Intelligent system to support judgmental business forecasting: The case of estimating hotel room demand

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 380-397

  Ben Ghalia, Mounir ^a,b   Wang, Paul P ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

JUDGMENTAL BUSINESS FORECASTING; REVENUE MANAGEMENT;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0034245014     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.868945     Document Type: Article

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