Demand Prediction for Time-Expiring Inventory

A computer-executed method comprising:

• receiving, at an online computing system, a first feature vector and a second feature vector for a subject listing, the subject listing comprising a time-expiring inventory available to be booked by one of a plurality of clients of the online computing system and managed by a manager, the first feature vector and the second feature vector each comprising a plurality of features of the listing including a price feature indicating a current price of the time-expiring inventory;
• inputting the first feature vector into a demand function to generate a demand estimate that is a numerical representation of a likelihood that the time-expiring inventory will receive a transaction request from one of the clients before the time-expiring inventory expires;
• inputting the second feature vector into a manager option function to generate an acceptance estimate that is a numerical representation of a likelihood that the manager of the time-expiring inventory is willing to offer the time expiring inventory to clients at the current price;
• and
• storing the demand estimate and the acceptance estimate.