PREDICTIVE INTELLIGENT SOFTBOTS ON THE CLOUD

A system and method for generating a prediction are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of time-based documents; receiving a user query including a time period of interest defining a subset of the time-based documents from which to generate a prediction; and a plurality of cloud-based software agents classifying the subset of the plurality of time-based documents into a plurality of classes for the plurality entities, wherein the plurality of cloud-based software agents intercommunicate using distributed processing, wherein each of the plurality of cloud-based software agents is dedicated to one of the entities in the plurality of entities; and generating, using at least one machine learning method, the prediction based on the subset of the plurality of time-based documents for at least one of a plurality of categories. However, other embodiments are disclosed.