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The organizing committee for the 2023 INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (ICQSR) Best Paper Award Competition is excited to announce the finalists (in no particular order):<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></p>
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1. <i class="ContentPasted0">Robust Condition-Based Production and Maintenance Planning for Degradation Management</i>, by
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2. <i class="ContentPasted0">Multi-output Extreme Spatial Model for Complex Production Systems</i>, by
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3. <i class="ContentPasted0">Reliability Modeling for Perception Systems in Autonomous Vehicles: a Recursive Event-Triggering Point Process</i>, by
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4. <i class="ContentPasted0">Federated Generalized Scalar-on-Tensor Regression</i>, by
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We cordially invite you to attend the Best Paper Competition Session at the conference, where the finalists will showcase their work and contend for the award. This event is set for Tuesday, June 6th, from
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; display: inline !important; color: rgb(12, 100, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President,
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