Title
An enhanced application of Lotka-Volterra model to forecast the sales of two competing retail formats.
Abstract
•An enhanced application of LV-model for forecasting two competing retail formats.•Revenues embedded with trend, competition, and seasonal components are compound data.•Monthly revenues as input of LV-model may lead to unsatisfactory forecast accuracy.•Accuracy substantially improved by input decomposed competition component to LV-model.•Two retail formats form a predator-prey relationship; convenience-oriented format is predator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.cie.2017.05.022
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Lotka–Volterra equations,Forecasting,Retail formats
Revenue,Lotka–Volterra equations,Population,Economics,Interaction,Sales forecasting,Volterra equations,Operations management,Empirical research
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
109
0360-8352
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui-Chih Hung120.78
Yu-Chih Chiu210.37
Huang-Chen Huang310.37
Muh-Cherng Wu422716.58