公开(公告)号：US20170358001A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15179271

申请日：2016-06-10

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Adam Elmachtoub ,  Roger D. Lederman

IPC分类号： G06Q30/02

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0247 ,  G06Q30/0264

摘要： Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling the timing of customer interactions (e.g., targeted product or service offerings to customers) in order to determine optimally efficient usage of a seller's available inventory are disclosed. A customer selection problem (CSP) may be formulated and solved to implement a customer selection policy for controlling the timing with which customers from a customer pool will be targeted with offerings. The customer selection policy may include dynamic optimization to account for intertemporal effects of customer decisions.