1. to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and
2. 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:

1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. 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

TAROS 2011 invites both full papers and extended abstracts. All contributions will be refereed. Full papers are invited from researchers at any stage in their career but should present significant findings and advances in robotics research; more preliminary work would be better suited to extended abstract submission. Full papers will be accepted for either oral presentation (single track) or poster presentation. Extended abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation only.

Submissions of papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following topics and related areas:

• Advanced applications of autonomous robots (industrial and research)
• Advanced materials
• Advanced medical robotics, robots for surgery
• Analysis of robot-environment interaction
• Applications development
• Assistive robotics
• Autonomous assembly robotics
• Autonomous vehicles
• Biohybrid robotic systems
• Biomimetic and bio-inspired robotics
• Cognitive robotics
• Collective robots
• Developmental robotics
• Ethical and societal issues in robotics
• Evolutionary robotics
• Field robotics
• Flying robots (unmanned- and micro- air vehicles)
• Hardware issues, devices and techniques, advanced sensor and actuator
  hardware
• Human-Robot interaction and interfaces
• Humanoid robotics
• Intelligent prostheses
• Learning and adaptation
• Legged robots
• Long-term interaction and operation
• Modelling and analysis of robot models
• Modular reconfigurable robots
• Navigation, localization, map building and path planning
• Personal robotics
• Robot autonomy including energy self-sufficiency
• Robot communication and language
• Robot control architectures
• Robots in education, the arts and entertainment
• Robot vision, sensing and perception
• Service robotics
• Space and planetary robotics
• Swarm robotics

DEADLINES

• March 11, 2011 Submission deadline
• May 11, 2011 Notification of acceptance
• May 27, 2011 Camera ready copy
• August 31 – September 2, 2011 Conference

9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

http://www.paams.net
e-mail: paams@usal.es

Salamanca (Spain), 6-8th April, 2011

SCOPE
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent systems, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

TOPICS

• Problems
• Agent-based simulation and prediction
• Distributed problem solving
• Agent cooperation and negotiation
• Agent societies and social networks
• Real-time multi-agent systems
• Human agent interaction, user interfaces
• Adaptation, learning and personalization
• Reputation, trust, privacy and security
• Agent engineering and development tools
• Evaluation, ethical and legal issues
• Domains
• Information recovery and information systems
• Knowledge management and data intensive systems
• Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
• Embodied agents and autonomous systems
• Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
• Internet softbots and web intelligence
• Virtual agents, animation and games
• Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
• E-learning and educational systems
• User-centered applications and assisting agents

SUBMISSION

• Review process
  PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
• Types of submissions
  Regular Paper: They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
  Doctoral Papers: PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts.
• Submitting papers
  All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
• Publication
  Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2011 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing.

PAAMS is listed in the Computer Science Conference Ranking as one of the top conferences in Artificial Intelligence (Position 52).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2010
Camera-Ready papers due: December 30, 2010
Conference Celebration: April 6-8, 2011

COMMITTEES

• Program
  Yves Demazeau – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
  Michal Pechoucek – Czek Republic Univeristy in Prague (Czek Republic)
• Organization
  Juan M. Corchado – University of Salamanca (Spain)
  Javier Bajo – Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain)