Keyword: forecasting: applications

Found 1283 papers in total
Forecasting the short-term demand for electricity – do neural networks stand a better chance?
2000,
We address a problem faced by every supplier of electricity, i.e. forecasting the...
Interest rate spreads as predictors of German inflation and business cycles
2000,
We have studied the comparative performance of a number of interest rate spreads as...
Optimal allocation of profit across companies operating with a joint salesforce
2000,
We investigate the problem of companies that want to cooperate either by combining...
Optimal conditions for sales force equitable compensation
2000,
Past theoretical sales force compensation research has typically applied paradigms...
Determinants of regular, promotional and cross price elasticities
2000,
The effects of market characteristics on price elasticities are investigated. Market...
Examining the interaction of marketing and financing decisions in a dynamic environment
2000,
The market success of a new product critically depends on the marketing strategy that...
The future mobility of the world population
2000,
On average a person spends 1.1 h per day traveling and devotes a predictable fraction...
Piecewise pseudo estimation for NHPP using data in the adjacent intervals
1999,
In modeling a system with NHPP, we generally need to estimate the parameters of its...
Improved fashion buying with Bayesian updates
1997,
We focus on the problem of buying fashion goods for the ‘big book’ of a...
Forecasting Internet telephony – using scenarios to quantify the effects of using the Internet as a voice phone
1998,
The Internet offers individuals and organisations almost unlimited access to...
The quantity flexibility contract and supplier–customer incentives
1999,
Consider a supply chain consisting of two independent agents, a supplier (e.g., a...
Predicting the success of nations at the Summer Olympics using neural networks
1999,
In this paper, we construct several models that try to predict a country's success at...
Evaluating predictive performance of judgemental extrapolations from simulated currency series
1999,
Judgemental forecasting of exchange rates is critical for financial decision-making....
Time series forecasting of quarterly railroad grain carloadings
1999,
The participants in the grain logistics system need forecasts of railroad grain...
Assessing the forecasters: An analysis of the forecasting records of the Treasury, the London Business School and the National Institute
1999,
This paper analyses the historical inflation and output growth forecasting records of...
Dynamic inventory targets revisited
1999,
This paper is about periodic review inventory systems which are controlled by...
Optimal ordering decisions with uncertain cost and demand forecast updating
1999,
We determine the optimal ordering policy for a retailer who has two instants to order...
Explaining beer demand: A residual modeling regression approach using statistical process control
1999,
We develop a medium-term model as well as a short-term model for understanding the...
Periodic review stochastic inventory problem with forecast updates: Worst-case bounds for the myopic solution
1998,
Muth first considered the linear cost periodic review inventory problem in which the...
Atmospheric clearness estimation of major cities in Korea using empirical forecasting models
1998,
Since the atmospheric clearness index is one of the main factors for evaluating...
Evaluation of stock option prices by using the prediction of fractal time series
1999,
This report deals with the prediction method for the time-series bearing fractal...
Technological forecasting – model selection, model stability, and combining models
1998,
The paper identifies 29 models that the literature suggests are appropriate for...
A forecasting method for manpower requirement and related optimal decisions
1999,
In accordance with China's transformation from a planned economy to a market economy,...
Forecasting presidential elections using history and polls
1999,
We develop a method for efficiently using current poll data to update election...
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