Due to the high number of requests, the deadline for short paper submission is extended until October 30th, 2021

::: NEW DEADLINES :::

- Short Paper Submission: October 30^th 2021

- Notification to authors (decision is taken, and possible revisions are required): November 22^th 2021

- Resubmission of the revised version: December 10^th 2021

- Early bird registration: December 15^th 2021

Dear Colleague,

on behalf of the organizing committee, it is a pleasure to announce that the 10^th Scientific Meeting of the Statistics for the Evaluation and Quality of Services Group of the Italian Statistical Society SVQS, titled IES 2022 - Innovation and Society 5.0: Statistical and Economic Methodologies for Quality Assessment, will be held on January 27-28, 2022 at the University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli".

IES 2022 is sponsored by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) http://meetings3.sis-statistica.org/index.php/index/index/index/index/, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) https://enbis.org/ and  the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) https://iasc-isi.org/2021/06/18/iasc-news-june-2021/. They will participate in the scientific committee and organize sessions on selected topics, enlarging the list of the areas of interest. Similarly, Statistics and Data Science (SDS) and Enhancement of Public Statistics (VSP), who are other Groups of the Italian Statistical Society, will actively participate to the conference.

IES 2022 - Innovation and Society 5.0: Statistical and Economic Methodologies for Quality Assessment has the scientific finality to promote and coordinate the statistical and economic methodologies for the evaluation of a human-centered society emphasizing how statistical thinking, design and analysis may be of use to a Society 5.0, to foster advanced methodological research supporting the assessment of quality of social services, and to be a platform where the experts of Statistics, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning and related disciplines meet for analysing Big Data.

Contributions based on the development of all innovative statistical methodologies as well as of all interesting applications are welcome. The subject-matter of the contributions cover the following areas (but not limited to):

Sustainability, Health, Wellness, Sport, Tourism, Education, Training and Research, Bank and FinTech, Transportation, Environment, Enterprise, Industry and Finance, E.commerce, Digital Marketing, Labour Market, Public Administration, Justice System.

On Behalf of the Organizing Committee

Rosaria Lombardo