Forecasting of customer demands for production planning by local k-nearest neighbor models

M Kück, M Freitag - International Journal of Production Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Demand forecasting is of major importance for manufacturing companies since it provides a
basis for production planning. However, demand forecasting can be a difficult task because …

Application of a hybrid association rules/decision tree model for drought monitoring

V Nourani, A Molajou - Global and Planetary Change, 2017 - Elsevier
The previous researches have shown that the incorporation of the oceanic-atmospheric
climate phenomena such as Sea Surface Temperature (SST) into hydro-climatic models …

Methodological and conceptual challenges in rare and severe event forecast-verification

PA Ebert, P Milne - Natural Hazards and Earth System …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
There are distinctive methodological and conceptual challenges in rare and severe event
(RSE) forecast-verification, that is, in the assessment of the quality of forecasts involving …

Application of Z-numbers to teleconnection modeling between monthly precipitation and large scale sea surface temperature

H Najafi, V Nourani, E Sharghi, K Roushangar… - Hydrology …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
The teleconnection modeling of hydro-climatic events is a complex problem with highly
uncertain circumstances. In contrast to the classic fuzzy logic methods, by using the Z …

[PDF][PDF] Large‐scale teleconnection patterns and synoptic climatology of major snow‐avalanche winters in the Presidential Range (New Hampshire, USA)

JP Martin, D Germain - International Journal of Climatology, 2017 - researchgate.net
The relationships between the synoptic climatology, large-scale teleconnections and the
regional avalanche activity index (RAAI) inferred from tree-rings were evaluated for the …

A multi-model decision support system (MM-DSS) for avalanche hazard prediction over North-West Himalaya

P Kaur, JC Joshi, P Aggarwal - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
Avalanche forecasting is carried out using physical as well as statistical models. All these
models have certain limitations associated with their mathematical formulation that enable …

Threshold-based hybrid data mining method for long-term maximum precipitation forecasting

V Nourani, MT Sattari, A Molajou - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, the application of two data mining techniques (decision tree and association
rules) was offered to discover affiliation between several thresholds of monthly precipitation …

Snow-avalanche hazard assessment based on dendrogeomorphic reconstructions and classification tree algorithms for ski area development, Parâng Mountains …

D Germain, OT Pop, M Gratton, IH Holobâcă… - Cold Regions Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores the snow-avalanche regime based on tree-ring reconstructions and
their triggering weather conditions with classification tree algorithms. The results show a …

Exploration–exploitation balance in Artificial Bee Colony algorithm: a critical analysis

A Singh, K Deep - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a popular metaheuristic due to its simplicity
yet a stronger search mechanism. However, some researchers have reported that ABC …

Spatial variability of rainfall trends in Iran

M Javari - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2017 - Springer
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the spatial variability of rainfall trends using
the spatial variability methods of rainfall trend patterns in Iran. The study represents a …