Improving hotel room demand forecasting with a hybrid GA-SVR methodology based on skewed data transformation, feature selection and parsimony tuning

  1. Urraca, R. 2
  2. Sanz-Garcia, A. 13
  3. Fernandez-Ceniceros, J. 2
  4. Pernia-Espinoza, A. 2
  5. Martinez-De-Pison, F.J. 2
  1. 1 University of Helsinki
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    University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finlandia

    ROR https://ror.org/040af2s02

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

  3. 3 Tokyo Women's Medical University
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    Tokyo Women's Medical University

    Tokio, Japón

    ROR https://ror.org/03kjjhe36

Revista:
Logic Journal of the IGPL

ISSN: 1367-0751

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 25

Número: 6

Páginas: 877-889

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1093/JIGPAL/JZX029 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85042184229 WoS: WOS:000417432000003 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Logic Journal of the IGPL

Resumen

This article presents a hybrid methodology in which a KDD scheme is optimized to build accurate parsimonious models. The methodology tries to find the best model by using genetic algorithms to optimize a KDD scheme formed with the following stages: feature selection, transformation of the skewed input and the output data, parameter tuning and parsimonious model selection. The results obtained demonstrated the optimization of these steps that significantly improved the model generalization capabilities in some UCI databases. Finally, this methodology was applied to create room demand parsimonious models using booking databases from a hotel located in a region of Northern Spain. The results proved that the proposed method created models with higher generalization capacity and lower complexity compared to those obtained with classical KDD process. © The Author 2017.