New Advances and Applications in Statistical Quality Control

Dear Colleagues,

Statistical quality control (SQC) consists of methods that probably belong to the set of statistical tools which are the most frequently used in practice. For many years, the main aim of research in this area was to propose simple and practical tools, applicable in many areas by users having limited statistical knowledge. Therefore, the proposed procedures have been obtained using many simplifying assumptions that have limited the area of their possible applications.  In recent years, methods of SQC have been implemented in new areas of applications, such as banking and health services. In these new areas, many simplifying assumptions of classical SQC are no longer valid. Therefore, new methods have recently been proposed which rely on advanced methods of mathematical statistics, data mining (including information symmetry), multivariate symmetry and asymmetry, and intelligent computation methods. For this planned Special Issue of Symmetry, we are inviting papers that demonstrate original applications of modern statistical and computational methods in SQC. In particular, we invite papers on the applications of SQC for the analysis of streams of correlated and multivariate data, papers on the applications of SQC for the analysis of functional data (profiles), papers on the applications of SQC for the analysis of streams of imprecisely perceived data (e.g., linguistic data), and papers on intelligent selection (e.g., cost-optimal) of the parameters describing SQC procedures.

Prof. Dr. Olgierd Hryniewicz
Dr. Fadel Megahed
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Symmetry is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.