[Iefac.list] INFORMS 2021 QSR Best Student Paper Award - Call for Papers

[Ran Jin]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*INFORMS 2021 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 at the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The winner will be
announced at the QSR business meeting later at the conference. All
finalists will receive an award certificate. The winner will also receive a
plaque of recognition. 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).
Specifically, papers will be assessed in six aspects: originality of ideas,
depth of study, thoroughness of literature review, importance of problem,
expected impact on future research, and potential impact on engineering or
business practice.



*Eligibility Requirements*:

·         The award nominee *must be a student member of the QSR Section*.

·         The submitted paper for the competition can be in any status
(e.g., submitted or published elsewhere).

·         Paper topics should fit the QSR themes.

·         The student must be the first author. *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. *

·         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 presenting the paper at a
special session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting (the session schedule will be
announced later).

·         Finalists may not be announced until other sessions are already
organized. Thus, papers considered for this competition could be
simultaneously submitted to other sessions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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 and once in their previously
scheduled session.

·         QSR Section does NOT own the copyright of the paper.



*Application Process: *The paper should be up to 6 pages, single-spaced,
and 10 point-size font in PDF format. Margins should be 1 inch or more. The
paper should begin with a 50-word abstract. Please submit *a blinded and an
unblinded*
*version*. The submitted paper must follow the format or will be returned
without review. Please also complete and submit *the attached submission
form *including four suggested reviewers and the signed affirmation of the
advisor.



To enter the contest, please submit via email *the two versions of the
paper *and *the completed submission form *to contest organizers, Dr.
Bianca Maria Colosimo (biancamaria.colosimo at polimi.it, Chair), Dr. Tapas
Das (das at usf.edu), Dr. Qiang Huang (qiang.huang at usc.edu), and Dr. Ran Jin (
jran5 at vt.edu), with the email subject as “QSR Best Student Paper
Competition” by the designated
submission deadline below. Late or incomplete submissions will NOT be
eligible for the contest. One can visit the QSR website
http://connect.informs.org/qsr/home for updates regarding the contest.



*Timeline: *

Paper submission deadline (Submitter’s local time): July 1, 2021

Decision notifications to authors: September 15, 2021



*Contest Organizers:*

Dr. Bianca Maria Colosimo, Politechnco Milano, Chair

Dr. Tapas Das, University of South Florida

Dr. Qiang Huang, University of Southern California
Dr. Ran Jin, Virginia Tech


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Ran Jin, Ph.D.

Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech

Tel: 540-231-2262
https://ise.vt.edu/ran-jin

http://www.ise.vt.edu/people/faculty/jin.html
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