System and method for automatic parameter tuning of campaign planning with hierarchical linear programming objectives

US11315059B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Blue Yonder Group, Inc. · US

Inventor

• Devanand R · Kanchinakote, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 26, 2022
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for big bucket campaign planning that automatically learns weights for parameters of a weighted evaluation function. Embodiments include modeling the use of the one or more campaign operations and one or more campaignable resources as one or more campaign planning problems comprising a sequential decision problem with decision parameters, determining a campaign plan for the use of campaign operations and one or more campaignable resource, encoding a required policy of the sequential decision problem into a k-lookahead search strategy by defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from the campaign planning problem, learning weights associated with an evaluation function that determines an effective objective function for campaign planning as a linear programming problem, and computing the parameters of the evaluation function using an iterative cross-entropy campaign planning.