Auction procedure for use with a special purpose digital computer for an efficient achievement of limited resources in a competing environment
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1. An auction procedure for use with a special purpose digital computer for an efficient achievement of limited resources in a competing environment, including:
- a number of agents ai each of them capable of providing some contribution to a subject K involving some work, action or knowledge to be executed or already developed and authored by one of said agents in an environment or Arena;
an authority that certificates a number of account units on a given currency assigned as a result of a contribution of any of said agents ai;
in said Arena;
a wallet wi containing an amount of currency that belongs to a an agent ai at a given moment;
the method comprising;
providing a special purpose digital computer and operationally associating said Arena, said subject, wallets of said agents and said accounting units with said computer;
each of the agents ai before providing a contribution to a given subject making a bid in association with said computer on a predicted return on action (PRoA) referring, a predicted amount value of an action obtainable for a contribution given to a subject K in said environment or Arena;
said bid of said agent ai being based on a PRoA said wallet wi so that maximum amount of the bid is limited for the amount in the wallet;
for any of the agents ai entering into the Arena deduce the amount of the bid based on a PRoA from the corresponding initial wallet wi;
performing in association with said computer a check after at least a given period of time about the return value granted by said authority to a given contribution or (RoA) for any of the agents ai having entered into the Arena with a bid; and
adjusting in association with the computer the wallet wi of the agent ai in case the given contribution thereof has obtained a positive return value (RoA) over the PRoA used in the bid.
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An auction procedure intended to replace the known review process by an auction based approach is provided. The better a submitted work by an author, the more this author may bid to have it appear in some congresses or journals. If the assessment of quality represented by the bid is right, the author will be rewarded in some new sort of scientific currency, otherwise the author will suffer loses of the currency.
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1. An auction procedure for use with a special purpose digital computer for an efficient achievement of limited resources in a competing environment, including:
- a number of agents ai each of them capable of providing some contribution to a subject K involving some work, action or knowledge to be executed or already developed and authored by one of said agents in an environment or Arena;
an authority that certificates a number of account units on a given currency assigned as a result of a contribution of any of said agents ai;
in said Arena;
a wallet wi containing an amount of currency that belongs to a an agent ai at a given moment;the method comprising; providing a special purpose digital computer and operationally associating said Arena, said subject, wallets of said agents and said accounting units with said computer; each of the agents ai before providing a contribution to a given subject making a bid in association with said computer on a predicted return on action (PRoA) referring, a predicted amount value of an action obtainable for a contribution given to a subject K in said environment or Arena; said bid of said agent ai being based on a PRoA said wallet wi so that maximum amount of the bid is limited for the amount in the wallet; for any of the agents ai entering into the Arena deduce the amount of the bid based on a PRoA from the corresponding initial wallet wi; performing in association with said computer a check after at least a given period of time about the return value granted by said authority to a given contribution or (RoA) for any of the agents ai having entered into the Arena with a bid; and adjusting in association with the computer the wallet wi of the agent ai in case the given contribution thereof has obtained a positive return value (RoA) over the PRoA used in the bid. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
- a number of agents ai each of them capable of providing some contribution to a subject K involving some work, action or knowledge to be executed or already developed and authored by one of said agents in an environment or Arena;
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