking system transmits a travel request to an integration framework in communication with said knowledge base, and said integration framework collects data from a plurality of system connectors, and further wherein, said cognizer processes said rules, including said fuzzy logic rules, from said rule base with the data from said knowledge base so as to determine a total cost of travel in response to the travel request.