Journal
NEUROCOMPUTING
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages 75-92Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.12.045
Keywords
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms; Feature selection; Random forest; Regression model; Online sales forecasting
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- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Spain) [TIN2013-45491-R, TIN2015-66972-05-3-R]
- ERDF program of the European Union [TIN2014-53522-REDT]
- Italian INdAM GNCS
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Sales forecasting uses historical sales figures, in association with products characteristics and peculiarities, to predict short-term or long-term future performance in a business, and it can be used to derive sound financial and business plans. By using publicly available data, we build an accurate regression model for online sales forecasting obtained via a novel feature selection methodology composed by the application of the multi objective evolutionary algorithm ENORA (Evolutionary NOn-dominated Radial slots based Algorithm) as search strategy in a wrapper method driven by the well-known regression model learner Random Forest. Our proposal integrates feature selection for regression, model evaluation, and decision making, in order to choose the most satisfactory model according to an a posteriori process in a multi-objective context. We test and compare the performances of ENORA as multi-objective evolutionary search strategy against a standard multi objective evolutionary search strategy such as NSGA-11 (Non-dominated Sorted Genetic Algorithm), against a classical backward search strategy such as RFE (Recursive Feature Elimination), and against the original data set.
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