Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with computing and generating schedule data structures for items in a display are described. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a sales data structure corresponding to a store and analyzing sales records for items associated with subcategories to calculate a subcategory profit contribution score for each subcategory. The method may also include selecting a first subcategory from the subcategories as a candidate subcategory of items and analyzing the sales records to calculate an item profit contribution score for each of the items assigned to the candidate subcategory. A first item is selected from the candidate subcategory to be placed on a promotional display space, based upon the item profit contribution score of the first item. A schedule data structure is generated that assigns the first item to the promotional display space.

A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.

Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.

Methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with a tokenized instruction set are disclosed. A method may include accessing a distributed ledger including an instruction set, tokenizing the instruction set, interpreting an instruction set access request, and in response to the instruction set access request, providing a provable access to the instruction set.

An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property. The profit can be calculated by deducting, from the revenues that are expected to be generated from an ad delivered based on the collected profile, at least the price of ad space at a media property where the BT company might like to deliver ads to the profiled visitor. When the calculated profit is positive (i.e., not a loss), the BT company arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property through which the BT company expects to profit.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price for placing the advertisement.

Systems and methods for machine forward energy transactions optimization are disclosed. A transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy, and a controller. The controller may include an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit to configure a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement and a machine resource acquisition circuit to automatically solicit the configured transaction on the forward market for energy. The AI circuit may also iteratively improve the configured transaction to improve a task outcome of the fleet of machines.

A computer system and computer-implemented method for retail merchandise planning, including promotional product selection, price optimization and planning. According to an embodiment, the computer system for generating an electronic retail plan for a retailer comprises, a data staging module configured to input retail sensory data from one or more computer systems associated with the retailer; a data processing module configured to pre-process the inputted retail sensory data; a data warehouse module configured to store the inputted retail sensory data and the pre-processed retail sensory data; a state model module configured to generate a retailer state model for modeling operation of the retailer based on the retail sensory data; a calibration module configured to calibrate the state model module according to one or more control parameters; and an output module for generating an electronic retail plan for the retailer based on the retailer state model.

Systems and methods for fleet forward energy and energy credits purchase are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task; a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy; and a machine resource acquisition circuit to execute a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement.

Systems and methods for machine forward energy and energy storage transactions are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a resource requirement circuit to aggregate a resource requirement for a fleet of machines to perform a task, wherein the resource requirement comprises an energy storage capacity requirement, a forward resource market circuit to access a forward market for energy, and a machine resource acquisition circuit to execute a transaction on the forward market for energy in response to the aggregated resource requirement.