[Iefac.list] Call for Papers for INFORMS 2015 QSR Best Student Paper Award

[Eunshin Byon]

CALL FOR PAPERS

for 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.



Assistant Professor

Industrial and Operations Engineering Department

University of Michigan

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