A decision support system for detecting products missing from the shelf based on heuristic rules

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 685-694

  Papakiriakopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Pramatari, Katerina ^a   Doukidis, Georgios ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification problem; Heuristic rules; Out of shelf; Out of stock; Rule based decision support system; Shelf availability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SALES;

CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM; HEURISTIC RULES; OUT-OF-SHELF; OUT-OF-STOCK; RULE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; SHELF AVAILABILITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 58749098381     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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