Institute for Comparative Event Chronology

Research centre for sequential analysis and temporal planning

The Institute for Comparative Event Chronology (ICEC) is an independent research body based in Brussels, dedicated to the study of temporal relations between events, their classification and the analysis of the conditions under which they occur.

Its work focuses mainly on periodicity, chronological concordances, recurrence intervals and methods of sequential forecasting.

The Institute's approach rests on one fundamental principle: the date of an event is a piece of information distinct from its nature.

Two apparently unrelated events may thus share temporal characteristics, while events of the same nature may belong to entirely different sequences.

Our missions

The Institute pursues three objectives:

• To develop methods for comparing independent series of events.
• To study the properties of the intervals separating observed occurrences.
• To develop planning models applicable to events whose nature or conditions of realisation remain undetermined.

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