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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2009
Scott H. Mathews, Seattle, WA (US);
Vinay T. Datar, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Kevin Feely, Kent, WA (US);
David J. Gauss, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Scott H. Mathews, Seattle, WA (US);
Vinay T. Datar, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Kevin Feely, Kent, WA (US);
David J. Gauss, Maple Valley, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A systems, methods and computer program products are provided for modeling a monetary measure of a good, such as a cost or revenue associated with the good. A method begins by selecting at least one qualitative measure of maturity for at least one technology associated with the good, where each qualitative measure of maturity is associated with a distribution such that each technology is correspondingly associated with a distribution. Next, a monetary point is associated with each technology, and thereafter a monetary distribution is determined for each technology based upon a respective monetary point and a respective distribution. A plurality of monetary values are selected by randomly selecting the plurality of monetary values for each technology based upon a respective monetary distribution. Finally, the monetary measure for the good are modeled based upon the selected monetary values for each technology.