MULTIFOR: A Multidisciplinary Framework for the identification of new target markets by open time-series data and deep learning methods


Fig.1 - MULTIFOR framework abstract view

Framework

MULTIFOR framework principles, are the following:

Robust PESTEL analysis, as a means of selecting the appropriate indicators (features) that are necessary to carry out the Business Internationalization,
A set of predefined indicators for European countries
Open data exploitation.
Implementation of a LSTM RNN approach,
Non-stationary time-series forecasting.


Fig.2 - MULTIFOR Web Service

The MULTIFOR Web app, as demonstrated in Figure’s 3 site-map, consists of the three following pages:


Fig.3 - Site-map

Map Page, which is the home page, and contains an interactive map of the European countries included in the project, as illustrated in the screenshot of Figure 4.


Fig.4 - Map page

PESTEL Analysis page, which contains an interactive pie chart with the PESTEL analysis headers, revealing their included indicators in a list whenever hovered, as displayed in Figure 5.

Fig.5 - PESTEL-Analysis page
Charts Page, a screenshot of which is depicted in Figure 6, contains the main functionality, developed for the main interaction with the user for time-series analysis, compare and forecasting.

Fig.6 - Chart page