Prendo spunto per questo post da un avviso che mi e’ stato girato per essere pubblicato sul canale Facebook di AI*IA. Dal 2 al 6 luglio prossimi avra’ luogo AIME 2011, tredicesima edizione della conferenza su Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. La location sara’ questa volta la suggestiva Bled in Slovenia. Chiunque volesse contribuire attivamente sappia che e’ appena stata pubblicata la call for papers ufficiale, che linko e copio/incollo qui nel seguito.
The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME), was established in 1986 with two main goals:
- to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and
- to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences.
A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Verona (IT) in 2009, held biennially over the last 22 years.
The AIME’2011 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of AI in Medicine from perspectives of theory, methodology, and application. For this purpose, AIME’2011 will include invited lectures, full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The main conference will include a session dedicated to application of AI methods in the day-to-day practice of health care.
The conference will be held in Bled, Slovenia.
Program in a Glance
Day 1 (Saturday, July 2): Doctoral symposium and tutorial(s)
Day 2-4 (July 3,4,5): main AIME conference
Day 5 (Wednesday, July 6): workshops
Invited Speakers
Manfred Reichert, Institute of Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm, Germany
Andrey Rzhetsky, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Scope
Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to medical informatics, healthcare organizational aspects, and to molecular medicine.
Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.
Papers on techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art.
Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the medical field.
Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.
The scope of the conference includes the following areas:
- Knowledge Acquisition and Management
- Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies
- Decision Support Systems
- Neural Networks and Belief Networks
- Reasoning under Uncertainty
- Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Planning and Scheduling
- Protocols and Guidelines
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Generation and Understanding
- Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation
- Intelligent Agents
- Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems
- Cognitive Modeling
- Healthcare Process Management
Best paper awards honoring Mario Stefanelli and Marco Ramoni
To commemorate two outstanding researchers in our field who recently passed away, AIME will establish two awards.
Mario Stefanelli from the University of Pavia has been one of the founders of the AIME community, an inspiration to us all, and actively helped in advancing young researchers in our field. The best student paper will receive an award honoring Mario Stefanelli and his accomplishments.
Marco Ramoni has been an outstandingly respected faculty member at Harvard and advanced the biomedical informatics field. The best paper in bioinformatics will receive an award honoring Marco Ramoni and his accomplishments.
Submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials
As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Proposals for tutorials and workshops have to be sent by email to Mor Peleg: morpeleg AT mis DOT hevra DOT Haifa DOT ac DOT il.
Paper Submission
The conference features regular papers and papers for a special session on Applications AI methods in the day-to-day practice of health care. For details on the special session please click here.
There are two categories of paper submission for the regular sessions:
- Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
- Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are
- short research paperdemonstration of implemented systems
- late-breaking results (work-in-progress)
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format.
Submission to AIME’2011 will be electronically only.
Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full paper.
The paper submission web page is available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime201.
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer’s “Lecture Notes in AI” series.
In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).
As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Important dates
Proposals for Tutorials: January 27, 2011
Proposals for Workshops: January 27, 2011
Electronic Draft Abstract Submission Deadline: January 27, 2011
Electronic Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 4, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 22, 2011
