ISF 2019 ~ Abstract submission deadline extended to March 15th
The deadline date for abstracts has been extended to March 15 2019 Research abstracts on all aspects of forecasting are welcome and may be submitted online at...
View ArticleLen Tashman previews Spring 2019 issue of Foresight
SAVE THE DATE: The 2019 Foresight Practitioner Conference Topic: Artificial Intelligence—The Hype and the Promise for Forecasting and Planning Dates: November 13-14, 2019 Venue: Rizzo Center, Chapel...
View ArticleISF 2019: Early Registration Deadline ~ Extended: 25 April 2019
To assist everyone in their registration and travel planning, we have extended the International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) early registration deadline to 25th April. We encourage you to register...
View ArticleMember Profile: Yves Sagaert
Yves Sagaert University of Ghent How did you get started in forecasting? In 2012, I got in touch with the field of forecasting through my master thesis. This inspired me to start a PhD the very next...
View ArticleForesight Practitioner Conference: Artificial Intelligence: The Hype and the...
2019 Foresight Practitioner Conference Is Coming! How will jobs and organizations be affected when machines of equal or superior intelligence amplify, supplement, and even substitute for forecaster...
View ArticleISF 2019 ~ Thank you to our Sponsors
The ISF 2019 Organizing Committee would like to extend a thank you to all of our sponsors! Their support of the mission of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) allows us to make the annual...
View ArticleIIF Research Fellow, Antonio Garcia-Ferrer, announced at ISF 2019
The IIF Board of Directors presented the award of IIF Research Fellow to Antonio Garcia-Ferrer, Professor of Econometrics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, as a distinguished researcher in the field...
View ArticleLen Tashman previews Summer 2019 issue of Foresight
This 54th edition of Foresight features an important new take on the role of judgment in the forecasting process. Normally, we see judgment applied to adjust a statistical forecast or supply a forecast...
View ArticleSAS-IIF Grant to Promote Research on Forecasting
For the sixteenth 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...
View ArticleForecasting Event: 22nd Dynamic Econometrics Conference
22nd Dynamic Econometrics Conference 9-10 September 2019 | Nuffield College, University of Oxford The 22nd Dynamic Econometrics Conference provides a forum for the presentation and exchange of research...
View ArticleISF 2019 – In Review
Aris, Pam and George ISF 2019 – General Chair Overview George Athanasopoulos, General Chair Aris Syntetos, Program Chair The 39th International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF2019) was a great success....
View ArticleAI: the hype and the promise for forecasting
Artificial Intelligence for Forecasting Can artificial intelligence augment and amplify our forecasting efforts? Will AI impact our forecasting roles and processes? Does AI deliver the automation and...
View ArticleInternational Journal of Forecasting, Editor in Chief announcement
The Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasting has appointed Prof. Pierre Pinson as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting starting October 2019. Pierre is...
View ArticleLen Tashman previews Fall 2019 issue of Foresight
This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern...
View ArticleNew IIF Section added: Macroforecasting
MacroFor : the Macroeconomic Forecasting section of the IIF This new section, in line with the IIF’s newly created sections, focusses on macroeconomic forecasting, comprising of GDP forecasting,...
View ArticleNew Guidebook: Artificial Intelligence
The newest Foresight guidebook, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is now available. AI is the name commonly given to the capacity of machines for mimicking the human aptitude to reason, solve problems, and...
View ArticleM Applied Forecasting Course | Guest Blog
Professor Spyros Makridakis is renowned as one of the world’s leading forecasting experts and organizer of the Makridakis Competitions. On behalf of Professor Makridakis, Director of the Institute For...
View ArticleForecasting training for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom
The Democratising Forecasting workshop initiative, with support from the IIF, is expanding and will deliver four forecasting workshops per year for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom,...
View ArticleForesight: Winter 2020
This Winter 2020 issue of Foresight—number 56 since the journal began in 2005—formally introduces a new section: Integrated Business Planning (IBP), the meaning of which is evolving from a term...
View Article26th IIF Workshop: Forecasting for Social Good
2nd International workshop on Forecasting for Social Good Call for Abstracts11-12 June 2020 Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France Sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), the...
View ArticleEarly Career Researchers (ECR) webinar: Career opportunities after graduation
1st ECR webinar — Career opportunities after graduation Presenter: Tim Januschowski, Manager, AWS Location: Online Time: 28 Jan 2020, 5 PM CET / 4 PM GMT / 11 AM EST / 10 AM CST / 8 AM PST Organizers:...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Forecasting for Social Good
International Journal of Forecasting: Special Section The 2nd international workshop on forecasting for social good, co-sponsored by the IIF, will take place in Bordeaux, France on 11-12 June 2020. The...
View ArticleMakridakis Open Forecasting Centre
On behalf of Professor Spyros Makridakis, Director of the Institute For the Future (IFF) at University of Nicosia (UNIC) it is a pleasure to introduce you to the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center...
View ArticleISF 2020 accepting applications for travel awards
The International Institute of Forecasters will grant travel awards to enable researchers to attend the International Symposium on Forecasting in Rio de Janeiro, July 5-8, 2020. They are...
View ArticleForecasting Summer School | Renewable energy
Forecasting Summer School ~ Renewable Energy Forecasting – Theory and Practice When: July 4-5, 2020 Where: Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The IIF is pleased to announce the 3rd...
View ArticleCall for abstracts, 40th International Symposium on Forecasting
The ISF Program Committee welcomes abstract submissions! We look forward to receiving inventive presentations that demonstrate again that the annual International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF)...
View ArticlePress Release: 40th International Symposium on Forecasting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Pam Stroud, Business Director International Institute of Forecasters +1.781.234.4077 isf@forecasters.org www.forecasters.org 40th International Symposium on...
View ArticlePress release: Launch M5 Forecasting Competition
Press Release 04.02.2020 UNIC, Walmart, and Kaggle Launch M5 Forecasting Competition The premier academic forecasting competition returns in service of advancing the theory and...
View ArticleInternational Symposium on Inventories, Call for papers
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...
View ArticleIJF Editorial: Pierre Pinson, Editor in Chief
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...
View ArticleForesight, Spring 2020 issue now available
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...
View ArticleVirtual IIF Workshop: Economic Forecasting in Times of Covid-19
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...
View ArticleMember Profile: Spyros Makridakis
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...
View ArticleIIF Tao Hong Award, energy forecasting
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...
View ArticleCall for Papers, update: Forecasting for Social Good
International Journal of Forecasting: Special Section [submission and workshop updates] The 2nd international workshop on forecasting for social good, co-sponsored by the IIF, will take place in...
View ArticleIJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19
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...
View ArticleForecasting COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths with a simple time-series model
[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...
View ArticleShort-term Forecasting of the Coronavirus Pandemic
[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...
View ArticleForecasting COVID-19 daily outcomes with simple transfer function models
[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...
View ArticleForecasting COVID-19 Using a Mixed Effects Model with Gaussian Atoms
[This is part of an IJF special section: Epidemics and forecasting with focus on COVID-19] Aleksandr Aravkin, IHME, University of Washington, Seattle Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic was declared on...
View ArticleIIF Elections, 2020 – Directors Announced
The IIF holds an election every March for new Directors, replacing those whose term has expired. We are delighted to announce the new Directors elected to the IIF Board: Anastasios Panagiotelis, Monash...
View ArticleVirtual ISF 2020–Rio de Janeiro | 26-28 October
We are pleased to announce Virtual ISF 2020–Rio de Janeiro with LIVE keynote lectures, practitioner talks, panel-discussion, workshops, contributed sessions, forecasting summer school and much more....
View ArticleCOVID-19: Ioannidis vs. Taleb
Learning from the positions of Nassim N. Taleb and John P. Ioannidis in the COVID-19 debate 11 June 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a tremendous focus on forecasting as a key component for...
View ArticleForecasting for COVID-19 has failed
John P.A. Ioannidis1, Sally Cripps2, Martin A. Tanner3 1 Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science,...
View ArticleJob Opportunity: Survey Expert, Deutsche Bundesbank
Deutsch Bundesbank: Survey Expert For the Research Centre at our Central Office in Frankfurt am Main, we are looking for a Survey expert on a full-time or part-time basis for a period of up to 4.5...
View ArticleJob opportunity: Cost & LTSS Director of Health and Human Services Forecasting
Texas Health and Human Services Position: Director I – Cost and LTSS, full-time Location: Austin, Texas Salary range: $6,000.00 – $9,783.08 US Dollar (monthly) At HHSC, we strive to make a difference...
View ArticlePress release: Pandemics and Forecasting: Seeing the Way Forward via the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pandemics and Forecasting: Seeing the Way Forward via the Taleb/Ioannidis Debate Boston, Mass., July 7, 2020 — The impact of COVID-19 clearly has serious implications for...
View ArticleJob Opportunity: Macro-Economist, Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank Position: Macro-Economist, consultant Location: work from anywhere Salary range: Up to USD 34,000 (output-based and partial lump sum salary) The objective of this consultancy is...
View ArticleJob Opportunity: Applied Macro-Econometrician / Forecaster, Asian Development...
Asian Development Bank Position: Applied Macro-Econometrician / Forecaster, consultant Location: work from anywhere Salary range: Up to USD 45,500 (output-based and partial lump sum salary) Armenia’s...
View ArticleJob Opportunity: Research Assistant, Deutsche Bundesbank
Deutsche Bundesbank Position: Research Assistant, one- to two-year contract, part-time (50%) Location: Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The Deutsche Bundesbank is an integral part of the...
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