| This reasoning service aims to predict the occurrence of phenomena within a specified time interval that extends into the future. The aim here is that an analyst can query the knowledge base with respect to the likely occurrence of events of a particular type within a specified interval of time, e.g. within the next week. An example use case for this service could be a situation wherein an analyst wants to identify all hazardous events that are likely to occur within a specific timeframe that is located in the future, e.g. return all hazardous events that are likely to occur tomorrow or within the next week. Clearly, as with many other queries, there is an element of uncertainty with respect to the occurrence of future phenomena, a phenomenon may or may not occur depending on the temporal unfolding of events in the domain. For this reason, the analyst should be able to refine the outcome of the query with respect to certainty parameters or confidence limits, e.g. 'return all hazardous events that occur in the future within a given timeframe AND for which you have an associated confidence estimate of 0.5 that such events will actually occur'. |