A hybrid artificial intelligence sales-forecasting system in the convenience store industry

Human Factors and Ergonomics In Manufacturing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 188-196

  Lee, Wan I ^a   Shih, Bih Yaw ^b   Chen, Chen Yuan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Convenience stores; Intelligent robot; Radial basis function neural network; Sales forecasting; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS STRATEGY; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CONVENIENCE STORES; DATA SETS; FORECAST MODEL; FRESH FOOD; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS; MULTIPLE SERVICES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS; SALES FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ERGONOMICS; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SALES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84859017599     PISSN: 10908471     EISSN: 15206564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hfm.20272     Document Type: Article

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