Consultancy

InferSpace specializes in solving complex decision problems. Our extensive knowledge and experience of decision-making techniques enables us to tackle a wide variety of problems from fields as diverse as strategic planning, medical diagnosis, anti-terrorism, drug development, and computer game design. Applications include

• Constructing a robust long-term business strategy from a set of candidate strategies.
• Developing a medical decision-support system to diagnose acute abdominal pain
• Assessing the risk of a flight path to missile attacks.
• Discovering the structural characteristics of antibiotic peptides.
• Programming a computer to play 'intelligently' against a human opponent.

Our methods originate from decision analysis, statistics, operations research, and artificial intelligence. Examples include.

• ( from decision analysis ) Decision trees; Influence diagrams.
• ( from statistics ) Bayesian networks; Hidden Markov models; Data mining.
• ( from operations research ) Dynamic programming; Queueing theory; Game theory.
• ( from artificial intelligence ) Neural networks; Agent-based models; Evolutionary computation; Knowlege-based systems.

Our philosophy is to use the best and most appropriate techniques to help you with your decision-making problems; consequently, we never use a complex method for a given problem when a simpler approach will do.