The purpose of the M2-Competition is to determine the post sample accuracy of various forecasting methods. It is an empirical study organized in such a way as to avoid the major criticism of the M-Competition that forecasters ...

This paper examines a major area of statistics: the application of time series analysis to forecasting, particularly as it applies to the areas of business and economics. This area is unusual in the social sciences in that ...

This rejoinder attempts to show that Bickhard's criticism is irrelevant to our theory and epistemologically one-sided. It is irrelevant because our theory is pragmaticist and interactivist at a number of levels ignored by ...

Chess is an intellectually demanding game played by millions of people around the world. Yet unlike tennis or other competitive sports there are few changes in the rankings of chess players. There have only been twelve ...

Lately there has been a renewed interest in strategic planning after more than a decade of focusing on operational concerns such as total quality, downsizing, benchmarking and reengineering. Will strategic planning provide ...

Long-term predictions are indispensable for planning and strategy. Yet little is known about their value, their limitations or the most appropriate way of making and using them. This paper examines these issues and proposes ...

First, it is practically oriented. It avoids theoretical, and mathematical discussions. It directly gets into how to use it, when to use it, what it is used for, and what resources are required of it. It includes many ...

This paper extends the empirical evidence on the forecasting accuracy of extrapolative methods. The robustness of the major conclusions of the M-Competition data is examined in the context of the telecommunications data ...

Το ερώτημα που πλανάται συχνά στις συζητήσεις για τον ρατσισμό, πιστεύω, πως είναι αν υπάρχει τελικά στην Ελλάδα ρατσιστικό φαινόμενο. Το ερώτημα αυτό, που υποδηλώνεται χωρίς να αντιμετωπίζεται ευθέως από τους ομιλητές ή ...

Οι επιστημονικές εργασίες που σχετίζονται με την ιστορία και τον πολιτισμό της πόλης των Σερρών και της ευρύτερης περιοχής της είναι πάντα ευπρόσδεκτες στον ανήσυχο πνευματικό ιστό των κατοίκων, στους ανθρώπους που διψούν ...