Current Projects.  

• Estimation of packet transfer delay in VoIP networks for buffer allocation.
• The application of wavelet transfer models to time series forecasting.
• Forecasting vehicular traffic. 
• Short term electricity demand forecasting.
• The application of heteroskedastistic models to financial time series forecasts. 

Working papers  

• On the influence of weather forecast errors in load forecasting models (submitted to IEEE trans. on power systems) (pdf pdf 794Kb)
• An application of neural networks to adaptive playout delay in VoIP (pdf pdf 222Kb)
• Use of Weather Inputs in Traffic Volume Forecasting (pdf 222Kb).
• Forecasting the index of industrial production using electricity demand as a lead variable. (in preparation)
• On the use of Gaussian mixture of means models for mutual information estimation in wavelet transfer models. (in preparation)

Members

             Dr. Damien Fay, Department of Mathematics, NUI, Galway.

                                     Dr. Liam Kilmartin, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, NUI, Galway.

            Dr. Srinivas Raghavendra, Department of Economics, NUI, Galway.

            Ms. Ying Zhang, Department of Mathematics, NUI, Galway.            

            James Davey, Department of Mathematics, NUI, Galway.

            Aoife Healy, Department of Mathematics, NUI, Galway.

            Brian O'Connell, Department of Mathematics, NUI, Galway.

Collaborators.

Prof. John Ringwood, School of Electronic Engineering, NUI, Maynooth.

Dr. Liam Kilmartin, Department of Electronic Engineering, NUI, Galway.

Dr. Tarek Khadir, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique Université Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algérie.

Interesting Links.

European central bank statistical warehouse.

Deutsche Bundesbank

World Bank statistics page.

Centre for Transport Research, Trinity College, Dublin.

A guide to wavelets for economists.

The International Journal of Forecasting.