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We cordially invite your students to participate in the 2024 QCRE Student Paper Competition. <span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The submission deadline
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This year, the winner will be selected prior to the conference based on the double-blind review process. All finalists
will be invited to present at the competition session at the 2024 IISE conference. All finalist papers are eligible for INFORMS journal on Data Science (IJDS) recommendation and will be announced in March 2024.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Competition Coordinators<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (</span><a href="mailto:shf006@shsu.edu" id="OWA4ff695ac-6e47-2799-0c84-caf171405be9" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">shf006@shsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">),
Sam Houston State University<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Dan Li (</span><a href="mailto:dli4@clemson.edu" id="OWA7875e2ae-7df6-3928-f588-e11e4a2ab00a" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">dli4@clemson.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">),
Clemson University<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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