Patent 8180623 was granted and assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on May, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In general terms, the invention can be described as a computer system for enhancing the performance of underlying policies and execution-rules of real-world activities. The computer system includes a demand input section for providing demand information to drive the system. A real-time software application has a series of discrete steps for implementing the underlying policies and execution-rules of the activities and converts the demand information into instructions. A simulation-time operations-simulation model implements the underlying policies and execution-rules of the activities and receives the instructions. A control section includes a synchronization clock which synchronizes the discrete steps of the software application with the operations-simulation model by delaying the execution of some of the discrete steps and which communicates the instructions from the software application to the operations-simulation model. An output section outputs data to enhance the performance of the underlying policies and the execution-rules of the activities.