GEORIA TECH CIBER INTRODUCES THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORECASTING 2000

June 17-20
Callaway Gardens,
Pine Mountain, Georgia



Does your BUSINESS need BETTER PREDICTIONS?
Send your supply chain managers, forecast managers and forecasters to the International Symposium on Forecasting 2001. This annual conference of the International Institute of Forecasting, hosted this year by Georgia Tech (ISyE, DCoM, Public Policy, Economics, GT CIBER), is being held at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA.

The symposium features more than 50 presentations specifically focused on the practice of forecasting for business applications, including logistics, e-business, inventory, forecasting systems and forecast management. For firms with longer term needs, there are sessions for Technology Forecasting. And, for financial teams we'll have numerous presentations on forecasting interest rates, GDP, and leading indicators. Five pre-conference workshops, on topics ranging from auditing the forecast function to neural net methods, are available on June 17 for an additional fee. The workshops are:

  • Achieving World Class Forecasting: Auditing the Forecasting Process
    Mark Moon, University of Tennessee
  • Seasonal Adjustment and Modeling Diagnostics in X-12-ARIMA
    Catherine C. Hood and Brian C. Monsell, US Census Bureau
  • Improving Forecast Accuracy via Time Series Techniques
    Eric Stellwagen, Vice President and Co-Founder, Business Forecast Systems, Inc.
  • Regression Analysis and Time Series
    David Reilly, Vice-President, Automatic Forecasting Systems
  • Neural Networks in Economics: Principles, Techniques, Applications
    Hans Georg Zimmermann, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich,Germany

    •  Co-Sponsoring, among others:
    INFORMS, IIE, FEDERAL FORECASTERS CONFERENCE
    To register, please visit http://www.isf2001.org
    One day or full conference registrations available for as little as $200

    For more information, contact Program Chair Dr. Russell Heikes
    Phone: (404) 894-2331, E-mail: rheikes@isye.gatech.edu