Patent ID: 6985867
Filing Date: 2006-01-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of predicting a change in an economy, practiced on a computer, where the economy comprises a plurality of decision makers and economic variables having initial values, said method comprising the steps of: a) representing the decision makers by a plurality of agents, where each agent comprises internal state and decision rules defining the agent's actions responsive to input messages and the internal state; b) initializing the internal state of each agent; c) processing each agent, where processing an agent comprises the steps of: d) routing output messages from each agent to indicated destination agents; e) determining new values for the economic variables from the agents' internal states and the output messages; f) repeating steps c, d, and e until a terminal condition is reached; and g) outputting a representation of the change in the economy based on the initial values of the economic variables and the new values of the economic variables.