Patent ID: 8498957
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining, via at least one computing device, an optimal schedule for evaluating a multi-factor test, wherein the multi-factor test comprises two or more factors to be tested, with two or more respective costs associated with evaluating the two or more factors and with two or more respective probabilities associated with a given evaluation result for the two or more factors and the optimal schedule minimizing an expectation of an overall cost to evaluate the multi-factor test; wherein the determination of the optimal schedule comprises sorting the factors whereby a first factor is determined to precede a second factor in an ordering of factors when a relation exists whereby a sum of the cost associated with the first factor and a product of the cost of a second factor and the probability associated with the first factor is less than a sum of the cost associated with the second factor and a product of the cost of the first factor and the probability associated with the second factor.