Patent ID: 8352299

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating information regarding listings for a plurality of items offered for consumption, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, obtaining behavioral information associated with the items, the behavioral information indicating one or more measurements of one or more user actions taken in connection with presentations of listings for the items, each listing comprising a collection of information for a corresponding item; obtaining listing information for the listings of the items, the listing information including state information corresponding to each of one or more attributes of each listing, at least some of the state information indicating whether the corresponding one or more attributes is in a defective state or a non-defective state; generating, based at least in part on the obtained behavioral information and the obtained listing information, one or more models of one or more performance measures of one or more aspects of offering the items for consumption, the one or more models each based at least in part on at least the state information of at least a subset of the one or more attributes of each listing, each model corresponding to a listing; determining an impact prediction for each of the listings having at least one defective attribute, the impact prediction based at least in part on the corresponding generated one or more models, the impact prediction indicating at least in part an effect of changing the at least one defective attribute to the non-defective state; and providing the impact prediction for each of the listings having at least one defective attribute.