Patent ID: 9098810
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for recommending actions to affect an outcome of a process, the method comprising a computer system automatically performing the following: receiving from a user an identification of an outcome to be affected; processing a data set containing observations of the process, the observations expressed as values for a plurality of variables and for the outcome, wherein processing the data set determines behaviors for different variable combinations with respect to the outcome, the variable combinations defined by values for one or more of the variables; receiving an identification of one or more actionable variables from the plurality of variables; for pairs of a first variable combination and a second variable combination, wherein the first and second variable combinations are the same except that one or more of the actionable variables take first values in the first variable combination and take different second values in the second variable combination, predicting an impact of changing the actionable variables in the first variable combination from the first values to the second values by applying (a) the behavior of the second variable combination to (b) a population of the first variable combination; and recommending actions to change actionable variables based on the predicted impacts.