Patent ID: 8140426

Claim:
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 a i 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 a i ; in said Arena; a wallet w i containing an amount of currency that belongs to a an agent a i 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 a i 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 a i being based on a PRoA said wallet w i so that maximum amount of the bid is limited for the amount in the wallet; for any of the agents a i entering into the Arena deduce the amount of the bid based on a PRoA from the corresponding initial wallet w i ; 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 a i having entered into the Arena with a bid; and adjusting in association with the computer the wallet w i of the agent a i in case the given contribution thereof has obtained a positive return value (RoA) over the PRoA used in the bid.