Simulating selective participation of multiple events from a pool of qualified participants
US10878143B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 7, 2017 |
| Grant date | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 30, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q50/01
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for simulating participation patterns in a plurality of events from a pool of qualified participants includes selecting an event whose preference rank r is equal to a predetermined preference rank R(i,j) for an event of type j for individual i; sampling a random number Z that represents a number of events in which to participate when a number N(j) of available events of type j is greater than 0 and an expected participation rate P(i, j) of individual i for events of type j is greater than 0; selecting a random subset S with Z elements that indicates which Z events to participate in; and looping over k=1 to N(j) and setting a participation array M(i,j,k,l) to 1 iff k is contained in S, where participation array M(i,j,k,l) indicates whether or not individual i participates in a k-th event of type j in an l-th simulation.
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