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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Richard J Pryor, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Nipa Basu, Albany, NY (US);
Richard J Pryor, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Nipa Basu, Albany, NY (US);
Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
An economy whose activity is to be predicted comprises a plurality of decision makers. Decision makers include, for example, households, government, industry, and banks. The decision makers are represented by agents, where an agent can represent one or more decision makers. Each agent has decision rules that determine the agent's actions. Each agent can affect the economy by affecting variable conditions characteristic of the economy or the internal state of other agents. Agents can communicate actions through messages. On a multiprocessor computer, the agents can be assigned to processing elements.