Experience from Hosting a Corporate Prediction Market: Benefits beyond the Forecasts

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn Part F128815, Issue , 2013, Pages 1384-1392

  Montgomery, Thomas A ^a   Stieg, Paul M ^a   Cavaretta, Michael J ^a   Moraal, Paul E ^b  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^b FORD WERKE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial markets; Forecasting; Organizational knowledge; Prediction markets; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DATA MINING; FINANCIAL MARKETS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL MARKETS; CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; FORD MOTOR COMPANIES; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MARKETS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85025671194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487575.2488212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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