CONTACT: Pam Stroud, Business Director International Institute of Forecasters +1.781.234.4077 isf@forecasters.org https://forecasters.org 37th International Symposium on Forecasting, June 25-28, 2017 in Cairns, Australia Boston, MA, February 27, 2017 – Integrating academic research into practical applications is one of the hallmarks of the [...]
Professor Robert Fildes, Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University and IIF Fellow, discusses a recent article by The Guardian (16 January 2017). Knocking forecasters is a popular new year’s activity, particularly when the Chief Economist of the Bank of England confesses to economists [...]
Application Deadline - 28 February 2017 The International Institute of Forecasters will grant travel awards to enable individuals from all over the world to attend the International Symposium on Forecasting. These awards are intended to supplement other sources of funding and are primarily [...]
Top Three Customer Questions ~ Here are just a few of the most commonly asked questions about the IIF: Does an IIF Membership include both hardcopy and online access to our journals? Yes. Members have complete online access to all past issues of the International [...]
(Cross-posted from Hyndsight) The International Symposium on Forecasting is a little unusual for an academic conference in that it has always had a strong presence of forecasters working in business and industry, as well as academic forecasters mostly working at universities. We [...]
How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering I was exposed to forecasting in an operations research and supply chain management course. I was also introduced to the classic book Forecasting: Methods and Applications by Makridakis, Wheelwright, [...]
Preview of the Winter 2017 issue of Foresight Winter scene from Len's office in Colorado Foresight begins the new year with our 44th issue since the journal began publishing in 2005, and in this Winter 2017 collection we’re showcasing a broad range [...]
(Syndicated from Hyndsight) Professor Tao Hong has generously funded a new prize for the best IJF paper on energy forecasting, to be awarded every two years. The first award will be for papers published in the International Journal of Forecasting during the [...]
How can we effectively aggregate disparate pieces of information that are spread among many different individuals? Prediction markets, which are essentially speculative markets created or employed for the purpose of aggregating information and making predictions, are a means of addressing this issue. [...]
How did you become a forecaster? It is a little fraudulent for me to claim that I am a forecaster! When asked to give an explicit forecast, the one thing I have learnt from my research is that forecasting is a perilous [...]
