Patent ID: 8719207

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: one or more processors; and a storage memory in communication with the one or more processors, the storage memory storing an enterprise application for providing automated decision in response to one or more events occurring within an enterprise supply chain application, wherein the enterprise supply chain application, when executed by the processors, causes the processors to perform procurement operations comprising: detecting, by a sense and response application, a first event within the enterprise supply chain application; receiving, by the sense and response application, a first set of attributes associated with the first event; analyzing the first set of attributes using at least pattern recognition; determining, by the sense and response application, a first context information for the first event based at least on the first set of attributes; analyzing the first context information; interpreting the first context using a logic element, wherein interpreting the first context comprises inferring new knowledge related to the first context; checking the new knowledge for a context inconsistency using the logic element; resolving the context inconsistency if it is determined that the new knowledge and the first context information has the context inconsistency; determining dependencies between the first event and the set of related events using at least the first context information; and generating, by the sense and response application, a plurality of responses, the plurality of responses comprising at least one short-term response based on the first set of attributes and at least one long-term response based on the dependencies using the set of rules and the first context information.