Patent ID: 7360201
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically identifying options in a project that includes existing components, said method comprising: generating representations of existing reusable components, wherein said representations comprise predicates, including preconditions and effects; storing said representations for retrieval; formulating at least one decision-support issue arising in said project as a planning problem, such that said planning problems is formulated as one of a state-space planner and a plan-space planner using at least one of said representations, said planning problem including: solving said planning problem using said one of a state-space planner and a plan-space planner and automated reasoning techniques to identify options relating to said project, wherein a resulting state is obtained by incorporating the effects of said action in a sequence from said initial state and said resulting state contains said goal state; and identifying a set of solutions to meet an optimization criteria for said planning problem by determining whether to automatically select said existing reusable components and whether to select a partial solution for said planning problem.