ICAR Systems develops expert systems and software for tax, legal, and other knowledge domains. It addresses the problems of highly regulated environments being complex and difficult to understand by creating knowledge bases that break regulations down into an interactive question and answer system. This allows regulations to be more accessible and easily used through a natural language interface that can provide explanations, what-if scenarios, and automatically generate documents. Current products focus on U.S. tax law and the technology can be applied to medical and educational domains, though developing initial knowledge bases requires significant expert hours.

1. ICAR SYSTEMS
Information, Consulting and Reasoning
project
We develop software platform and expert systems
for use in tax, legal and other knowledge domains.
http://www.icarsystems.org
Sergiy Fedorov - CEO, inventor and patent holding
1997 – 2010 several copyrights and patent pending in Ukraine and the USA
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2. PROBLEM ADDRESSED
 highly regulated legal environment
 regulations surround us and require for
our attention
 ability to easily find text of law does not
solve the problem
 regulations may be complex,
cumbersome, or ambiguous, have
referrals to other laws, etc.
Current solutions are:
to learn the subject by self 
spending time and effort,
or
pass it to an expert 
spending money
TITLE 26 > Subtitle A > CHAPTER 1 > Subchapter N >
PART I > § 861
§ 861. Income from sources within the United States
(a) Gross income from sources within United States
The following items of gross income shall be treated
as income from sources within the United States:
(1) Interest
Interest from the United States or the District of
Columbia, and interest on bonds, notes, or other
interest-bearing obligations of noncorporate
residents or domestic corporations not including—
(A) interest from a resident alien individual or
domestic corporation, if such individual or
corporation meets the 80-percent foreign business
requirements of subsection (c)(1),
(B) interest—
(i) on deposits with a foreign branch of a domestic
corporation or a domestic partnership if such branch
is engaged in the commercial banking business, and
(ii) on amounts satisfying the requirements of
subparagraph (B) of section 871 (i)(3) which are paid
by a foreign branch of a domestic corporation or a
domestic partnership, and
(C) in the case of a foreign partnership, which is
predominantly engaged in the active conduct of a
trade or business outside the United States, any
interest not paid by a trade or business engaged in
by the partnership in the United States and not
allocable to income which is effectively connected
(or treated as effectively connected) with the
conduct of a trade or business in the United States.
(2) Dividends
The amount received as dividends—
(A) from a domestic corporation other than a
corporation which has an election in effect under
section 936, or
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3. OUR SOLUTION
• Break down complex text regulations into Expert
systems Knowledge Bases
• Provide Users service of automated, interactive, human
language, interview Consulting and Intelligent
Document Creation
We make consulting (the use of knowledge):
 Easily accessible - cloud service –computers, mobiles - any platform
 Easily used – intuitively understandable – consulting is a process of
user interview on the consulting case with semi natural language
interface,
 Cover specific knowledge domain and FAQs,
 Ability of decisions to be Explained, run What-If and How-To
consulting,
 Building consulting case document or database.
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4. CONSULTING EXPERT SYSTEMS
Consulting with ICaR is as easy as:
1) Finding appropriate consultation,
2) Answering expert questions in a
defined context,
3) Receiving expert's opinion in a
Report of consulting.
Reasoning with ICaR is as easy as:
1) Getting expert's Explanation on
any of the made decisions,
2) Running WHAT IF modeling
consulting,
3) Running HOW TO planning
consulting.
On-line Demo at
http://www.icarsystems.org/icar-on-line-consulting
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5. OUR UNIQUE CAPABILITIES:
 ICaR Knowledge Base data structure and Inference Engine - a
U.S. patent pending software.
 Separation of Knowledge (legal logic) from the Procedure
applying software (Inference engine).
 Consulting in semi-natural Question-Answer mode,
Explanation, What-If and How-To reasoning.
 ICaR .Net object providing full web functionality.
 U.S. Tax state of art Expert Systems.
 Intelligent document preparation software.
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6. TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
We developed (U.S. patent pending):
A. Structure to represent User Information and Knowledge IF-
THEN Rules in a Knowledge Base in Relational model form,
capture and store them in relational database,
B. Inference Engine which allows to apply Knowledge Base to the
User Information for making Consulting decision, Reasoning
Why, What-If and How-To, over this information and Building
Documents conditionally based on the User Information,
C. ICaR Expert system shell that uses ICaR Inference Engine
.NET object and Knowledge Base structure.
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7. KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS
Knowledge domain to automate:
• US Tax rules and regulations
• Medical domains
• Other identification or “diagnosis” knowledge domains
• Educational use
Technology and Current Product Limitations:
• Expert hours consuming on first round of knowledge
acquisition
• Symbol manipulation vs. multimedia recognition
• Use for complex, not simple knowledge domains
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8. CONTACT INFORMATION:
Sergiy Fedorov
ICaR Systems
spfedorov@icarsystems.org
+38 050 3114183
November, 2010
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