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Data does not always trump intuition - Evaluating performance of statistical forecasting methods in ecommerce
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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As a global end-to-end eCommerce solutions provider, PFSweb deals everyday with thousands of shipping orders to all over Europe. Warehouse management is indeed an essential function of the organization. eCommerce is moreover a new market that is entering everyone’s day-to-day life. Logistics organizations therefore have to serve more and more customers, which leads to distribution issues like out-of-stock items, manpower shortage, and financial impacts, due to a lack of a demand forecast.&#13;In this thesis, we evaluate the performance of several state-of-the-art quantitative methods in demand forecasting, in opposition to methods based on judgment, in order to optimize and formalize forecasting in eCommerce. A systematic framework is therefore considered, which could:&#13;• Document the forecasting process for sharing purposes among PFSweb’s agents. &#13;• Allow the use of several statistical methods.&#13;• Facilitate traceability.&#13;The development of this structure is based on pertinent scientific readings and a rigorous methodology. The scientific literature brought the necessary knowledge and understanding of the extent of the issue: the importance of forecasting in Business, the challenges in eCommerce forecasting, and the state-of-the-art quantitative time-series methods. On the other hand, the methodology gives an overview of PFSweb’s forecasting approach, before the application of a series of steps that compose the proposed framework.&#13;Based on our findings, we show that while these methods work reasonably well, their use in real-life situations characterized by a fluctuating and double-seasonal demand, do not allow for optimal predictions. The performance of these methods particularly deteriorates in the absence of human domain-knowledge, intuition and experience. We thus recommend that these methods should not be applied on their own; rather, they should be used to complement the skills and expertise of human business analyst.


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Comparaison des prévisions obtenues par les méthodes de lissage avec les prévisions obtenues par d'autres méthodes de prévision.
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Effects and Implications of COVID-19 for the Human Senses, Consumer Preferences, Appetite and Eating Behaviour
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI Books

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As Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolved into a global pandemic, assessments of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients have presented health conditions including, in many cases, a mild to severe loss of smell and tasting abilities among patients. Initial work has shown short and likely longer term negative effects on the human senses, with some indications of effects on consumer preferences; however, as of yet, very little is known about the impacts on eating behaviours and consequent longer term effects on appetite. The aim of this Special Issue anthology was, for the first time, to bring together researchers with key insights into how COVID-19 has impacted appetite and eating behaviours from the fundamental to the applicable, as assessed by human sensory perception. Thus, research is included that explores various themes, from the basic effects on the senses, to changes in consumer preferences, all the way to how and why COVID-19 has changed consumer behaviours in relation to food and eating in the longer term. Overall, we wished to document and bring together key research in the sensory and consumer space with respect to COVID-19, with the overall aim to highlight and ensure this research has a lasting impact regarding future understandings of measures developed to help and treat people affected during the ongoing pandemic.


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Effects and Implications of COVID-19 for the Human Senses, Consumer Preferences, Appetite and Eating Behaviour
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI Books

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As Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolved into a global pandemic, assessments of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients have presented health conditions including, in many cases, a mild to severe loss of smell and tasting abilities among patients. Initial work has shown short and likely longer term negative effects on the human senses, with some indications of effects on consumer preferences; however, as of yet, very little is known about the impacts on eating behaviours and consequent longer term effects on appetite. The aim of this Special Issue anthology was, for the first time, to bring together researchers with key insights into how COVID-19 has impacted appetite and eating behaviours from the fundamental to the applicable, as assessed by human sensory perception. Thus, research is included that explores various themes, from the basic effects on the senses, to changes in consumer preferences, all the way to how and why COVID-19 has changed consumer behaviours in relation to food and eating in the longer term. Overall, we wished to document and bring together key research in the sensory and consumer space with respect to COVID-19, with the overall aim to highlight and ensure this research has a lasting impact regarding future understandings of measures developed to help and treat people affected during the ongoing pandemic.


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Advanced Methods of Power Load Forecasting
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This reprint introduces advanced prediction models focused on power load forecasting. Models based on artificial intelligence and more traditional approaches are shown, demonstrating the real possibilities of use to improve prediction in this field. Models of LSTM neural networks, LSTM networks with a SESDA architecture, in even LSTM-CNN are used. On the other hand, multiple seasonal Holt-Winters models with discrete seasonality and the application of the Prophet method to demand forecasting are presented. These models are applied in different circumstances and show highly positive results. This reprint is intended for both researchers related to energy management and those related to forecasting, especially power load.


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Advanced Methods of Power Load Forecasting
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This reprint introduces advanced prediction models focused on power load forecasting. Models based on artificial intelligence and more traditional approaches are shown, demonstrating the real possibilities of use to improve prediction in this field. Models of LSTM neural networks, LSTM networks with a SESDA architecture, in even LSTM-CNN are used. On the other hand, multiple seasonal Holt-Winters models with discrete seasonality and the application of the Prophet method to demand forecasting are presented. These models are applied in different circumstances and show highly positive results. This reprint is intended for both researchers related to energy management and those related to forecasting, especially power load.


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Advanced Methods of Power Load Forecasting
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This reprint introduces advanced prediction models focused on power load forecasting. Models based on artificial intelligence and more traditional approaches are shown, demonstrating the real possibilities of use to improve prediction in this field. Models of LSTM neural networks, LSTM networks with a SESDA architecture, in even LSTM-CNN are used. On the other hand, multiple seasonal Holt-Winters models with discrete seasonality and the application of the Prophet method to demand forecasting are presented. These models are applied in different circumstances and show highly positive results. This reprint is intended for both researchers related to energy management and those related to forecasting, especially power load.


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As Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolved into a global pandemic, assessments of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) patients have presented health conditions including, in many cases, a mild to severe loss of smell and tasting abilities among patients. Initial work has shown short and likely longer term negative effects on the human senses, with some indications of effects on consumer preferences; however, as of yet, very little is known about the impacts on eating behaviours and consequent longer term effects on appetite. The aim of this Special Issue anthology was, for the first time, to bring together researchers with key insights into how COVID-19 has impacted appetite and eating behaviours from the fundamental to the applicable, as assessed by human sensory perception. Thus, research is included that explores various themes, from the basic effects on the senses, to changes in consumer preferences, all the way to how and why COVID-19 has changed consumer behaviours in relation to food and eating in the longer term. Overall, we wished to document and bring together key research in the sensory and consumer space with respect to COVID-19, with the overall aim to highlight and ensure this research has a lasting impact regarding future understandings of measures developed to help and treat people affected during the ongoing pandemic.

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Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- lockdown --- COVID-19 --- coronavirus --- food choice --- food purchase --- food waste --- impulse buying --- food consumption --- mental health --- emotional eating --- sensory function --- chemosensory dysfunction --- perception --- appetite --- well-being --- pleasure --- recovery --- interview --- sensory perception --- eating behaviour --- self-reports --- food prices --- Eurozone --- Holt-Winters model --- green food --- purchase intention --- TPB --- E-TPB --- Chinese consumer --- consumer preference --- COVID-19 lockdown --- food preferences --- risk preference --- risk perceptions --- food purchasing behavior --- food consumption behavior --- sustainable behavior --- dietary behavior --- beverage consumption --- coffee --- tea --- online food delivery service --- COVID-19 pandemic --- technology acceptance --- trust --- enjoyment --- social influence --- young population --- food perception --- risk perception --- food safety --- Belgium --- consumer behaviour --- food service sector --- safety measures --- transparency --- olfactory distortions --- parosmia --- trigger foods --- disgust --- valence --- lockdown --- COVID-19 --- coronavirus --- food choice --- food purchase --- food waste --- impulse buying --- food consumption --- mental health --- emotional eating --- sensory function --- chemosensory dysfunction --- perception --- appetite --- well-being --- pleasure --- recovery --- interview --- sensory perception --- eating behaviour --- self-reports --- food prices --- Eurozone --- Holt-Winters model --- green food --- purchase intention --- TPB --- E-TPB --- Chinese consumer --- consumer preference --- COVID-19 lockdown --- food preferences --- risk preference --- risk perceptions --- food purchasing behavior --- food consumption behavior --- sustainable behavior --- dietary behavior --- beverage consumption --- coffee --- tea --- online food delivery service --- COVID-19 pandemic --- technology acceptance --- trust --- enjoyment --- social influence --- young population --- food perception --- risk perception --- food safety --- Belgium --- consumer behaviour --- food service sector --- safety measures --- transparency --- olfactory distortions --- parosmia --- trigger foods --- disgust --- valence


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Time Series Modelling
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The analysis and modeling of time series is of the utmost importance in various fields of application. This Special Issue is a collection of articles on a wide range of topics, covering stochastic models for time series as well as methods for their analysis, univariate and multivariate time series, real-valued and discrete-valued time series, applications of time series methods to forecasting and statistical process control, and software implementations of methods and models for time series. The proposed approaches and concepts are thoroughly discussed and illustrated with several real-world data examples.


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Time Series Modelling
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The analysis and modeling of time series is of the utmost importance in various fields of application. This Special Issue is a collection of articles on a wide range of topics, covering stochastic models for time series as well as methods for their analysis, univariate and multivariate time series, real-valued and discrete-valued time series, applications of time series methods to forecasting and statistical process control, and software implementations of methods and models for time series. The proposed approaches and concepts are thoroughly discussed and illustrated with several real-world data examples.

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