Assistant for resource and demand trading
First Claim
1. A decision support system comprisinga source of demand information,a source of plurality of categories of resource information, wherein one category of resource information is performance capacity,means for storing and selectively accessing a plurality of solution generators,means for associating a portion of said demand information and a portion of said resource information with ones of said plurality of solution generators whereby ones of said solution generators allocate at least one category of resource information to correspond to said demand information to form a solution,means for evaluating each said solution, andmeans for communicating evaluations corresponding to a group of solutions generated by respective ones of said solution generators to a user.
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Abstract
A plurality of near-optimum solutions to allocations of resources to demand information are provided by consideration of different combinations of sources of resource information such as inventory and performance/production capacity of a provider and/or other providers by the use of one or more algorithm/agents and a problem formulator which selects algorithms to be applied and provides selected information from selected sources of resource information thereto. The effects of actions or allocations specified in the solutions are presented to a user for comparison, modification and selection for implementation. Effects of modified solutions are also projected for comparison with other solutions or modified solutions.
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1. A decision support system comprising
a source of demand information, a source of plurality of categories of resource information, wherein one category of resource information is performance capacity, means for storing and selectively accessing a plurality of solution generators, means for associating a portion of said demand information and a portion of said resource information with ones of said plurality of solution generators whereby ones of said solution generators allocate at least one category of resource information to correspond to said demand information to form a solution, means for evaluating each said solution, and means for communicating evaluations corresponding to a group of solutions generated by respective ones of said solution generators to a user.
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10. A computer implemented method, wherein said computer includes a source of demand information, and a source of plurality of categories of resource information, wherein one category of resource information is performance capacity, said method comprising the steps of
storing and selectively accessing a plurality of solution generators, associating a portion of said demand information and a portion of said resource information with ones of said plurality of solution generators whereby ones of said solution generators allocate at least one category of resource information to correspond to said demand information to form a solution, evaluating each said solution, and communicating evaluations corresponding to a group of solutions generated by respective ones of said solution generators to a user.
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