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A Novel Forecasting Model Based on Support Vector Regression and Bat Meta-Heuristic (Bat–SVR): Case Study in Printed Circuit Board Industry

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  • Amirmohammad Tavakkoli

    (Department of Information Technology Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, University of Qom, Qom, Iran)

  • Jalal Rezaeenour

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, University of Qom, Qom, Iran)

  • Esmaeil Hadavandi

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, University of Qom, Qom, Iran)

Abstract

Sales forecasting is very beneficial to most businesses. A successful business needs accurate sales forecasting to understand the market and sales trends. This paper presents a novel sales forecasting model by integrating support vector regression (SVR) and bat algorithm (BA). Since the accuracy of SVR forecasting mainly depends on SVR parameters, we use BA for tuning these parameters because Bat is a newly introduced algorithm and has many parameters. In order to find the best set of BA parameters Taguchi method was utilized. We validated our model on four known UCI datasets. Then we applied our model in printed circuit board (PCB) sales forecasting case study. We compared the accuracy of the proposed model with Genetic algorithm (GA)–SVR, particle swarm optimization (PSO)–SVR, and classic-SVR. The experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms the others. To ensure the robustness of our proposed model, sensitivity analysis was also done using our model to find out the effects of dependent variables values on sales time series.

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  • Amirmohammad Tavakkoli & Jalal Rezaeenour & Esmaeil Hadavandi, 2015. "A Novel Forecasting Model Based on Support Vector Regression and Bat Meta-Heuristic (Bat–SVR): Case Study in Printed Circuit Board Industry," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(01), pages 195-215.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:14:y:2015:i:01:n:s0219622014500849
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219622014500849
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    1. Mohammadreza Ghanbari & Mahdi Goldani, 2021. "Support Vector Regression Parameters Optimization using Golden Sine Algorithm and its application in stock market," Papers 2103.11459, arXiv.org.
    2. Min-Yuan Cheng & Nhat-Duc Hoang, 2016. "A Self-Adaptive Fuzzy Inference Model Based on Least Squares SVM for Estimating Compressive Strength of Rubberized Concrete," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(03), pages 603-619, May.

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