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      Predicting hotel booking cancellations to decrease uncertainty and increase revenue Translated title: Previsão de cancelamentos de reservas de hotéis para diminuir a incerteza e aumentar a receita

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          Booking cancellations have a substantial impact in demand-management decisions in the hospitality industry. Cancellations limit the production of accurate forecasts, a critical tool in terms of revenue management performance. To circumvent the problems caused by booking cancellations, hotels implement rigid cancellation policies and overbooking strategies, which can also have a negative influence on revenue and reputation. Using data sets from four resort hotels and addressing booking cancellation prediction as a classification problem in the scope of data science, authors demonstrate that it is possible to build models for predicting booking cancellations with accuracy results in excess of 90%. This demonstrates that despite what was assumed by Morales and Wang (2010) it is possible to predict with high accuracy whether a booking will be canceled. Results allow hotel managers to accurately predict net demand and build better forecasts, improve cancellation policies, define better overbooking tactics and thus use more assertive pricing and inventory allocation strategies

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          O cancelamento de reservas tem um impacto substancial nas decisões de gestão da procura na industria hoteleira. Os cancelamentos limitam a produção de previsões precisas, uma ferramenta crítica em termos de desempenho de gestão da receita. Para limitar os problemas causados pelo cancelamento de reservas, os hotéis implementam políticas de cancelamento rígidas e estratégias de overbooking, as quais podem vir a ter influência negativa sobre a receita e reputação social. Usando conjuntos de dados de quatro hotéis de resort e abordando a previsão de cancelamento de reservas como um problema de classificação no âmbito da Data Science, os autores demonstram que é possível construir modelos para prever cancelamentos de reservas com resultados superiores a 90%. Estes resultados permitem demonstrar que apesar do que foi assumido por Morales e Wang (2010) é possível prever com alta precisão se uma reserva será cancelada. Os resultados permitem que os hoteleiros prevejam com melhor precisão a procura líquida e construam melhores previsões, melhorem as políticas de cancelamento, definam melhores táticas de overbooking e usem estratégias de alocação de inventário com preços mais assertivos

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              Application of the mutual information criterion for feature selection in computer-aided diagnosis.

              The purpose of this study was to investigate an information theoretic approach to feature selection for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). The approach is based on the mutual information (MI) concept. MI measures the general dependence of random variables without making any assumptions about the nature of their underlying relationships. Consequently, MI can potentially offer some advantages over feature selection techniques that focus only on the linear relationships of variables. This study was based on a database of statistical texture features extracted from perfusion lung scans. The ultimate goal was to select the optimal subset of features for the computer-aided diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Initially, the study addressed issues regarding the approximation of MI in a limited dataset as it is often the case in CAD applications. The MI selected features were compared to those features selected using stepwise linear discriminant analysis and genetic algorithms for the same PE database. Linear and nonlinear decision models were implemented to merge the selected features into a final diagnosis. Results showed that the MI is an effective feature selection criterion for nonlinear CAD models overcoming some of the well-known limitations and computational complexities of other popular feature selection techniques in the field.
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                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                tms
                Tourism & Management Studies
                TMStudies
                Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo da Universidade do Algarve (Faro, , Portugal )
                2182-8458
                2182-8466
                June 2017
                : 13
                : 2
                : 25-39
                Affiliations
                [1] Lisbon orgnameISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Portugal nuno_miguel_antonio@ 123456iscte.pt
                [3] Lisbon orgnameISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa orgdiv1ISTAR Portugal luis.nunes@ 123456iscte.pt
                [2] Lisbon orgnameISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa orgdiv1CISUC Portugal ana.almeida@ 123456iscte.pt
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                S2182-84582017000200003
                6452453e-c078-40fd-bf4e-d48a0e83656c

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 28 June 2016
                : 15 July 2016
                : 15 November 2016
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 43, Pages: 15
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                revenue management,modelos preditivos,gestão da receita,Data science,hospitality industry,machine learning,predictive modeling,hotelaria,aprendizagem automática

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