{"id":25,"date":"2023-12-14T09:19:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icqsr24.polimi.it\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-05-14T06:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:38:52","slug":"contributing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.icqsr24.polimi.it\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Contributing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-52b864f0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-asterisk has-xx-large-font-size\">Best Paper Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-4f2ccadb\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b054dbfaf28bd7e20767a365a4ea90c5\">Extended due date: May 24th<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">The 2024 INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR) announces the <strong>Best Paper Award Competition<\/strong> to recognize excellence among the high-quality papers submitted to ICQSR. This award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to the recipients of this honor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ICQSR aims to provide an international forum for exchanging research innovations and advancements that reinforce the scientific essentials \u2013 quality improvement, statistical learning, and reliability assurance \u2013 and embrace emerging practical challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Advancements in process monitoring and control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analytics for smart and advanced manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Systems informatics and control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design and analysis of computer experiments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reliability modeling and maintenance decision-making<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business analytics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data quality assurance and data visualization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quality and reliability analysis in Industry 4.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data analytics in healthcare applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science\/physics informed machine learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prognostics health management for energy systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AI for e-commerce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you to submit a paper for this competition. The primary authors of the selected papers will be invited to present their work in the best paper session at the 2024 ICQSR. All submitted papers and oral presentations will be reviewed and ranked by multiple reviewers. The winner will be announced at the 2024 ICQSR Banquet. The broad criteria for selecting the recipient of the ICQSR Best Paper Award are: (a) Academic significance (originality, depth, and completeness of the work, and its potential impact on future research); (b) Engineering or business relevance (significance of the problem, and its impact on engineering or business practice); and (c) Quality of the written paper and oral presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Eligibility requirements and application process<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At least one of the authors <strong>must be a member of the QSR Section<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.informs.org\/qsr\/join-qsr\">Link<\/a> to join QSR)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The submitted paper should be unpublished work by the submission deadline of the competition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The submitted paper should not have been selected as a winner of past competitions in other conferences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The primary author or one of co-authors must be committed to presenting the paper at a special session of the 2024 ICQSR.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Papers considered for this competition <strong>MAY <\/strong>be simultaneously submitted to other sessions of the ICQSR. If a finalist is scheduled to present in another session, they need to present the paper twice: once in the ICQSR Best Paper session, and once in their previously scheduled session.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ICQSR Section does NOT own the copyright of the paper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Required Format for Submission<\/strong>: Please keep articles as brief as possible. The maximum length is 12 pages. Use 11 point font, 1 inch margins, and single-spacing for the manuscript including references, tables, figures and appendices. The paper must begin with an abstract of at most 150 words. The paper must follow the required format, or it will be returned without review.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The finalists of the best paper award competition will be encouraged to submit to NFORMS Journal on Data Science (IJDS). The editorial board of IJDS will work closely with the subcommittee of the ICQSR Best Paper Competition to shorten the first review cycle<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">How to participate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#f9f9f9\" class=\"has-inline-color has-contrast-color\">To participate in this competition, <strong>a blinded as well as an unblinded version <\/strong>of the paper in MS WORD or PDF format should be emailed to <strong>all Co-chairs<\/strong> of the ICQSR Best Paper Competition, with the email subject line \u201cName+University+2023 ICQSR best paper competition\u201d prior to the deadline of <strong>May 10, 2024<\/strong>. <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This deadline will not be extended. Late submissions will be ineligible for the competition, and not reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Competition Timeline<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3824d5d8150079503261b04cc462a257\"><strong>May 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paper submission deadline<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  Finalists announced<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2024&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Presentation in the ICQSR Best Paper session<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">ICQSR Best Paper Competition subcommittee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ramin Moghaddass, Associate Professor<\/strong> (<em>Chair<\/em>)<br>Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>University of Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:ramin@miami.edu\">ramin@miami.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Co-Chairs:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May Feng, Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Industrial Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Houston<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: qmfeng@uh.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonio Lepore, Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Industrial Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universit\u00e0 di Napoli Federico II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:antonio.lepore@unina.it\">antonio.lepore@unina.it<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alessandra Menafoglio, Associate Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Mathematics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politecnico di Milano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:&nbsp; alessandra.menafoglio@polimi.it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qiong Zhang, Associate Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clemson University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:qiongz@clemson.edu\">qiongz@clemson.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-52b864f0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-asterisk has-xx-large-font-size\">Call for session proposal and abstracts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-4f2ccadb\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">The organization committee invites you to organize technical sessions, such as invited\/contributed sessions, tutorial sessions, and panel discussion sessions, and\/or submit abstracts of technical presentations that fit in the following theme-track matrix:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan=\"2\"><strong>Conference Tracks<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" colspan=\"5\"><strong>ICQSR2024<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Manufacturing<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Energy<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Healthcare<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Human-Machine Systems<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Business analytics<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Quality<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\" colspan=\"5\" rowspan=\"3\"><strong>Session types<\/strong> <br>Distinguished session*, <br>regular-talk\/flash-talk session, <br>panel\/tutorial session<sup>\u2020<\/sup><br><strong>Presentation types<\/strong> <br>Regular talk (30-min)<br>flash talk (8-min)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Reliability<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">* Distinguished researchers and practitioners as speakers, one talk per session with general discussion, program committee review and approval needed;<br><sup>\u2020<\/sup> Program committee approval needed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-52b864f0 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-asterisk has-xx-large-font-size\">Open calls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-4f2ccadb\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">EXTENDED Due date: March 22, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Session proposal submission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/MTswtFFe76sHh3vL9\">Click here to submit a session proposal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Abstract submission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/ZVCBT8kXGzuniXEb9\">Click here to submit your abstract<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-2-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" 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