Conflicting expert systems
AssigneeFluor Technologies Corporation
InventorsIvo Willems, Michael Pye
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Abstract
An expert system for providing optimized recommendations regarding a construction project is configured to generate conflicting optimization recommendations. Multiple expert system engines are implemented, where each engine provides one or more recommendations optimized in accordance with the priorities of a functional discipline. A conflict engine will identify conflicts between optimized recommendations and will package the conflicts into conflict objects that are presented to a conflict user interface for resolution. The user could resolve the conflicts him/herself, or could configure a cross-functional conflict object to resolve such conflicts based upon specified resolution criteria.
Claims19
An expert system comprising:
- a computing device for executing a plurality of engines, the computing device comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium;
- at least two expert system engines configured to generate conflicting first and second optimization recommendations, wherein a first expert system engine generates the first optimization recommendation in accordance with a first functional discipline of a construction project and a second expert system generates the second optimization recommendation in accordance with a second different functional discipline of the construction project;
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- a conflict engine coupled with the at least two expert system engines and configured to:
- identify a conflict between the conflicting first and second optimization recommendations, respectively,
- convert the conflict into a conflict object including a predicted impact of project metrics, and
- present the conflict object to a user via a conflict interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.