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AssigneeAffinnova, Inc.
InventorsNoubar Afeyan, Kamal Malek, Nigel Bufton, Sevan Ficici, Howard Austin, Larry Austin, Honor McClellan
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The invention involves generating and presenting, typically electronically, a number of design alternatives to persons who are participating in the design, selection, or market research exercise. The participants (referred to as “selectors”) transmit data indicative of their preferences among or between the presented design alternatives, and that data is used to derive a new generation of design alternatives or proposals. The new designs are generated through the use of a computer program exploiting a genetic or evolutionary computational technique. The process is repeated, typically for many iterations or cycles.
A method of selecting a preferred one or a preferred group of decision objects having a plurality of combinations of attributes from a larger population of possible decision objects, the method comprising the steps of:
An electronic network comprising a plurality of computers for design of one or a group of decision object comprising a plurality of attributes, the network being configured to:
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