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<P><B><FONT size=2>You have ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT left to submit your abstract to the NN3 Forecating Competition session at the ISF'07 conference!</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT color=#ff9900>Deadlines</FONT><BR></B>- submission ONLY OF <B>ABSTRACT</B> until 02 March 2007 <BR>- Full predictions not due until 14 May 2007!</P>
<P><B><FONT color=#ff9900>Conference</FONT><BR></B>The 27th International Symposium on Forecasting (<A href="http://www.isf2007.org">www.isf2007.org</A>)<BR>24-27 June 2007, Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York City, USA.</P>
<P>The ISF is the premier international conference for academics and professionals in forecasting.<BR>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.</P>
<P><FONT color=#ff9900><B>NN3 Objectives & Methods<FONT size=+0> </FONT></B></FONT><FONT color=#000000>(<A href="http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com"><FONT color=#0000ff>www.neural-forecasting-competition.com</FONT></A>) <BR></FONT>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</P>
<P>Your NN3 opportunities: conference presentation, invitation to journal & book publications, awards!</P>
<P><B><FONT color=#ff9900>Publication of Results</FONT></B><BR>The abstrat submitted to the ISF'07 will be presented at a dedicated workshop of the main conference. All accepted ISF'07 submissions will be <BR>- 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). <BR>- 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) </P>
<P><FONT color=#ff9900><B>ISF'07 Dates & deadlines</B></FONT><BR>02 March 2007 Abstract submission to ISF'07 website --> Select subject area "Neural Networks"<BR>14 May 2007 Submission of final prediction values due<BR>24-27 June 2007 ISF'07 Competition Workshop<BR>15 October 2007 Submissions to full publications</P>
<P>Please visit the NN3 website at <A href="http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/">http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/</A> for further instructions.</P>
<P>GOOD LUCK!<BR>Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos</P>
<P>_____________________________________________________<BR>Sven F. Crone</P>
<P>Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting <BR>Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science</P>
<P>Lancaster University Management School <BR>Lancaster LA1 4YX<BR>United Kingdom</P>
<P>Internet <A href="http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk">http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk</A> <BR>eMail <A href="mailto:s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk">s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk</A><BR>_______________________________________________</P></BODY></HTML>