Call for Papers

5th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (INFORMS DM-HI 2010)
November 6, 2010, Austin, TX
http://meetings2.informs.org/austin2010/dm-si.html

The Data Mining (DM), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Health Applications (HA) Subdivisions of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) are jointly organizing the Fifth Pre-conference Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (INFORMS DM-HI 2010) on November 6, 2010 at Austin, TX, in conjunction with the 2010 INFORMS Annual Conference. The theme of the workshop centers around health informatics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations of Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence
AI/DM in Operations Research and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Statistical Learning Algorithms
Bioinformatics
Pattern Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Visualization
Healthcare DM and Knowledge Discovery
Healthcare Logistics
Healthcare Simulations
Patient Flow Modeling
Medical Imaging
Medical Decision Making
Biosurveillance, Healthcare, and Public Health Surveillance
Disease Modeling and Prevention
Disease Spread and Transmission Simulations
Multi-agent Systems
Risk Management
Global Health
Case Studies

On behalf of the INFORMS DM-HI 2010 Organizing Committee, we would like to invite you to submit an abstract, not exceeding 200 words, for review. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to give a presentation at the Workshop and submit a short paper, not exceeding 6 pages, for the Workshop Proceedings, to be published on a CD. Authors are encouraged to submit a longer, high quality version of their workshop papers to the international journal Annals of Operations Research, special issue on "Data Mining and Informatics." Please see the Call for Papers on the journal website: www.springer.com/journal/10479.

Time line:
May 15: 200-word abstracts due
June 15: Acceptance decisions sent out
September 30: Proceedings papers due
November 6: Workshop

Submit abstracts and papers online at: http://meetings2.informs.org/Austin2010/dm-si.html

For inquiries, please contact Program co-Chairs:
Durai Sundaramoorthi (Missouri Western State University): dsundaramoorthi@missouriwestern.edu
Mariel S. Lavieri (University of Michigan): lavieri@umich.edu
Huimin (Min) Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): hzhao@uwm.edu

Management Committee:
Kwok-Leung Tsui (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Tory Chen (University of Texas at Arlington)
George Runger (Arizona State University)
Tom Au (AT&T Labs)

Review Committee:
Margret Bjarnadottir (Stanford University)
Nick Street (University of Iowa)
Nan Liu (Columbia University)
Elizabeth Cudney (Missouri University of Science & Technology)
Benjamin Armbruster (Northwestern University)
Bin Zhu (Boston University)
Raj Sharman (University of Buffalo)
Alan Wang (Virginia Tech.)
Kalyan Pasupathy (University of Missouri)