Abstract: Resources are allocated in response to requests submitted for a set of entities. Each request has an associated value and resources required to satisfy the request. For each entity, local priority values are provided for prioritizing among the requests received for the entity. The priority values for every entity conforms to the same normalization rule. With respect to each entity, the system selects a set of best requests in accordance with the corresponding set of local priority values, the values associated with the requests, and the resources required to satisfy each request. A scarcity factor is determined for each resource. A score is determined for each selected best request in accordance with the value associated with each request, the resources required to satisfy the request, the scarcity factors for the resources, and a set of global priority values. The system selects a request having a best score.

Abstract: A multiple player game has objects corresponding to projects to which resources are allocated by the players of the game. The players include a plurality of groups. A resource bank mechanism determines a bank of resources to be made available to each group of players for allocation to the projects controlled by the players the group. A first game mechanism allows each player to make independent resource allocations to a project controlled by that player. A second game mechanism requires each group of players to make joint resource allocation decisions. A third game mechanism requires a plurality of the groups to make team level decisions affecting resource allocations to projects controlled by the groups of players. A scoring mechanism assigns a respective project score to each project of each group, a group score to each group of projects, and a team score to the plurality of projects.