Generic reasoner distribution of resources using a plurality of shallow reasoners, and a predictor server

A computer system for improving distribution of resources for a reasoning system including a plurality of data sources that each generate raw data that is to be processed by shallow reasoners before being provided to other components of the reasoning system to generate high-level inferred conclusions, the computer system comprising:

• a processing device executing a discovery module, protocol management module, and a resource allocations management module,
• the discovery module to discover available data sources from the plurality of data sources by discovery of protocol modules executed by devices associated with each data source,
• the protocol management module to collect capability information from each protocol module for each associated device, and
• the resource allocation management module to send the capability information to a predictor server and to obtain a resource allocation plan from the predictor server that identifies devices associated with the plurality of data sources for executing shallow reasoners, the devices selected based on a usage model and the capability information.