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[Veska Noncheva]

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***   NN3 Neural Networks Forecasting Competition    ***
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The 2008 time series forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational
Intelligence Methods has started!
Please visit the NN5 website at http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for
further instructions.


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Objectives
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Forecast a set of either 11 or 111 empirical time series of daily cash wittdrawals
at cash machines 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 extends a previous competition supported by
SAS & the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF). 


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


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Publication of Results
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The results will be presented in special NN5 sessions at various conferences in
2008. All those submitting predictions will be invited to participate in one or more
events at the International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF'08), Nice, France, the
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'08) including IJCNN'08,
CEC'08 and FUZZ-IEEE'08, Hong Kong, China, and the International Conference on Data
Mining (DMIN'08), Las Vegas, USA. All conferences offer a stimulating environment
for forecasting researchers: the ISF'08 also offers a special track on forecasting
with neural networks and a full-day tutorial on neural networks for forecasting by
Hans-Georg Zimmerman (Siemens Research). DMIN'08 offers a special session on time
series forecasting using data mining techniques, various tutorials and a full
conference proceedings publication (indexed by Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, DBLP
and many more). Please consult the NN5 conference websites at
http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/conferences.htm for additional
information.


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Dates & deadlines
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Hurry! The deadline for submitting a 300-word abstract for the ISF'08 conference in
Nice is February 29, 2008. The official deadline to submitt draft papers to the
DMIN'08 conference is February 29, 2008 (but it will be extended by a few weeks
shortly). The deadline for submitting full papers for WCCI'08 has passed. For your
submission you will not need final prediction results, only a description of your
methodology to predict them!

18 February 2008 Publication of the reduced & complete dataset
18 May 2008      Predictions submissions due
June & July 2008 Publication of preliminary results at various conferences in
Europe, China & USA
August 2008      Submissions to full publications


GOOD LUCK!
Sven F. Crone