ECAI 2012 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and NetMedicine

[Aldo Franco Dragoni]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2012

In conjunction with ECAI 2012

1st International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and NetMedicine
--- NetMed 2012 ---

Montpellier, France - August 27, 2012
http://netmed2012.dii.univpm.it
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AIM and SCOPE
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Medical telereporting and second-opinion over the Internet are nowadays
cost-effective and widely adopted practices.
Physicians and general practitioners make daily use of tele-consultation
over the WEB, VOIP, chat and video-conferencing.
Social networking favors the constitution of large communities of members
sharing similar medical interest, so that TeleMedicine is rapidly turning
into what we call "NetMedicine", which simply denotes every Health-related
activity hich is carried on through the Internet.
Since its inception and along all its history, Artificial Intelligence
served the Medicine, under both its souls, the logicistic and the
connessionistic ones.
But in the current digitally networked and hyperlinked e-Health scenario,
Artificial Intelligence has to play also new important roles.
Today we urge intelligent software to semantically interpret and filter
diagnostic data, automatically classify and convey medical information,
virtualize nurses and hospital lanes to reduce the costs of healthcare,
etc.
This one-day workshop aims at bringing together scholars and practitioners
active in Artificial Intelligence driven Health Informatics, to present
and discuss their research, share their knowledge and experiences, define
key research challenges and explore possible international collaborations
to advance the intelligent practice of Medicine over the Internet.


RELEVANT TOPICS
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Participants are invited to submit papers on all research and application
aspects of Artificial Intelligence driven e-Health, including, but not
limited to:

* Tele-Health and Telemonitoring over the Internet
- Collaborative care and communication
- Intelligent devices and instruments
* Ontology modeling and reasoning in Health Information Engineering and
Systems
- SNOMED CT
* Patient care, monitoring and diagnosis
- AI-based clinical decision making
- Clinical Evidence-Based decision support systems
* Architectures of Electronic Health Records
* AI in medical education
* Medical knowledge engineering
- Medical data mining
* Modelling and simulation
* Implementation and case studies
* Intelligent Visualization in Medicine
* Intelligent Medical Information Systems
- Intelligent health records
* Automated Reasoning and Metareasoning in Medicine
* Philosophical, Ethical, and Social issues of AI in Medicine
* Extending quality healthcare to rural communities
* Health Informatics in the developing world

A more detailed description can be found on the web site.


INVITED SPEAKERS
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We are pleased to announce that Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, editor-in-chief of
"Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", will open the workshop with an
invited talk.


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Participants are invited to submit: (1) a short position or demonstration
paper of 5 pages in length or (2) a full-length technical paper of up to
10 pages in length, both addressing the topics of the workshop. Both must
be edited in LaTeX using the LNCS format:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

and be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netmed2012

Submissions reporting on case studies in a medical context are strongly
invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in
sufficient depth.
Papers will be reviewed by at least three PC members, and accepted papers
will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Further information about paper submission will be made available at
NetMed 2012 web page.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Paper Submission: May 28, 2012
- Final Notification: June 28, 2012
- Final Version Due: July 16, 2012
- Workshop: August 27, 2012


PROCEEDINGS
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Both accepted technical and short position/demonstration papers will be
published in a post proceedings volume in the LNAI series by
Springer-Verlag (Pending Approval). The publisher will arrange the
indexing of the proceedings in all major indexing services.


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Aldo Franco Dragoni -- Universit� Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Roberto Posenato -- Universit� degli Studi di Verona, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Paolo Giorgini -- Universit� di Trento, Italy
Francesco Sicurello -- Universit� di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Lucio Tommaso De Paolis -- Universit� del Salento, Italy
Femida Gwadry-Sridhar -- University of Western Ontario, Canada
Roque Mar�n Morales -- University of Murcia, Spain
Niels Peek -- University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Catherine Garbay -- French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Basilio Sierra -- University of the Basque Country, Spain
Hameedullah Kazi -- Isra University, Hyderabad, Pakistan
Yuval Shahar -- Ben Gurion University, Israel
Allan Tucker -- Brunel University, UK
Paola Mello -- Universit� di Bologna, UK
Carolyn McGregor -- Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics
Paolo Terenziani -- Universit� di Torino, Italy
Steve Rees -- Aalborg University, Denmark.
Evelina Lamma -- Universit� di Ferrara, Italy
Zhiming Liu -- Unitenations University, Macao
Paul de Clercq -- University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Peter Lucas -- Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Xiaohui Liu -- Brunel University, UK
Rainer Schmidt -- Universit�t Rostock, Germany
Domenico Massimo Pisanelli -- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
John Fox -- Oxford University, UK
Henrik Eriksson -- Link�ping University, Sweden
Siriwan Suebnukarn -- Thammasat University, Thailand
Constantine D. Spyropoulos -- NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Werner Horn -- Medical University of Vienna, Austria


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Andrea Claudi -- Universit� Politecnica delle Marche, Italy





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Prof. Aldo Franco Dragoni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universit� Politecnica delle Marche

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