Patent ID: 7480640
Filing Date: 2009-01-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a computer system having at least one processor, at least one memory unit, an input device and an output device, a method of automatically constructing computer representations of a plurality of models from data and providing those constructed computer representations as models of physical phenomena or of commercially significant phenomena in memory for making predictions or for revealing previously unknown data relationships and for use by a human or use by a computer acting on behalf of one or more humans wherein the use is a basis for decision-making, comprising computer implemented steps of: a) using at least one sample set from available data; b) obtaining one or more goals for the models from a human or from a computer acting on behalf of one or more humans; c) obtaining ROC convex hull performance criteria for the models, wherein the performance criteria select models to satisfy the one or more goals; d) using a plurality of parameter choices associated with the methods; e) using a plurality of methods, and a plurality of parameter choices, for inferring a plurality of models; f) rating performance of the inferred models, based on one or more criteria; and g) constructing and evaluating weighted combinations of the inferred models with respect to the performance criteria.