Honorary Chair
Shigeru Yamada
Tottori University, Japan
Conference Chair
  Hoang Pham
Rutgers University, USA
Program Chairs
  Yi-Kuei Lin
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  Feng-Bin Sun
Tesla Motors, USA
  Yoshinobu Tamura
Yamaguchi University, Japan
  Xufeng Zhao
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

International Program Committee
Prof. M. Z. Anis (India)
Prof. Mahmoud Boushaba (Algeria)
Prof. Antonio Casimiro Caputo (Italy)
Prof. Philippe Castagliola (France)
Prof. Antonella Certa (Italy)
Prof. In Hong Chang (Korea)
Prof. Ping-Chen Chang (Taiwan)
Prof. Chung-Ho Chen (Taiwan)
Prof. Kuen-Suan Chen (Taiwan)
Prof. Shin-Guang Chen (Taiwan)
Prof. Kuan-Jung Chung (Taiwan)
Prof. Maxim Finkelstein (South Africa)
Prof. Lance Fiondella (USA)
Prof. Kehan Gao (USA)
Prof. Feng Geng (UK)
Prof. Antoine Grall (France)
Prof. Xuefei Guan (China)
Prof. Cheng-Fu Huang (Taiwan)
Prof. Shinji Inoue (Japan)
Dr. Mingxiao Jiang (USA)
Prof. Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar (USA)
Prof. Mitsuhiro Kimura (Japan)
Prof. Debasis Kundu (India)
Prof. Tobias Leopold (Germany)
Prof. Anatoly Lisnianski (Israel)
Prof. Yu Liu (China)
Prof. Satoshi Mizutani (Japan)
Prof. N. V. R. Naidu (India)
Dr. Kazuhira Okumoto (USA)
Prof. Dong H. Park (Korea)
Prof. Minjae Park (Korea)
Dr. Alexander Parkhomovsky (USA)
Prof. Alessandro Persona (Italy)
Prof. Florin Popentiu Vladicescu (Romania)
Prof. Gordon J. Savage (Canada)
Prof. Shey-Huei Sheu (Taiwan)
Prof. Kazuyuki Suzuki (Japan)
Prof. Yoshinobu Tamura (Japan)
Prof. Loon-Ching Tang (Singapore)
Prof. Zhigang Tian (Canada)
Prof. Tzong-Ru Tsai (Taiwan)
Prof. Fugee Tsung (Hong Kong)
Prof. Nikola Vujanovic (Serbia)
Dr. Hongzhou Wang (USA)
Prof. Eric T. T. Wong (Hong Kong)
Prof. Liyang Xie (China)
Prof. Min Xie (Hong Kong)
Prof. Ruey Huei Yeh (Taiwan)
Prof. Songlin Zheng (China)
Prof. Mengmeng Zhu (USA)
Prof. Ming J. Zuo (Canada)
Calls for Papers / Journals of Interest

  • Annals of Operations Research

  • International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (IJRQSE)

  • Annals of Operations Research - Advanced ML

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    Venue Registration Program Camera-ready
    Paper Submission    		 PowerPoint
    Presentation
    Important Dates  

    Camera-ready Paper Due
      May 15, 2026

    Speaker Registration Deadline
      May 15, 2026

     

    Organizers and Sponsors
     

     The conference is organized and sponsored by

      International Society of Science and Applied Technologies  (ISSAT)

     In cooperation with

        The Korean Reliability Society (KORAS)
        Reliability Engineering Association of Japan (REAJ)
        Reliability Society Japan Join Chapter (IEEE-RSJC)

     
    Keynote Speech
     


    Quality and Reliability of Intelligent Systems – Challenges and Research Issues
      Chair Professor Min Xie

     Min XIE

    Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering
    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Fellow of IEEE and IISE
    Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts
     


    Intelligent systems introduce new quality and reliability challenges. Beyond the traditional quality and reliability problems, we must also address additional concerns such as data quality, learning-algorithm performance, explainability, scalability, etc. For AI-assisted systems, socio-technical factors, human–AI interaction, organizational processes, and regulatory constraints add further complexity to system modelling and analysis. Tackling these issues calls for a systems-level strategy, although research can still focus on specific problems, for example, software reliability, sensor reliability and degradation modelling. This talk will discuss some of these challenges with reference to the reliability of intelligent manufacturing systems, autonomous vehicles, and related domains.

       

    Brief bio:

    Min Xie has been a Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering at City University of Hong Kong since 2011. He entered USTC in China in 1978, and went to Sweden in 1979 to complete his undergraduate studies at the Royal Institute of Technology. He later earned his PhD in Quality Technology from Linkoping University in 1987. He was with the National Univ of Singapore from 1991 until 2011. Professor Xie has conducted extensive research in reliability, quality control, and systems engineering and has published over 400 journal papers and 10 books. Prof Xie has served as editor/editorial board members of over 15 refereed journals. He has mentored about 80 PhD students who now excel in industry and academia across continents. Prof Xie is a fellow of IEEE, and also elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He currently chairs the Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Systems Council. He is also a Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025.

     
    About the Conference
     

    ISSAT RQD conference is a major international conference event in the fields of reliability, risk assessment, quality in designs and statistics. For more than a quarter of a century, ISSAT RQD conference has brought together internationally renowned scholars, professors and researchers as well as scientists, engineers, practitioners, professionals and students worldwide to share, discuss and advance their research findings. The presented papers as well as keynote addresses were of high quality. ISSAT RQD conference has been greatly beneficial to its participants for their research and a starting place for many new collaborative works.

    ISSAT RQD 2026 will be held both in person and virtually on August 5-7, 2026 in Atlanta, the bustling capital of Georgia, USA.

     
    Topics of Interest
     
    • Big Data Modeling and Prediction
    • Cloud Computing
    • Concurrent Engineering and Design
    • Data Collection and Analysis
    • Data Computing
    • Data Mining and Analytics
    • Deep Learning
    • Design Issues in Manufacturing
    • Engineering Design Optimization
    • Experimental Design for Quality Control
    • Fault Tolerance
    • General Machine Learning
    • Human Factors and Reliability
    • Life Testing
    • Machine Learning Methods and Algorithms
    • Maintainability and Availability
    • Methodologies for Quality Control
    • Modeling Analysis and Simulation
    • Network Reliability
    • Optimization
    • Parallel and Distributed Computing
    • Performance Analysis
    • Process Control and Management
    • Quality Assurance and Cost Issues
    • Quality Engineering
    • Quality Planning and Measurements
    • Reliability
    • Reliability Modeling and Testing
    • Reliability of Intelligent Environments
    • Risk Assessment Modeling
    • Robust Design
    • Safety-Critical and High Assurance Systems
    • Security Analytics
    • Service Sciences
    • Software and Algorithms
    • Software Reliability and Testing
    • Statistical Approaches in Reliability
    • Survival Data Analysis
    • Total Quality Management Techniques
    • Industrial reliability case studies in applications including service robotics, model technology, transportation, energy, manufacturing, and aerospace.

    Conference Registration
     

    Registration information will be available in April 2026.
    Citation Index
     

    ISSAT RQD Conference Proceedings from year 2005 and onward are and will be indexed in Elsevier Scopus.

    ISSAT RQD Conference Proceedings from year 2002 - 2016 are covered in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)

    Conference Proceedings will be submitted for indexing in Google Scholar.

     
    Best Paper Awards
     

    Two outstanding papers presented at the conference will be chosen for the ISSAT Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards. 

    Student must be first author and presenter at the conference to quality.

     
    Contact:  rqd.conferences@gmail.com