I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Blue Yonder Group, Inc.

Jda Software Group, Inc.

Jian Yang

Mark R Miller

Vijay Krishnan Ganesan

Gayle Lynne Hayes

Rajen Subba

Antoine Roland Raux

Gayle Lynee Hayes

Vijay Krishnam Ganesan

Generating an optimized supplier allocation plan includes identifying parts and suppliers associated with an allocation problem, where each supplier can supply at least one part. One or more objective functions are selected. Each objective function has part variables, and each part variable represents a quantity of a part to be procured from a supplier. At least one constraint constraining at least one part variable is received. The one or more objective functions are optimized with respect to the at least one constraint to yield a value for each part variable. A quantity of each part to be procured from at least one supplier is determined according to the values to generate the optimized supplier allocation plan.

Generating an optimized supplier allocation plan

A method of providing notifications to users of a social networking service includes determining a user intent associated with a post from a user on the social networking service, based at least in part on content of the post. The method further includes generating a first notification of the user intent associated with the post and selecting a plurality of users of the social networking service to receive the first notification. The method further includes providing the first notification to the plurality of users, and after providing the first notification to the plurality of users: (1) receiving one or more responses to the first notification from one or more users of the plurality of users, the one or more responses including information responsive to the first notification, and (2) providing the information responsive to the first notification to the user.

Methods and systems for providing notifications to users of a social networking service

Generalizing an optimized supplier allocation plan

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