Application Deadline - February 22, 2016 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 for [...]
Forecasting New Products and Services: Research and Applications 12-13 May 2016 Milano, Italy | Politecnico di Milano Increasingly connected products and services have to fulfill more and more requirements and their development cycles risk to extend largely beyond planned market introduction. In this sense, [...]
Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, in collaboration with the IIF and SAS, is hosting the 19th IIF Workshop on the topic, Supply Chain Forecasting for Operations. The workshop is intended to stimulate forecasting research in the area of supply chain operations and selected papers will [...]
How did you get started in forecasting? While studying for my bachelor’s degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I was very fortunate to meet my mentor, Kostas Nikolopoulos, at that time coordinator of the Forecasting [...]
The Fall 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference, October 5-6, 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina Foresight has teamed up with the Advanced Analytics Institute at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh to offer a tantalizing 1.5-day conference: Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today’s Mistakes to Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs The greatest [...]
This 39th issue of Foresight features a special section on forecasting support systems (FSS) developed by our FSS Editor Fotios Petropoulos. His article Forecasting Support Systems: Ways Forward highlights three main areas for improvement: better utilization of open-source software and Web-based features, adoption of important methods [...]
Forecasting - Geoff Allen and Robert Fildes have recently contributed an on-line bibliography in forecasting for Oxford University Press: Fildes, R. & Allen, P.G. (2015), in Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. R. Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press. The history of forecasting [...]
The IIF is saddened to report the news of the passing of Robert Goodrich, an IIF Fellow and leader in the field of forecasting. Bob was the President of Business Forecast Systems Inc., USA. He was recognized for his sustained development of [...]
The deadline date for applications is September 30, 2015. For the thirteenth 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 [...]
For the thirteenth 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) $5,000 grants. For more details and to apply, [...]