[Iefac.list] [QSR-section] CALL FOR PAPERS - INFORMS 2015 QSR Best Student Paper Award

[Eunshin Byon]

*CALL FOR PAPERS *

INFORMS 2015 QSR Best Student Paper Award



*The Quality Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Section of INFORMS announces
the Best Student Paper Award to recognize excellence among its student
members. The award program brings prestige to the QSR Section as well as to
the recipients honored.*

Four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award will be selected to
make presentations on *Monday, November 2nd, 2015* at the INFORMS Annual
Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The winner will be announced at the
QSR business meeting later at the conference.  All finalists will receive
an award certificate and 3 years free QSR membership. The winner will also
receive a plaque. The Best Student Paper Award is to be presented annually
at the QSR Section meeting during the INFORMS annual meeting. All
finalists’ papers will be posted on the QSR Section webpage.

The broad criteria for selecting the recipient of the QSR Best Student
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 (importance of the problem and its impact
on engineering or business practice).

Eligibility Requirements and Application Process:

·         Award nominees *must be a student member of the QSR Section*.

·         Paper topic must fit the QSR themes.

·         The student must be the first author. *Moreover, a formal, signed
statement by the student's advisor should be submitted along with the paper
affirming that the majority of the original results presented in the paper
are due to the student rather than the advisor or other collaborators
involved in the work*.

·         The paper must be completed during the first author’s
undergraduate or graduate studies.

·         Previous finalists who wish to compete again should submit an
entirely different paper. However, past winners are not eligible for the
competition.

·         The student must be committed to present the paper at a special
session on either Sunday (the first day), or Monday (the second day) of the
annual INFORMS conference.

·         Finalists may not be announced until other INFORMS sessions are
already organized. Thus, papers considered for this competition *MAY *be
simultaneously submitted to other sessions at the INFORMS conference. If a
finalist is scheduled to present in another session, then they will present
the paper twice: once in the QSR Best Student Paper Competition session on
Monday/Sunday and once in their previously scheduled session.

·         QSR Section does NOT own copyrights of the paper. However, the
paper must be available to the QSR Section to be posted on their web page.

·         Submitted Paper Format: The paper should be 4-6 pages,
single-spaced, with two columns in 10 point Times Roman or Times New Roman
typeface. Margins should be 1 inch or more. Papers should begin with a 50
word abstract. Please submit *a blinded as well as an unblinded version*.
The submitted paper must follow the format or will be returned without
review. A file (in the MS Word or PDF format) should be sent by email to
the contest coordinator before the designated deadline. Papers received
after the deadline will not be reviewed for competition.

To enter, submit via email a paper (4-6 pages and in MS WORD or PDF format)
on a quality, statistics, or reliability topic to the 2015
contest coordinator, Dr. Eunshin Byon ebyon at umich.edu by* June 15th, 2015*
(PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE).  Late submissions will be ineligible for the
contest.

All submitted papers will be reviewed and ranked by external referees and
four finalists will be selected and announced on *September 1st, 2015*. *Please
visit the QSR website at:* http://qsr.section.informs.org/ for updates and
best student papers in the past few years.



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Eunshin Byon



Assistant Professor

Industrial and Operations Engineering Department

University of Michigan

Website: http://umich.edu/~ebyon
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