Methods and apparatus for simulating risk tolerance and associated adversary costs in a distributed business process

摘要

Methods and apparatus for simulating risk tolerance and associated adversary costs in a distributed business process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus simulate an interdependent business process, such as a financial transaction system, in a secure distributed manner. Each business entity that is part of the interdependent business process models itself on a local client device at any chosen level of detail. A simulation server connects the separate client based simulations into one large simulation. Details of each local simulation may be hidden from other simulation participants. However, interruptions in business flow caused by simulated disruptions introduced at the simulation server and/or a client device are propagated to all of the effected simulation participants via the simulation server. In addition, the simulation server receives inputs from users indicative of risk tolerance levels and associated response actions. If the operational costs imposed by a selected response action are greater than a deterrence threshold associated with a particular adversary, the adversary is not deterred from causing a certain disruption to the simulated competitive market environment. If the operational costs imposed by a selected response action are greater than the deterrence threshold the adversary is deterred.

主权项

1. An apparatus to execute a distributed business process simulation of a competitive market environment, the apparatus comprising:
a simulation server; a plurality of client devices communicatively coupled to the simulation server, each client device in the plurality of client devices providing different inputs and different outputs associated with different portions of the business process simulation of the competitive market environment, wherein at least one input from a first client device in the plurality of client devices has an indirect influence on at least one output of a second different client device in the plurality of client devices; and a software program executing on the simulation server, the software program causing the simulation server to:
receive a user input from the first client device indicative of a risk tolerance level;transmit a set of available response actions based on the selected risk tolerance level;receive a selected response action from the first client device, the selected response action being selected from the set of available response actions;determine an operational cost imposed on an adversary based on the selected response action, the operational cost having an effect of one of (a) deterring the adversary from causing a disruption to a simulated competitive market environment, and (b) not deterring the adversary from causing the disruption to the simulated competitive market environment.