Preface

Abstract

Selected Papers from the FISC Conference at Kettering University
June 24–28, 2014, Michigan, USA

This special issue of the Serdica Journal of Computing (FISC, June 24–28,
2014 Proceedings) contains part of the presented and refereed articles discussed at
the Flint International Conference on Statistics (FISC), held at Kettering University in Flint,
Michigan, in June 24–28, 2014. This International event was really unique for Kettering
and for the institutions in this city. More than 40 participants gathered at FISC.
There were participants from Sweden, France, Germany, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Italy,
United Kingdom, Spain, South Africa, Canada, Cyprus, Barbados, Georgia, Moldova, USA.
The title of the conference “Flint, One City, One Year Under Variability” was challenging.
It serves as a hint that this conference is on statistical methods and studies of historical data.
We saw many challenging problems in studies on data sets containing multiple parallel series of
historical data on various things in the areas of public life, industrial and service development.