Patent ID: 6171109
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: G06N,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for solving a problem in an intelligent information processing device having an intellectual function in a form of a structured knowledge base, the method comprising the steps of:(a) defining a first level subject performing activities and a first level object to which the activities performed by the first level subject are to be directed, providing a request to define a problem at said first level with said first level object, and building a first level model from the first level object in response to a said first level subject's interest, said first level being corresponding to a first level of problem solving levels;(b) defining a current level subject performing activities, a request for said current level subject and a current level object to which the activities performed by the current level subject are to be directed, said current level being corresponding to one level higher than a previous level of the problem solving levels at which the last model is built up and said current level object representing activities of said previous level subject during a building of the previous level model,providing a task to be executed by the previous level subject with said current level object, andbuilding a current level model representing said current level object on the basis of an analysis of activities of said previous level subject;(c) repeating the step (b) in order to cause the model to be hierarchical until a problem solving level at which a given problem is to be solved can be achieved; and(d) sequentially interpreting a request to each subject at a level of hierarchically structured levels from the upper most level to the lower level, identifying a type of problems corresponding to the request and executing a particular activity in response to the request.