M Publications

The findings, conclusions and discussions of the M competitions are being published in academic and professional journals aimed at disseminating available knowledge and advancing the theory and practice of forecasting with the M competition papers having received more than 7,500 citations so far while motivating the publishing of more than 100 papers written, expanding the M competitions. There has also been the paper “A brief history of forecasting competitions” stating: Forecasting competitions are now so widespread that it is often forgotten how controversial they were when first held, and how influential they have been over the years. “In addition, there has been special issues of the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) exclusively devoted to the M competitions. The special issues include many papers, describing the winning methods as wells as discussion papers and commentaries of the various aspects of the corresponding competition.

A related publication to the M Competitions is the paper “The future of forecasting competitions: Design attributes and principles” published in Informs the Journal of Data Science (IJDS) (see here).

Another paper “The Impact of Large Language Models like ChatGPT on Forecasting” was published in the journal forecasting (See here (link https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9394/5/3/30) covering the crucial topic of AI. So is the co-edited book (M. Hamoudia, S. Makridakis and E. Spiliotis) “Forecasting with Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications”, exploring various theoretical and practical issues of AI.

The Impact of Large Language Models like ChatGPT on Forecasting