Towards Context Aware Food Sales Prediction

Sales prediction is a complex task because of large number of factors affecting the demand. We present a context aware sales prediction approach, which selects the base predictor depending on the structural properties of the historical sales. A case study of a food wholesaler indicates that moving average prediction can be outperformed by intelligent methods, if a proper categorization is in place.1

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICDM
• Authors: Indre Zliobaite, Jorn Bakker, Mykola Pechenizkiy
• Keywords: Average Prediction, Aware Sales Prediction, Data Mining, ICDM 2009, Sales Prediction