Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

Final domestic demand is the sum of final consumption, investment and stock building expenditures by the private and general government sectors in real terms. Forecast is based on an assessment of the economic climate in individual countries and the world economy, using a combination of...

This paper develops a rigorous and advanced computational model to describe, analyze, and forecast global crude oil demand. The paper deploys a hybrid approach of artificial intelligence techniques: artificial neural network and genetic algorithms, to devise a methodological framework for...