New Workshop Initiative: Democratising Forecasting, a series of workshops on forecasting using R, offered in developing countries This project aims to ‘train the trainers’ in the form of university students, academics and professionals on the principles of forecasting using R software to support decision making. [...]
We are planning a Special Section on Food and Agriculture Forecasting The fast growing world population brings a critical challenge to humanity: how to ensure adequate supply and access to safe, healthy food. Accurate forecasts provide valuable information to help in formulating national [...]
Press Release 19.06.2018 The M-Competitions and their far-reaching contributions to the Theory and Practice of Forecasting The latest edition (M4) highlights that hybrid approaches and combinations of forecasting methods produce greater accuracy The M4 (Makridakis 4) is the latest edition of the [...]
Forecasting has long been an essential part of OR/MS and is now making a major contribution to the fast-developing area of business analytics. Forecasts are a necessary input into almost all planning decisions, be they long- or short-term, but they are also [...]
The newest Foresight guidebook, Forecast Accuracy Measurement: Pitfalls to Avoid and Practices to Adopt is designed to enhance your use of appropriate practices in forecast accuracy measurement, and to suggest alternatives that may provide new and better insights. Written by top forecasting practitioners, [...]
Alert: International Journal of Forecasting New articles available on ScienceDirect | New Articles in Press, 25 May Forecast quality improvement with Action Research: A success story at PharmaCo Available online 24 May 2018 Christina Jane Phillips, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Access the ScienceDirect site if [...]
Workshop: Forecasting Using R New York, New York (Ebay Office, 625 6th Avenue) 25-27 June 2018 Professor Rob Hyndman will be in New York to teach his 3-day workshop on Forecasting using R. This will be the first time the workshop will be offered [...]
Alert: International Journal of Forecasting New articles available on ScienceDirect | New Articles in Press, 18 April Online adaptive lasso estimation in vector autoregressive models for high dimensional wind power forecasting Available online 17 April 2018 Jakob W. Messner, Pierre Pinson Considerations [...]
The area of forecasting and its link to decision making has been under research for decades. Whilst there have been many influential contributions seeking to examine the effects of forecasting under financial and economic motives, very little has been contributed (both in [...]
The prize is generously funded by Professor Tao Hong. This year, we will award the prize to a paper published in the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) during the period 2015-2016. The prize will be US$1000 plus an engraved plaque. The award [...]