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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2007
Pu Huang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Alan J. King, South Salom, NY (US);
Dharmashankar Subramanian, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Pu Huang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Alan J. King, South Salom, NY (US);
Dharmashankar Subramanian, Tarrytown, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product stored on machine readable media including machine readable instructions for selecting a project portfolio from available projects, the instructions for implementing a method include inputting an investment cost and a return for each available project and user-specified constraints; creating a formulation, the formulation comprising the investment cost and the return for each available project, the constraints and variables, the variables comprising for each available project a threshold probability of success and a selection decision; solving the formulation to select the project portfolio and to determine the threshold probability of success for each available project; and outputting the project portfolio and the threshold probability of success for each available project.