Title :
Enhancing Sales Forecasting by Using Neuro Networks and the Popularity of Magazine Article Titles
Author :
Omar, Hassan ; Duen-Ren Liu
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
In this paper, we examine how the popularity information of magazines can be useful for sales forecasting. We propose a sales forecasting model based on Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) where the inputs are historical sales and the popularity indexes of magazine article titles. Our proposed model using the popularity of magazine article titles in the forecasting process can improve the accuracy of sales forecasting.
Keywords :
backpropagation; forecasting theory; neural nets; publishing; sales management; BPNN; back propagation neural network; historical sale; magazine article title popularity; neuro network; popularity index; popularity information; sales forecasting model; Forecasting; Indexes; Market research; Marketing and sales; Neural networks; Predictive models; Smoothing methods; Forecasting; Google Search engine; Neural-Network; Pupularity;
Conference_Titel :
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), 2012 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kitakushu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2138-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICGEC.2012.87