Connectionists: NN3 Forecasting Competition - ISF'07 deadline extension

[Sven F. Crone]

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 ISF'07 Forecasting Competition NN3
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The DEADLINE for the abstract submission to the NN3 competition session
at the 2007 International Symposium on Forecasting, New York City, 
HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 16 MARCH 2007!

--> Submit your abstract of LESS THEN 300 WORDS by 16 MARCH 2007  
--> Submit your full NN3 predictions by 14 MAY 2007!


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Conference                    
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The 27th International Symposium on Forecasting, 24-27 June 2007 Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York City, USA.
www.isf2007.org

The ISF is the premier conference for academics and professionals in forecasting.
KEY SPEAKERS include Nobel Price laureate Robert Engle, Charles Manski, M. Hashem Pesaran, Kevin Trenberth, J. Scott Armstrong, Robert Fildes, Paul Goodwin, David Hendry, Stephen Penman, Herman Stekler, Allan Timmermann, Victor Zarnowitz and Arnold Zellner.

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NN3 Objectives & Methods
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Forecast 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to disseminate knowledge on “best practices”. The competition is for academic purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF). 

The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time series analysis

Your NN3 opportunities: conference presentation, invitation to journal & book publications, awards!

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Publication of Results
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The abstract submitted to the ISF'07 will be presented at a dedicated workshop of the main conference. All accepted ISF'07 submissions will be 

- considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF, Elsevier) on "Neural Networks for Forecasting" (ISI SCI, DBLP, EBSCO, ScienceDirect etc. indexed). 
- invited for submission of extended versions in an edited book “Advances in Forecasting wit Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence”, Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), (pending) 


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ISF'07 Dates & deadlines
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16 March 2007    Abstract submission to ISF'07 website --> Select Neural Networks 
14 May 2007      Submission of final prediction values due
24-27 June 2007  ISF'07 Competition Workshop
15 October 2007  Submissions to full publications

Please visit the NN3 website at http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions.

GOOD LUCK!

Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

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Sven F. Crone

Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science

Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
United Kingdom

Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk 
eMail    s.crone at lancaster.ac.uk
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