The Lancaster Centre for Forecasting (LCF) is a research centre dedicated to forecasting. With over 15 staff and PhD students, LCF hosts the largest research unit dedicated to forecasting in Europe. Their newsletter for 2008/9 holds updates on their current activities how they support organisations facing forecasting challenges.
Activities
The Lancaster Centre for Forecasting has gone from strength to strength in the past two years, increasing the focus on collaborative research with organizations through a number of avenues. Its core staff of Professor Robert Fildes (Director), Dr Sven Crone and Dr Didier Soopramanien continue to work in all areas …
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Projects
The Forecasting Centre actively engages in corporate projects all year round, and delivers applied research and consultancy services directly to organisations in two ways: corporate research projects of senior staff (often with PhD student support), and 5-10 annual Master student projects lasting 3 months. Recent corporate projects include forecasting software development …
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Training Courses
The Lancaster Centre for Forecasting has increased the number of open training courses and bespoke in-house training courses for corporate clients. Courses cover fundamental forecasting training of statistical forecasting methods (e.g. exponential smoothing and regression), enhanced forecasting methods (e.g. artificial neural networks) and tailored training for software-systems (e.g. SAP APO-DP). In 2008 the Forecasting Centre has provided over 10 weeks of …
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Conferences
Key events in the forecasting calendar are the various forecasting meetings and conferences. The Forecasting Centre takes an active role in disseminating our research and networking with our clients at conferences, with over 30 presentations worldwide last year at conferences …
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Publications
The Forecasting Centre has successfully disseminated its research in a variety of publications. Selected publications in 2008 include the following papers which are available to you upon request.
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The complete newsletter can be viewed online at http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/news/LCF_enews-0809/