ADDITION OF PLAN-GENERATION MODELS AND EXPERTISE BY CROWD CONTRIBUTORS

摘要

The subject disclosure is directed towards a web service that maintains a set of models used to generate plans, such as vacation plans, in which the set of models includes models that are authored by crowd contributors via the service. The models include rules, constraints and/or equations, and may be text based and declarative such that any author can edit an existing model or combination of existing models into a new model. Users can access the models to generate a plan according to user parameters, view a presentation of that plan, and interact to provide new parameters to the model and/or with objects in the plan to modify the plan and view a presentation of the modified plan.

主权项

1. In a computing environment, a system, comprising:
an authoring tool configured to allow an author from among crowd contributors to author a new model, the new model containing rules, constraints or equations, or any combination of rules, constraints or equations, by which the model is configured to generate a plan comprising plan objects; and a presentation mechanism configured to produce a presentation based upon the plan objects.