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Final CALL FOR PAPERS

In conjunction with AIME 2015

4th International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Medicine
--- AI-AM / NetMed 2015 ---

Pavia - June 20, 2015
http://airtlab.dii.univpm.it/netmed2015
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AIM and SCOPE
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The medical systems that the Governments operate to fulfil the healthcare requirements of the Society are always looking to offer higher quality at the lowest cost. It seems that the current systems are unsustainable as the rate of senior society members to the active employees is increasing and the curve of required medicine cost for the last 10 years of people's life is more than the corresponding medical cost used for the rest of their life. The question is then whether we can "flatter" or smoother the lifetime cost curve for the provided healthcare services.

This is a big challenge for AI as well as the always evolving digital technology. How can we be proactive rather than post-active in order to early detect, make diseases prognosis and give the right assistive medical support on time? Answer to this question can offer the exploitation of AI methods in combination with the sensor networks technology and the new technology devices like smart phones, tablets, digital TVs, web cameras and all the smart gadgets that appear in the market.

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, and discuss the current state of the art and the future improvements 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:

* Ubiquitous real-time assistive healthcare
* Ambient assisted living
* Wearable and/or unobtrusive smart healthcare systems
* Multi-Agent architectures for patient monitoring and early diagnosis
* Events recognition from medical data
* Fusion and interpretation of multimodal medical data and events
* Medical ontology modelling and evolution
* Semantically diagnosis modelling
* Reasoning with the uncertainty of medical data/knowledge
* Mining on medical data/knowledge
* Patient centric and evidence based decision support systems
* Serious games for disease diagnosis
* Intelligent visualisation of medical data
* Healthcare tele-robots services

Submissions reporting on case studies in a medical context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient depth.

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Participants are invited to submit papers from 5 up to 10 pages in length, addressing the topics of the workshop. Papers can be submitted as:
- full paper, reporting mature research result with an adequate evaluation
- position paper, reporting preliminary result or early stage research
- tool/application report.

Papers must be edited 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=aiamnetmed2015)

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 two PC members, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. If a paper is accepted, at least one author must register for the workshop and
present the paper at the workshop in person.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume of CEUR-WS. The best papers will be also invited to submit an extended and revised version for a special issue of a scientific journal that will be announced. Further information about paper submission will be made available at AI-AM / NetMed-2015 web page.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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- Paper Submission: May 8, 2015
- Final Notification: May 25, 2015
- Camera Ready Due: June 5, 2015
- Workshop: June 20, 2015

PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Constantine D. Spyropoulos -- NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Aldo Franco Dragoni -- Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, EWI – RMT, University of Twente, Netherlands
Bruno Bouchard, Universite du Quebec, Canada
Eric Campo, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Gabriella Cortellessa, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), CNR, Italy
Michel Dojat, Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), France
Werner Horn, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, CERTH, Greece
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ilias Maglogianis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Domenico Massimo Pisanelli, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), CNR, Italy
Yuval Schahar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Paolo Sernani, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Dr. Constantine D. Spyropoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Prof. Aldo Franco Dragoni, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Dr. Theo Yianakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Dr. Paolo Sernani, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Dr. Evangelos Spyrou,NCSR Demokritos, Greece