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Tourism Time Series Forecast

Tourism Time Series Forecast
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Author(s): João Paulo Teixeira (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal)and Paula Odete Fernandes (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 16
Source title: Improving Organizational Effectiveness with Enterprise Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): João Eduardo Varajão (University of Minho, Portugal), Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal)and Ricardo Martinho (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal & CINTESIS - Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8368-6.ch005

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Abstract

In this chapter four combinations of input features and the feedforward, cascade forward and recurrent architectures are compared for the task of forecast tourism time series. The input features of the ANNs consist in the combination of the previous 12 months, the index time modeled by two nodes used to the year and month and one input with the daily hours of sunshine (insolation duration). The index time features associated to the previous twelve values of the time series proved its relevance in this forecast task. The insolation variable can improved results with some architectures, namely the cascade forward architecture. Finally, the experimented ANN models/architectures produced a mean absolute percentage error between 4 and 6%, proving the ability of the ANN models based to forecast this time series. Besides, the feedforward architecture behaved better considering validation and test sets, with 4.2% percentage error in test set.

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