Patent Document ID: 8554604
Application ID: 09944969

Base Claim:
1. A method of determining an economic impact of business policies, comprising: a) providing player definitions defining a plurality of players and an associated set of rules defining a decision space, a decision-making process tree, an information set, an outcome function, and a payoff function for each player; b) translating, in a computer system, the player definitions into at least one codified script; and c) executing, in the computer system, the at least one codified script, wherein a result of the outcome and payoff functions at the end of execution of a script stage determines the economic impact of the business policies defined by the rules.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 further comprising: d) providing calibration data for the defined players based on empirical sales information, wherein the at least one script is generated in accordance with the player definitions and the calibration data.