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One of the factors affecting the success or otherwise of the procurement process is the quality of its financial management. In many cases, particularly in the early stages of a project, this is dependent on the accuracy of forecasts of future costs. For risk management purposes, what is most...
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Forecasting category or industry sales is a vital component of a company’s planning and control activities. Sales for … varying model significantly outperformed previous models both in terms of fitting and forecasting the sales data. …
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Numerous econometric models have been proposed for forecasting property market performance, but limited success has …
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In many product categories of durable goods such as TV, PC, and DVD player, the largest component of sales is generated by consumers replacing existing units. Aggregate sales models proposed by diffusion of innovation researchers for the replacement component of sales have incorporated several...
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in stock forecasting. Neural networks are viewed as one of the more suitable techniques. In this study, an experiment on … the forecasting of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) was conducted by using feedforward backpropagation neural networks … neural network models in the forecasting of SET. Several global and local factors influencing the Thai stock market were used …
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was therefore set up as a simultaneous estimation and forecasting effort which permitted to integrate various, usually …
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There is a strong competition from low-priced imported catfish fillets resulting in a declining market share for domestic farm-raised catfish fillets. To match the competition, catfish processors are embarking on pricing policy measures that are volume-oriented instead of profit- or...
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This research evaluated forecasting accuracy of hedonic price models based on a number of different submarket … forecasting housing prices with submarkets defined using expert knowledge and by school district and combining information … in an urban setting and surrounding areas in that forecasting models based on expert knowledge of market structure or …
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) power flows. The first method involving neural network load forecasting and simultaneous equations can only be applied to … Queensland electricity network with an error of approximately 5%. The second method of forecasting the cutset flows directly from … 10% MAE. Results indicate that the cutset flow forecasting tool is accurate, robust and adaptable to suit the …
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This paper examines the forecasting implications for Product-Service Systems (PSS) applications in manufacturing firms … in forecasting approaches between product firms and Product-Service Systems (PSS) in manufacturing firms. The forecasting … forecasting approaches identified raises forecasting challenges for each of the three generic revenue sources. These challenges …
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