Dr Sven Crone

Lecturer

Research Interests

Research interest are centered around Forecasting for Logistics and Supply Chain Management with methods of statistics and artificial neural networks, and Data Mining.

Current topics include the use of neural networks for simultaneous forecasting and safety stock calculation in inventory management using asymmetric objetcive functions (motivated from marginal costs of the managerial decision process), forecasting model selection for SAP APO DP, and forecasting with neural networks for FMCG companies. General research directions encompass Management Science, i.e. Operational Research and Information Systems in the domains of Demand Planning within Inventory Management for Supply Chain Management & Operations Management, and extend in two mayor directions: Forecasting and Data Mining.

Current topics - also for PhD supervision - include:

  • Forecasting --> Methods, applications, processes and information systems for Demand Planning in Logistics and Supply Chain Management; design and use of Advanced Planning Systems (APS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, in particular SAP APO DP, for forecasting; model selection using statistics and / or machine (meta) learning; model parameterisation of statistical models using alternative objective functions;
  • Neural Networks for Forecasting --> Methods & applications for fully automatic Forecasting, e.g of seasonal, intermittent and generally instationary time series (outliers and level shifts); objective Functions for Neural Networks; Computational Intelligence methods (e.g. support vector regression) in forecasting and Data Mining
  • Neural Networks for Data Mining --> Methods & applications for Data Mining, Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence; impact of preprocessing on data mining methods in marketing and credit scoring

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN'13
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Predictive Analytics World 2012
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

European Conference on Operational Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Symposium on Forecasting, Annual Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

A2012, The 4th SAS Annual Analytics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

A2011, the 2011 SAS Analytics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'11, the 2011 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

SAS Utilities roundtable
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'11, the 2011 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, WFI School of Management
Visiting an external academic institution

University of Southanpton
Visiting an external academic institution

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Journal of Forecasting (Journal)
Editorial activity

A2010, the 2nd SAS Annual Analytics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DMIN'10, the 2010 International Conference on Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DMIN'10, the 2010 International Conference on Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'10, the 2010 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

F2010, the 4th SAS Conference on Business Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

University of Oviedo
Visiting an external academic institution

IBF'10 Institute of Business Forecasting Conference on Supply Chain Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IBF'10 International Conference on Supply Chain Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Annals of Information Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

Fordham University
Visiting an external academic institution

Operations Research Society of South Africa Conference '09
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Operations Research Society of South Africa Conference '09
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DMIN'09, the 2009 International Conference on Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

EURO XXIII - 23rd European Conference on Operational Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee

ISF'09, the 2009 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ORSSA'09, the 2009 Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society of South Africa
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

BAQMAR'08, the 2008 Annual Conference of the Belgian Association for Quantitative Direct Marketing Research
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

GOR Meeting of the Working Group on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

M2008, the 2008 SAS International Data Mining Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ESTSP'08, the 2008 European Symposium on Time Series Prediction
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IBF'08, European Supply Chain Forecasting Conference of the Institute of Business Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

German OR Association
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DMIN'08, the 2008 International Conference on Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'08, the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'08, the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'08, the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

UK KDD'09, the 2009 UK Annual Symposium on Data Mining by the British Computer Society
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (Journal)
Publication peer-review

International Journal of Forecasting (Journal)
Publication peer-review

ISF'08, the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ISF'08, the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

DMIN'08, the 2008 International Conference on Data Mining
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Model Specification with Neural Networks and Support Vector Regression – a Meta Experiment
Invited talk

Neurocomputing (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Journal of the Operational Research Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Computers and Operations Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Decision Support Systems (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Computational Management Science (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN) (Journal)
Editorial activity

European Journal of Operational Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Soft Computing (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) (Journal)
Editorial activity

2009 German OR Society PhD Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

"Prof. Herbert Jacob Award" of the University of Hamburg
Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing
  • STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training