A discrete choice model of consumer demand is employed to generate controls to limit or open up availability of inventory of a resource, for example, thereby improving the revenue of a firm offering the resource for sale. The consumer's choice process is modeled as a set of choice probabilities that...http://www.google.de/patents/US20020065699?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020065699 - General discrete choice model and optimization algorithm for revenue management