Bahman Rostami-Tabar, PhD Assistant Professor in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a bachelor degree in industrial engineering I was first exposed to forecasting in an inventory control course I took at the time. [...]
Forecasting Summer School ~ Recent developments in econometric forecasting When: June 16-17, 2018 Where: University of Colorado, Boulder | USA The IIF is pleased to announce a new initiative, the Forecasting Summer School. The topic for our first program is Recent developments in econometric [...]
Note from the editor: We open this 48th issue of Foresight with an announcement of the goals and participation rules for the upcoming forecasting-methods competition, the M4. The M in all the competitions— the original, the M2, the M3, and now the [...]
M4 Competition begins 1 January 2018 ~ Registration is now open! There are two similar instances when I have felt extremely frustrated in my academic career. The first was forty years ago when I presented a paper in the Royal Statistical Society [...]
Alert: International Journal of Forecasting New articles available on ScienceDirect New Articles in Press, 16 December Automatic selection of unobserved components models for supply chain forecasting Marco A. Villegas, Diego J. Pedregal For many companies, automatic forecasting has come to be an [...]
Alert: International Journal of Forecasting New articles available on ScienceDirect New Articles in Press, 21 November Wage against the machine: A generalized deep-learning market test of dataset value Original Research Article Available online 20 November 2017 Philip Z. Maymin Data-based mechanistic modelling [...]
Call for Papers The ISF Program Committee invites you to submit abstracts related to the theory and practice of forecasting. Suggested themes and topics and full submission rules are available here. The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier international event for professional [...]
Announcing the M4 Forecasting Competition Statistical Forecasting vs Machine Learning Methods 1 JAN 2018 - 31 MAY 2018 The M4 Forecasting Competition is the next step in the evolution of the Makridakis or M-Competitions, which aims to identify the most accurate forecasting [...]
Alert: New Demand Forecasting article posted in International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 1-146, January–March 2018 Book review: Demand Forecasting for Managers, Stephan Kolassa, Enno Siemsen, Business Expert Press, LLC, New York (2016) The field of time series modelling and forecasting [...]
Foresight Practitioner Conference November 15-16, 2017 Raleigh, North Carolina | North Carolina State University Discounts available for Members and Subscribers to Foresight! Join us, our partners at the Institute of Advanced Analytics, and our panel of esteemed speakers - experienced practitioners, renowned [...]
