A generous donation from Professor Tao Hong has funded this award for papers on energy forecasting published in the International Journal of Forecasting. The award was first given in 2016 for papers published within 2013–2014. The award decision for 2020, hence covering the period [...]
Guest Editors: George Athanasopoulosa, Rob J Hyndmana, Anastasios Panagiotelisb and Nikolaos Kourentzesc a Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Australia; b Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney, Australia; c Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab, Skövde University, Sweden. Organisations make multiple [...]
The M competitions have been instrumental in advancing the theory and practice of forecasting, with the last one, the M5 ending in June 30 of this year. It included two separate challenges the Accuracy and the Uncertainty tracks to distinguish and emphasize [...]
How did you become a forecaster? At some stage of my work in Microsoft, following one of the business reorganizations that happen regularly at large companies, I found myself in a rather nascent Azure organization that started to move from manual capacity [...]
Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Ellen Bonnell, Simon Clarke, Robert Fildes, Mike Gilliland, Jim Hoover, and Len Tashman Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, Fall 2020 issue The purpose of this paper is to provide a realistic assessment of the potential benefits [...]
The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce Esther Ruiz, Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with the title of IIF Fellow, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. Please join us in congratulating Esther! Esther Ruiz is [...]
For the seventeenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be (2) $10,000 grants. The deadline date for applications is [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pandemics and Forecasting: Seeing the Way Forward via the Taleb/Ioannidis Debate Boston, Mass., July 7, 2020 — The impact of COVID-19 clearly has serious implications for humanity, and the measures needed to fight the pandemic present a profound challenge [...]
John P.A. Ioannidis1, Sally Cripps2, Martin A. Tanner3 1 Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, California, [...]
Learning from the positions of Nassim N. Taleb and John P. Ioannidis in the COVID-19 debate 25 June 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a tremendous focus on forecasting as a key component for informing populations and for steering decisions throughout the [...]
