Patent ID: 6148274
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q,H04R

Abstract:
A computer method for estimating a solution by successively improving solution vectors, the solution vectors being set for a problem having time sequential information, said computer method comprising the steps of:(a) inputting time sequential information associated with the operation of a target apparatus;(b) setting an initial set of solution vectors;(c) presenting said time sequential information expressed by each solution vector to a user;(d) receiving a value from the user which is indicative of an evaluation by the user of the suitability for solving the problem of each solution vector;(e) rearranging in accordance with each value received from the user the order in which the tine sequential information expressed by each solution vector are presented to the user;(f) calculating a fitness value of each solution vector based on the value received from the user;(g) performing an arithmetical genetic recombination operation on the solution vectors in the solution vector set based on the fitness value of each solution vector, thereby constructing a new solution vector set; and(h) adjusting the target apparatus operating on the time sequential information inputted in step (a) based on the solution,wherein step (c) through step (g) are iteratively performed until one of a number of iterations of steps (c) through (g) and the fitness value of one solution vector exceeds a predetermined threshold, thereby estimating the solution for the user.