US Patent 8065250 Methods and apparatus for predictive analysis

Methods and apparatus for predictive analytics generally comprise one or more artificial agents and an agent factory. An artificial agent may be responsive to at least one of an internal data set and an external data set. Further, an artificial agent may produce a correlation data set relating an outcome data set and at least one of the internal data set and the external data set. In addition, an artificial agent may produce a predictability value corresponding to the correlation data set. The agent factory may be responsive to the outcome data set. Also, the agent factory may produce the artificial agent in response to the outcome data set.