CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES
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Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care"
Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005)
March 13 to 17, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
http://compahec.unex.es/compahec/conferences/compahec/compahec05
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005 (Technical Tracks)
SAC '05:
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For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has
been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer
engineers, software engineers, professionals in the health and biologi
cal sciences, and application developers from around the world to interact and
present their work. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing (SIGAPP). Its proceedings are published by AC
M in both printed form and CD-ROM. They are also available on the web through
ACM Digital Library. More information about SIGAPP and past SACs can be found
at http://www.acm.org/sigapp. For additional information about SA
C 2005, please check the web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005.
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental
or theoretical computing and application development for the technical
sessions.
Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care":
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Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have provided the
tools and the environment to study, analyze, and better understand complex
medical problems. This technological development has enabled resear
chers to provide increasingly advanced services, including Computer Assisted
Radiology, Telemedicine, Robotized Teleoperating Systems, etc.
In recent years, research in Computer Applications applied to Health Care has
dramatically intensified. The Track "Computer Applications in Health Care" in
SAC 2005 aims to provide a platform for researchers to present an
d discuss recent breakthroughs in this area.
Major topics of interest include the following in the context of Health Care.
This is not an exhaustive list:
· Programming methodologies in applications for health care including object
oriented, subject oriented, component oriented, aspect oriented, agent
oriented, genetic and evolutionary programming, fuzzy programming and hyb
rid paradigms.
· Theoretical aspects of computer programming with a clear practical potential
in applying the results to health care.
· Computer applications for medical imaging: Computer applications of medical
image segmentation, Computer applications for 3D reconstruction in medical
imaging, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, etc.
· Web programming and engineering involving health care applications.
· Knowledge recovery in databases, including data mining and methods such as
clustering, classification, Bayesian networks and association rules.
· Computer applications for telemedicine and telecare applications.
Methodologies for e-health, telehealth and knowledge management integration in
intranets and the Internet. Computer applications for teleteaching of heal
th care.
· Artificial Intelligence in health care.
· Decision support systems, including knowledge based systems, belief networks,
statistical models, fuzzy models, evolutionary programming, hybrid systems, and
intelligent agents.
· Evidence-based health care including computer assisted diagnosis and
prognosis, risk analysis, example-based learning, problem-based learning and
case-based reasoning.
· Human-computer interaction including human factors, cognitive modeling,
problem solving strategies, linguistic comprehension, user interface design,
direct manipulation techniques and virtual reality.
· Health care information systems and groupware, including computerized patient
records, survey applications in health care specialties, decision support
systems, clinical information system design architectures and elect
ronic document interchange and computer-supported collaborative work.
· Theoretical or practical ICT applications involving health care.
· Computer applications for medical informatics.
· Any other computer application in health care.
TRACK ORGANIZER AND CHAIR
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Valentin Masero
Computer Science Department
University of Extremadura
Escuela Politecnica
Campus Universitario. Avda. Universidad, s/n
10.071 Caceres (Spain)
e-mail: vmasero @ unex.es
PAPERS
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Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of experimental or
theoretical computing and application development relevant to the themes of the
track.
Submissions fall into the following categories:
· Original and unpublished research work
· Reports of innovative computing applications in the sciences, and engineering
areas of Health Care
· Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains
· Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus areas will blindly review
submissions to this track. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. The a
ccepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC 2005
proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be
considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP Applied Computing Rev
iew (SIGAPP ACR). In addition, it is being examined the possibility of
organizing Special Issues in journals related to the themes of the track. These
Special Issues will include a collection of the best papers accepted i
n the track.
A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be
accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in
the symposium proceedings.
Please note that we are not soliciting for just poster papers. We will select
the poster papers from the submitted pool of reviewed, regular papers.
Paper submissions should be sent to the Track Chair. Papers spanning more than
one track should be mailed to the Program Chairs (Andrea Omicini
and Roger L. Wainwright ). For mo
re information please visit the SAC 2005 website.
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The following paper submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
1) A previous ABSTRACT SUBMISSION must be received by e-mail by Wednesday
September 1, 2004. Electronic submission is encouraged. Hardcopy and fax
submissions will not be accepted.
2) Paper submission must be received by e-mail by Friday September 3, 2004.
Electronic submission is encouraged. Hardcopy and fax submissions will not be
accepted.
2.1) Submit the original paper to Track Chair (to vmasero @ unex.es) .
2.2) The name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) must not appear in the body
of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate blind review.
2.3) The BODY of the paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15
pages, double-spaced, 12-point font size). Later, if accepted, paper must fit
within five (5) two column pages, with the option (at additional exp
ense) to add three (3) more pages.
2.4) A separate file containing a COVER SHEET should include the title of the
paper, a maximum of five keywords selected among the topics of interest of the
track, the name(s), affiliation(s), and address(es), email(s),
phone(s) and fax(es) of the AUTHOR(S).
2.5) In the submission E-MAIL, please include the title of the paper, a maximum
of five keywords selected among the topics of interest of the track, the name,
affiliation, address, email, phone, and fax of the author who
serves as the CONTACT PERSON for the paper.
Please note that submission of abstract on September first is mandatory. It
will not be accepted to submit only the full paper on September 3.
Referees
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The quality of papers in the Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health
Care" 2005 will depend on the willingness of educators, researchers and others
interested in this track to serve as referees. Papers will be s
ent shortly after the September 3 submission deadline. Referee reports must be
RECEIVED no later than October 9. Please respond to this Call for Referees
before September 1 to indicate your interest in serving as a refere
e for the "Computer Applications in Health Care" Track at SAC'05. Please
indicate your Name, Institutional Affiliation, Postal Address, Telephone, Fax,
Email, Webpage, Keywords describing your areas of expertise, List of
RELATED publications in last 2 years and Short CV (up to two pages) with
related items. The Track Program Chair address is shown above.
IMPORTANT DUE DATES
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Sept. 1, 2004: Referee application submission
Sept. 1, 2004: Abstract submission
Sept. 3, 2004: Paper submissions (Firm)
Oct. 15, 2004: Author notification
Nov. 5, 2004: Camera-Ready Copy
Mar. 13-17, 2005: SAC 2005 Conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico,
U.S.A.