This book includes selected papers submitted to the ICADABAI-2017 conference, offering an overview of the new methodologies and presenting innovative applications that are of interest to both academicians and practitioners working in the area of analytics. It discusses predictive analytics...

Demand forecasting methods usually adopt the approach of minimizing certain forms of error or maximizing a likelihood function. However, for an end user, such objective functions are often the means to achieve optimum results over various key performance indicators in respective domains. A...