Dose-response signal estimation and optimization for salesforce management

Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 328-333

  Varshney, Kush R ^a   Singh, Moninder ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ANALYTICS; BUSINESS CONSTRAINTS; EXPECTED RETURN; EXPECTED VALUES; KERNEL REGRESSION; MAKING DECISION; OPTIMAL ASSIGNMENT; SIGNAL ESTIMATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886377274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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