Artificial hydrocarbon networks for online sales prediction

Hiram Ponce, Luis Miralles-Pechúan, María De Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor

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Abstract

Online retail sales have been growing worldwide in the last decade. In order to cope with this high dynamicity and market share competition, online retail sales prediction and online advertising have become very important to answer questions of pricing decisions, advertising responsiveness, and product demand. To make adequate investment in products and channels it is necessary to have a model that relates certain features of the product with the number of sales that will occur in the future. In this paper we describe a comparative analysis of machine learning techniques against a novel supervised learning technique called artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHN). This method is a new type of machine learning that have proved to adapt very well to a wide spectrum of problems of regression and classification. Thus, we use artificial hydrocarbon networks for predicting the number of online sales, and then we compare their performance with other ten well-known methods of machine learning regression, obtaining promising results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications - 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, Proceedings
EditorsOscar Herrera Alcántara, Obdulia Pichardo Lagunas, Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages498-508
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319271002
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015 - Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Duration: 25 Oct 201531 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9414
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCuernavaca, Morelos
Period25/10/1531/10/15

Keywords

  • Artificial hydrocarbon networks
  • Artificial organic networks
  • Prediction of online sales
  • Sales forecasting
  • Supervised regression

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