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📢 Call for Papers – INFORMS QSR Best Paper Competition 2026 The INFORMS Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Section invites submissions for the 2026 QSR Best Paper Competition, to be held at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA (November 1–4, 2026). We welcome original research contributions spanning quality, reliability, statistics, data science, and intelligent systems, with applications in manufacturing, healthcare, services, and beyond. 🔹 Topics include: • Quality & Reliability Analytics • Data Fusion & Multimodal Learning • Complex Systems Modeling, Optimization & Control • Predictive Maintenance & Reliability Engineering • Manufacturing Informatics & Smart Systems • Federated & Distributed Learning • Image, Functional, and Network Data Analysis • IoT-enabled Analytics and many more. 🏆 Benefits: • Present in a refereed QSR session at INFORMS 2026 • Compete for the QSR Best Paper Award • Receive recognition from the QSR community • Opportunity for fast-track consideration at the INFORMS Journal on Data Science (IJDS) 📄 Submission Requirements: • Unpublished work • 4–6 pages (excluding references) • Blind and non-blind versions required 📅 Important Dates: • Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 • Notification: September 15, 2026 • Conference Presentation: November 1–4, 2026 We especially encourage submissions from students, early-career researchers, and practitioners working at the intersection of data science, quality, reliability, and operations research. For details, please visit the INFORMS Annual Meeting website or contact the QSR Refereed Session Co-Chairs: Yinan Wang ([email protected]), Xiaochen Xian ([email protected]), and Shancong Mou ([email protected]). #INFORMS #OperationsResearch #DataScience #QualityEngineering #ReliabilityEngineering #ManufacturingAI #MachineLearning #IndustrialAI #HealthcareAnalytics #ResearchOpportunity