CALL FOR PAPERS

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ACM 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth)

https://sites.google.com/site/mobilehealth2015/

Monday, June 22, 2015

Hangzhou, China

Organized in conjunction with

ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

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After the four successful editions of MobileHealth, MobileHealth'2011 in Paris (France), MobileHealth'2012 in Hilton Head Island (USA), MobileHealth'2013 in Bangalore (India), and MobileHealth'2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), the 5th edition will be held in conjunction with the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc'2015) in Hangzhou (China).



The ACM 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare (MobileHealth) provides a forum for the presentation of research and development covering aspects of mobile health monitoring, diagnostics and analytics that are essential for improving the safety and efficiency in health care. The goal of the workshop is to bring together medical device specialists, including researchers, developers, and caregivers, from clinical environments, industry, research laboratories, academia, and government to identify and address challenges facing the design, manufacture, certification, and use of mobile devices and data for health care.



The workshop will include presentations of experimental and theoretical achievements, innovative systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advances in technology related to wireless healthcare networking and systems. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:



Theme I: Mobile Platforms for Healthcare

- Medical device prototypes for diagnosis/prevention

- Wearable and implantable wireless sensors for healthcare

- Energy efficiency in wireless health monitoring

- Usability, user friendliness and reusability

- Disposable and cost effective electronics

- Testbed and validation



Theme II: Network Systems for Healthcare

- Communications infrastructure for mobile healthcare apps

- Pervasive wireless communications in healthcare

- Protocols for wireless healthcare

- Wireless monitoring and ambient assisted applications for healthcare

- Service and device discovery



Theme III: Apps and Analytics for Mobile Healthcare

- Scalability, performance and reliability of mobile healthcare apps

- Data fusion, data mining and context elaboration

- Diagnostic and decision support algorithms

- Standards for mobile healthcare



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted papers must not be published or under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Authors should clearly identify how their considered topics relate to issues on wireless healthcare networking systems. Papers describing an overall working system are particularly of interest. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in the ACM format and submitted as a PDF. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 6 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures, and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Papers should be formatted according to the LaTex class file or the Word document template. Submissions should be made through EDAS. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2015

Acceptance Notification: March 22, 2015

Camera ready Version: April 5, 2015



WORKSHOP WEBSITE

For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/mobilehealth2015/



GENERAL CHAIRS

Gustavo Marfia, University of Bologna, Italy

Emmanuel Baccelli, INRIA, Paris, France

Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University, USA

Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA



STEERING COMMITTEE

Saadi Boudjit, University of Paris 13, France

Philippe JACQUET, Bell Labs Alcatel Lucent, France

Anis Laouiti, Telecom Sud Paris, France

Paul Muhlethaler, INRIA, France

Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA Wireless Health Institute, USA



PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

JeongGil Ko, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

Ming-Chun (John) Huang, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Wenyao Xu, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY), USA

Armir Bujari, University of Padua, Italy





WEB CHAIR

Yuchao Ma, Washington State University, USA



TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

Gang Zhou, College of William & Mary, USA

Emmanuel Agu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Ayan Banerjee, Arizona State University, USA

Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Harvard Medical School

Bobak Mortazavi, Yale Medical School, USA

Navid Amini, UCLA Stein Eye Institute, USA

Mohammad Pourhomayoun, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Craig A. Shue, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Omid Dehzangi, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

... More members to be added ...