Patent ID: 8069079

Claim:
A system for electronically scoring a pair of entities as candidates for co-location, the pair comprising a first entity and a second entity, the system comprising: an input device configured to receive data related to the operations of a the first and second entities; a processor device configured to calculate a co-location score for the pair of entities, the value depending on the operations data for each entity in the pair; and an output device configured to output a co-location score for the co-location of the first and second entities, the co-location score defined by the equation Q=compliance*[(w)correlation+(1+w)compatibility]; wherein: Q is the co-location score; w is a weighting factor; compliance is a numerical value that is selected to correspond to regulations which govern co-location; correlation quantifies growth rates of the first and second entities; and compatibility quantifies a probability that critical top qualities of the first and second entities are compatible.