Systems and methods for forward market purchase of attention resources
Systems and methods for forward market purchase of attention resources are disclosed. An example transaction-enabling system may include a fleet of machines and a controller. The controller may include an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit to aggregate data for a plurality of attention-related resources, wherein each one of the plurality of attention-related resources are related to a task of the fleet of machines, an expert system circuit to configure a purchase of at least one of the plurality of attention-related resources on an attention market, and an attention acquisition circuit to automatically solicit the configured purchase of the at least one of the plurality of attention-related resources in a forward market for the at least one of the plurality of attention-related resources.
1. A transaction-enabling system, comprising:
a fleet of machines; and
a controller associated with the fleet of machines, comprising:
an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit structured to aggregate data for one or more attention-related resources that are related to a task of the fleet of machines;
an expert system circuit structured to generate a predicted forward market price for the one or more attention-related resources on an attention market, the generating comprising:
maintaining a training data set for training an artificial intelligence model, the training data set comprising feedback data indicating outcomes of previous transactions on the attention market and physical facility parameters of the fleet of machines;
training the artificial intelligence model with the training data set including the feedback data indicating the outcomes of the previous transactions on the attention market and the physical facility parameters of the fleet of machines; and
generating, using the artificial intelligence model, the predicted forward market price of the one or more attention-related resources using inputs to the artificial intelligence model that are based on the aggregated data; and
a purchase and sale circuit structured to;
automatically purchase, by the controller associated with the fleet of machines, a specific attention-related resource in the forward market at a first time based on the predicted forward market price having a first value at a first time; and
automatically sell, by the controller associated with the fleet of machines, the specific attention-related resource in the forward market at a second time that is different from the first time based on the predicted forward market price having a second value at the second time, wherein the first value and the second value are different,
wherein the feedback data of the training data set is updated based on an outcome of the automatic purchasing or automatic soliciting of the sale in the forward market.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the expert system circuit is further configured to identify an optimal timing for the sale; and the timing is based at least in part on the aggregated data.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the purchase and sale circuit is further structured to automatically solicit the sale in response to the identified timing.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more attention-related resources comprise at least one of: an advertising placement, a search listing, a keyword listing, a banner advertisement, a video advertisement, an embedded video advertisement, a participation in a panel, a participation in a survey activity, a participation in a trial, or a participation in a pilot activity.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein of the one or more attention-related resources is an external data source comprising at least one of: a market condition data source, a behavioral data source, an agent data source, or an historical outcome data source.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the expert system circuit is further structured to determine an attention-related resource acquisition value, and
wherein the purchase and sale circuit is further structured to automatically sell the one or more attention-related resources in response to the attention-related resource acquisition value.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the determination of the attention-related resource acquisition value is based at least in part on at least one of: an expected cost range, a cost parameter of an attention-related resource, an effectiveness parameter of an attention-related resource, or a future predicted cost of an attention-related resource.
8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the expert system circuit is further structured to determine the attention-related resource acquisition value in response to a comparison of a first cost of the one or more attention-related resources on a spot market of the one or more attention-related resources with a cost parameter of the one or more attention-related resources.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the expert system circuit is further structured to improve a future sale configuration or timing identification based on the training data set further comprising outcomes resulting from transactions made under historical input conditions.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the aggregated data is obtained from a data source comprising at least one of a bot, a crawler, or a dialog manager.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the purchase and sale circuit is further structured to solicit the purchasing of the one or more attention-related resources in the forward market for the one or more attention-related resources.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feedback data additionally indicates at least one of: optimization of business objectives of the fleet of machines, satisfaction of users of the fleet of machines, or satisfaction of operators of the fleet of machines.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the feedback data indicates at least one of:
the satisfaction of users of the fleet of machines, or the satisfaction of operators of the fleet of machines.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the task is a compute task or a network task.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller associated with the fleet of machines is operated by an owner of the fleet of machines.
16. A method performed by a computing device associated with a fleet of machines, the method comprising:
aggregating data related to one or more attention-related resources, the one or more attention-related resources being related to a task of the fleet of machines;
generating a predicted forward market price for the one or more attention-related resources, the generating comprising:
maintaining a training data set for training an artificial intelligence model, the training data set comprising feedback data indicating outcomes of previous transactions of the one or more attention-related resources and physical facility parameters of the fleet of machines;
training the artificial intelligence model with the training data set including the feedback data indicating the outcomes of the previous transactions of the one or more attention-related resources and the physical facility parameters of the fleet of machines; and
generating, using the trained artificial intelligence model, the predicted forward market price of the one or more attention-related resources, using inputs that are based on the aggregated data; and
based on the predicted forward market price of the one or more attention-related resources, determining whether to purchase or to sell the one or more attention-related resources; and
responsive to the determination, purchasing or selling, by the computing device associated with the fleet of machines, the one or more attention-related resources on a forward market for the one or more attention-related resources,
wherein the feedback data of the training data set is updated based on an outcome of the selling in the forward market.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising identifying a timing of the selling.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the selling comprises soliciting the selling in response to the identified timing.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the identifying the timing of the selling of the one or more attention-related resources comprises determining a supply of and a demand for the one or more attention-related resources, based at least in part on the aggregated data.
20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
determining an attention-related resource acquisition value; and
selling the one or more attention-related resources in response to the attention-related resource acquisition value.
21. The method of claim 20 , wherein the determining the attention-related resource acquisition value comprises comparing a first cost of the one or more attention-related resources on a spot market for the one or more attention-related resources with a cost parameter for the one or more attention-related resources.
22. The method of claim 20 , further comprising performing an attention-related resource transaction in response to the attention-related resource acquisition value.
23. The method of claim 22 , wherein the performing the attention-related resource transaction comprises an operation comprising at least one of: purchasing the one or more attention-related resources from an attention market, selling the one or more attention-related resources to an attention market, making an offer to sell the one or more attention-related resources to a second intelligent agent, or making an offer to a second intelligent agent to purchase the one or more attention-related resources.
24. The method of claim 20 , wherein determining the attention-related resource acquisition value is based in part on at least one of: an expected cost range, a cost parameter of an attention-related resource, an effectiveness parameter of an attention-related resource, or a future predicted cost of an attention related resource.
25. The method of claim 16 , wherein the training data set further comprises outcomes resulting from transactions made under historical input conditions.