Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Teaching session on various types of algorithms that can be used, their applications and their pros and cons.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting looks at the construction of scenarios in futures studies. It discusses the four kinds of scenarios - the Demonstartion Scenario, the Driving Force Scenario, the System Change Scenario and the Slice-Of-Time Scenario. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Presenters discuss a method of mortality projection on various scenarios about terrorism that have been written by futurists given the events of Sept. 11. Attendees learn to use a futurism technique scenarios to address actuarial problems.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. A noted expert with a degree from the graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake discusses long-term forecasting and planning, the future of information technology and technology transfer, strategic planning and the development of future scenarios.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting focuses on the issues involved in building a scenario generator. It covers the data set used to develop and calibrate the generator as well as a discussion of different approaches and their features. Implementation is addressed along with potential pitfalls.