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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2012
Scott H. Mathews, Seattle, WA (US);
Vinay T. Datar, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Christopher A. Forgie, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Scott H. Mathews, Seattle, WA (US);
Vinay T. Datar, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Christopher A. Forgie, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for modeling future benefits. According to the method, modeling future benefits begins by defining a growth rate for the good for each time segment of a period of time, where the period of time includes a plurality of time segments. An uncertainty for the good is then determined for each time segment. Next, a benefit distribution is determined for each time segment based upon the growth rate and uncertainty for the respective time segment. Finally, a benefit value is selected for each time segment by randomly selecting each benefit value based upon a respective benefit distribution to thereby model future benefits over the period of time.