[IJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19] Antonio García-Ferrer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid This is a summary of a set of weekly reports (that I have been writing since 3/25/2020) about measuring and forecasting the effects of COVID-19 in [...]
[IJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19] Jennifer L. Castle, Jurgen A. Doornik and David F. Hendry COVID-19 currently dominates the physical and economic well-being of individuals and societies globally. We have published real-time short-term forecasts for confirmed cases [...]
[IJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19] Fotios Petropoulos, Spyros Makridakis and Neophytos Stylianou Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic presents humanity with a profound challenge, not confronted for more than 100 years, since the occurrence of the Spanish flu in1918. [...]
All the world's human population is affected by the current pandemic of COVID-19, its potential impact on health, as well as related measures e.g. confinement and social distancing, which have an impact on our economies and communities. In this situation, all of [...]
Every two years, the International Journal of Forecasting awards a prize to the best paper on energy forecasting. The prize is generously funded by Professor Tao Hong. This year, we will award the prize to a paper published in the IJF during the period 2017-2018. The prize will [...]
Spyros Makridakis University of Nicosia IIF Founding Father and Fellow How did it all begin (IIF/ISF and the JF/IJF)? Towards the end of the 1970s, I was working at INSEAD France when the editor of Wiley UK visited me at the university. [...]
July 6-7, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive spike in concerns and uncertainties and raised challenges in macroeconomic forecasting surrounding almost every aspect. The purpose of this virtual workshop is to bring together researchers working on various [...]
This Spring 2020 issue of Foresight—number 57 since the journal began in 2005— leads off with Associate Editor Mike Gilliland’s discussion of The M4 Forecasting Competition: Takeaways for the Practitioner. Mike writes: The M4 competition (2018) like its predecessors M (1979), M2 (1983), and M3 (1998), [...]
Editorial Pierre Pinson, IJF Editor in Chief; Technical University of Denmark 1. Forecasting – Observing the past and looking towards the future Forecasting has been of interest to human kind since the beginning of times, always being a multi-faceted discipline – some even [...]
21st International Symposium on Inventories 24-28 August 2020 Radisson Blu Béke Hotel, Budapest, Hungary Deadline for abstract submission: March 31, 2020 The International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) organizes its 21st International Symposium on Inventories, the only scholarly forum in the [...]
