Paper submission

Contributions in English containing original and unpublished work are encouraged to be submitted. The full paper should be according to the guidelines available in the full paper template. The submission should be through the Easychair plataform. Authors will have also the chance to submit a short paper (work in progress; no template is needed). However, only full papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
All the presented full papers will be published in the ICQEM18 Proceedings Book – at least one author should be registered in the conference. The scientific committee will select high quality papers and invite the authors to contribute for a special issue that will be published by the International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management (SCImago indexed). The ICQEM18 Proceedings Book will be submitted to Thomson Reuters (ISI) Proceedings and/or Scopus for indexing.

Conference Awards

Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award regulation.

Conference language

Official language of the conference is English.

Important dates

Extended full papers and short papers submission deadline: February 18, 2018
Reviewers feedback to the authors: April 6, 2018
Full papers – revised version, submission deadline: April 30, 2018
Early registration deadline: May 31, 2018
ICQEM18: July 11-13, 2018

Call for Papers

The Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Quality Engineering and Management cordially invite you to submit a paper. All the papers, both theoretic and practical applications, are welcome. Relevant topics include, but not limited to:
- Business Excellence Models
- Customer Satisfaction
- Management Systems
- Operational Excellence
- Organizational Improvement
- Quality Engineering
- Quality Management and Innovation
- Quality Management in different activity sectors (healthcare, higher education, services, …)
- Quality Tools
- Reliability & Maintenance
- Six Sigma / Lean-Six Sigma
- Standards
- Supply Chain Quality Management
- Taguchi Methods / Design of Experiments
- The Future of Quality and Organizational Excellence
- Total Quality Management