The M3-Competition continues to improve the design of forecasting competitions: It examines more series than any … previous competition, improves error analyses. and includes commercial forecasting programs as competitors. To judge where to …

its probable success given future trends and its impacts on the human and natural environment. Forecasting, by which I …

In forecasting demand for expensive consumer goods, direct questioning of potential consumers about their future …

When we first began publication of the Journal of Forecasting, we reviewed policies that were used by other journals …

The following hypotheses about long-range market forecasting were examined: Hl Objective methods provide more accuracy … are more accurate for long range market forecasting than are the major alternatives, expert judgment and extrapolation …

Individuals and organizations have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in an intuitive manner … those problems. However, informal planning and forecasting are expensive activities; this raises questions about their … superiority over informal planning and forecasting. Furthermore, critics of the formal approach claim that it introduces rigidity …

There exists a large number of quantitative extrapolative forecasting methods which may be applied in research work or … implemented in an organizational setting. For instance, the lead article of this issue of the Journal of Forecasting compares the … ability to forecast the future of over twenty univariate forecasting methods. Forecasting researchers in various academic …