The present invention relates to a method for finding the best match
between buyers (or buyers consortiums) and sellers (or sellers
consortiums), by a set of software intermediaries, and for using the
information developed in those matches to define monetary and performance
commitments between parties, and to create fair distribution of the
benefits of the agreement among the respective participants. The system
solves three related optimization problems concurrently: the optimal
aggregation of individual buyers into buyers consortiums; the optimal
aggregation of individual sellers into sellers consortiums, and the
optimal match of requirements, posed by the buyers consortium, to offers,
posed by the sellers consortium.