Deadline extended, the NEW DEADLINE for the competition is the 10th of February of 2012.

All submissions will be invited to participate into IEEE-EAIS 2012 conference, in the special session titled "Computational Intelligence applied to Forecast Time Series". Deadline for the special session is the 15th of February of 2012.

For more information contact jperalta@inf.uc3m.es

Forecast a dataset of 8 time series, most of them come from a web bookshop data, as accurately as possible using methods from computational intelligence and applying a consistent methodology. The data consists of 8 time series with different time frequencies, that could include yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and hourly data.

We seek to evaluate the accuracy of computational intelligence (CI) methods in time series forecasting with multiple frequencies. We seek to determine progress in modelling CI for forecasting & to disseminate knowledge on “best practices” across time series of different frequencies. The contestants will use a unique  consistent methodology for all time series.

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