Forecasting box office revenue of movies with BP neural network

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 2, 2009, Pages 6580-6587

  Zhang, Li ^a   Luo, Jianhua ^a   Yang, Suying ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Box office revenue; BP neural network; Dynamic threshold; Forecasting; MLP; Movies; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BOX OFFICE; BP NEURAL NETWORKS; DYNAMIC THRESHOLD; MOVIES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

MOTION PICTURES;

EID: 58349117868     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.064     Document Type: Article

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