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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2006
Terry Chacon, San Diego, CA (US);
Allan R Topp, Arlington, VA (US);
Terry Chacon, San Diego, CA (US);
Allan R Topp, Arlington, VA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for determining the best combination of components/supplies/goods matched to a price provided by a supplier of those components/supplies/goods, such that costs are minimizing subject to a given supply function, fixed costs and various considerations that can be factored into a selection criteria. More specifically, a Lagrangian function is minimized subject to the supply function and an ensemble of costing formulations are considered subject to weighting factors as applied to a variety of criteria to arrive at an optimized selection of components/supplies/goods.