International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business (IJIEEB)
IJIEEB Vol. 10, No. 6, 8 Nov. 2018
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Author(s)
D. Asir Antony Gnana Singh
1,*
E. Jebamalar Leavline
1
S. Muthukrishnan
2
R. Yuvaraj
2
Index Terms
Business Forecasting, Machine Learning, Gaussian Process, SMOreg, Multilayer Perceptron
Abstract
The business sectors directly contribute to the growth of any nation. Moreover, the business is an activity of producing, buying, and selling the goods and services to generate the money. The business directly involves in the gross domestic product (GDP). The business forecasting is the activity of predicting or estimating the feature position of the sales, expenditures, and profits of any business. However, the business forecasting helps to the business sectors for planning, decision making, resource utilization, business success, etc. Therefore, business forecasting is a pressing need for the growth of any business. In recent past, many researches attempt to carry out the business forecasting using different tools. However, this paper presents the business forecasting for sales data using machine learning technique and the obtained results are presented and discussed..
Cite This Paper
D. Asir Antony Gnana Singh, E. Jebamalar Leavline, S. Muthukrishnan, R. Yuvaraj, "Machine Learning based Business Forecasting", International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), Vol.10, No.6, pp. 40-51, 2018. DOI:10.5815/ijieeb.2018.06.05
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