“…Published works about forecast demand have analyzed various products, such as beer (Calôba, Calôba, and Saliby, 2002); fresh milk (Doganis, Alexandridis, Patrinos, and Sarimveis, 2006); other perishable products (Higuchi, 2006); food retail (Zotteri;Kalchschmidt, and Caniato, 2005); wireless subscribers (Venkatesan and Kumar, 2002); supermarket sales (Taylor, 2007), number of births (Souto, Baldeon, and Russo, 2006); plastic products (Pellegrini and Fogliatto, 2000); price forecast (Medeiros, Montevechi, Rezende, and Reis, 2006); and analysis of stock market indicators (Faria, Albuquerque, Alfonso, Albuquerque, and Cavalcante, 2008), among others.…”