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CALL FOR PAPERS BigData4Healthcare, deadline: November 29.

1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Healthcare and Well-being 2016

January 18, 2016, Hong Kong, China
http://sigai.or.kr/workshop/bigcomp/2016/big-data-for-healthcare/

In conjunction with
the 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) 2016
http://conf2016.bigcomputing.org/main/

Purpose and Scope

Healthcare and well-being is an important area of research in many countries as one of the emerging application domains for both big data and smart computing. This workshop aims to create opportunities to share on-going works and enhance collaboration among healthcare researchers related to big data or data science, and to foster new innovations of big data and smart computing in the areas of mobile healthcare, smart homes, digital cities, innovations in healthcare and sensing devices, and other related areas.

Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the area of big data analytics for healthcare and well-being. The topics include but are not limited to:

- Smart health and big data
- Data mining, graph mining and data science for healthcare
- Big data analytics and social media for healthcare
- Smart devices and hardware for healthcare
- Smart location-based services for healthcare
- Models and tools for smart computing in healthcare
- Innovations in healthcare and sensing devices
- Security and privacy for big data in healthcare
- Cloud and grid computing for healthcare
- Standards for big data in healthcare

PAPER SUBMISSION

Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers, up to 8 pages each, in the IEEE paper template. Papers must be formatted in PDF according to the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings and submitted through EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org/. The direct link for paper submission is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdata4healthcare

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due: November 29, 2015 (23:59, HKT)
Notification of Acceptance: December 6, 2015
Camera ready Papers: December 13, 2015
Workshop: January 18, 2016

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:
Youssef Iraqi, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
Ho-Jin Choi, School of Computing, KAIST, Korea
Min Song, Dept. of Library & Information, Yonsei University, Korea

TPC Members:
Ae Ran Kim, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Korea
Amjad Gawanmeh, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
Byeong-Soo Jeong, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Changseok Bae, SW.Content Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea
Ahsan Khandoker, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
Hani Saleh, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
Gwan-Su Yi, Dept. of Bio & Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea
Harish Bhaskar, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
Hyeoun-Ae Park, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Korea
Kyuchang Kang, SW.Content Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea
Tae-Min Song, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea
Yong-Ik Yoon, Dept. of Multimedia Science, SookMyung Women’s University, Korea
Yu-Chae Jung, Dept. of Multimedia Science, SookMyung Women’s University, Korea
Nan Xiang, Dept. of Computer Science, Chongqing University of Technology, China
Lingyun Zhu, Dept. of Internet of Things, Chongqing University of Technology, China
Yong Wang, Dept. of Network Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, China