Patent ID: 6961678

Claim:
A computer implemented method for allocating value among players in a cooperative allocation game in order to resolve joint effects in an allocation problem, comprising: identifying a control game and its players; identifying an allocation game and its players; establishing: a control relationship between players or coalitions in the control game and players or coalitions in the allocation game; selecting a set of coalitions in the control game; determining a set of worths for the selected set coalitions in the control game; evaluating one or more control functions using the determined set of worths to determine a set of values for the one or more control functions in the control game; selecting a set of coalitions in the allocation game; determining a set of worths for the selected set of coalitions in the allocation game; and combining the determined set of values for the one or more control functions in the game with the determined set of worths for the selected set of coalitions in the allocation game to determine allocations to players in the allocation game.