A solution engine (31) of a vendor's highly-automated adaptive computer
support system (10) for a remote customer (20) automatically generates
proposed solutions, e.g., sets of support documents, as a function of
diagnostic data received from a customer's computer system (23). The
automatically generated solution can be subject to expert review (35)
prior to publication (37) to the customer, e.g., when the automated
system assigns a low confidence level to the solution. In addition,
expert review can be triggered by feedback (39) from the customer once a
proposed solution is communicated. The diagnostic data, solutions and
feedback for an incident are packaged (at 41) as a "case" and entered
into an historical case database (45). A solution function updater (43)
updates the solution function as a function, at least in part, of the
expert review and customer feedback.