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Special Session Stream Organisers
Fellow Forecasters!
We have the pleasure
of co-chairing the “Forecasting and Time Series
Predictions” stream of special sessions to be held at
EURO 2012 conference, to be held on 8- 11 July 2012, in
Vilnius, Lithuania (http://www.euro-2012.lt).
We would like to personally invite you, both researchers
and practitioners, to propose a special session to be
organised within this stream - on any particular
forecasting related topic you are interested in - or to
present a paper in one of the accepted special sessions
or in the general session on Forecasting.
We look forward to seeing you in Vilnius!
Dr. Sven F. Crone
Prof. Antonio J. Rodrigues
Prof. Aris Syntetos
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Dr. Sven F.
Crone
Assistant Professor in Management Science (Lecturer)
Deputy Director, Lancaster Research Centre for
Forecasting
Sven F. Crone
is an Assistant Professor in Management Science
at Lancaster University, UK, where his research
on forecasting with artificial intelligence has
resulted in 40+ peer reviewed articles (including
EJOR, JORS, IJF) and received international
awards. As the Deputy Director of the Lancaster
Centre for Forecasting, with 15 members of staff
& PhD students one of the largest units
dedicated to business forecasting, Crone has
more than 10 years of consultancy experience in
corporate projects, including supply chain
forecasting (e.g. Beiersdorf, Sanofi-Aventis,
Bayer, Celanese, Hapag-Lloyd), retail
forecasting (e.g. Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury,
Wilkinsons), and utilities demand and price
forecasting (e.g. DONG, Codelco). Crone
regularly provides corporate training courses
for the Forecasting Centre, IBF and IEEE
worldwide as well as custom-made in-house
courses. He has been a regular speaker at 50+
academic and practitioner conferences, including
keynotes at SAS' Business Forecasting
Conferences F2006 & 2009 and SAS' Data Mining
Conference M2009, and served as the conference
co-chair of SAS' Analytics Conference 2011 in
Orlando.
Lancaster University Management School
Department of Management Science
Lancaster LA1 4YX, United Kingdom
Tel +44 (1524)
592991 direct
Internet
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk
eMail
s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk
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Dr/Prof
Antonio J. Rodrigues, PhD
Antonio Rodrigues is, since
2002, Associate Professor of Operations Research
at Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. His
research — publications, theses supervision and
applied projects — spread across time series
forecasting, decision support systems, neural
networks, systems analysis and simulation, and
risk analysis. Currently, he's mainly involved
in a NATO sponsored project in the area of
defense, relating to all the above topics
University of Lisbon
Operations Research Center
DEIO-FCUL
1749-016 Lisboa
Portugal
Tel. (+351) 217500027
Email:
ajrodrigues@fc.ul.pt
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Professor Aris
A. Syntetos, Ph.D.
Operations Management, Management Science and
Statistics
Aris A. Syntetos is Professor of Operational
Research (OR) and Operations Management (OM) at
the University of Salford. His research
interests relate primarily to supply chain
forecasting and inventory management/modeling
and he has published widely in this area. He has
also conducted numerous research projects and
knowledge transfer partnerships funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC), Royal Society and the
Technology Strategy Board, UK. Aris is a
co-editor in chief of the IMA Journal of
Management Mathematics (Oxford University Press)
and Associate Editor (Viewpoints) of the Journal
of the Operational Research Society (Palgrave
McMillan). He serves at the Executive Committee
of the International Society for Inventories
Research (ISIR) and the General Council of the
Operational Research Society.
Salford Business School
University of Salford
Maxwell Building
Manchester
M5 4WT, UK
Tel. ++ 44 (0)161 295 5804
http://www.business.salford.ac.uk/staff/aris
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