1. Cause-Specific Mortality Forecasting. A Constrained Penalized Regression Model • Carlo Giovanni Camarda , Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Mari´a Durbán, Department of Statistics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

2. Competing Risks Models with Two Time Scales • Angela Carollo , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Hein Putter, Leiden University Medical Center; Paul Eilers, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam; Jutta Gampe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

3. Functional Concurrent Regression with Compositional Covariates and Its Application to the Time-Varying Effect of Causes of Death on Human Longevity • Emanuele Giovanni Depaoli, University of Padova - Department of Statistical Sciences; Marco Stefanucci , University of Rome Tor Vergata; Stefano Mazzuco, University of Padova.

4. Smoothing trends and seasonality in short-term mortality forecasting • Ainhoa Elena Leger , Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark; Silvia Rizzi, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark; Ugofilippo Basellini, Max Planck Institute for demographic Research.