Forecasting is one of the most important activities that form the basis for strategic, tactical, and operational decisions in all business organizations. Recently, neural networks have emerged as an important tool for business forecasting. There are considerable interests and applications in forecasting using neural networks. Neural Networks in Business Forecasting provides for researchers and practitioners some recent advances in applying neural networks to business forecasting. A number of case studies demonstrating the innovative or successful applications of neural networks to many areas of business as well as methods to improve neural network forecasting performance are presented.

预测是所有业务组织中构成战略、战术和运营决策基础的最重要活动之一。最近，神经网络已经成为商业预测的重要工具。神经网络在预测中有着广泛的应用前景。商业预测中的神经网络为研究人员和实践者提供了将神经网络应用于商业预测的一些最新进展。本文介绍了一些案例研究，展示了神经网络在许多商业领域的创新或成功应用，以及提高神经网络预测性能的方法。