[agents] Revised Deadline: 5th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care

Michael Luck michael.luck at kcl.ac.uk
Thu Jan 24 04:54:42 EST 2008 

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              CFP: 5th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care


                       To be held in conjunction with the
Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent  
Systems
                                  (AAMAS 2008)
                                 12-16 May 2008

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                        Deadline extended to February 3rd
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* Technical description

Multi-agent systems are one of the most exciting research areas in  
Artificial Intelligence. In the last eight years there has been a  
growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health  
care. The first specialised workshop on this area was held at  
Autonomous Agents '2000 in
Barcelona, Spain; several other workshops and special issues of  
journals have followed since then. Moreover, a growing European  
community of researchers interested in the application of intelligent  
agents in health care emerged as a result of the activities
within the AgentCities European project and the AgentLink III  
Technical Forum Group on Healthcare Applications of Intelligent  
Agents. Thus, it may now be a good time for the specialists in the  
field to meet and report on the results achieved in this area, to  
discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that
agent-based systems may bring to medical domains, and also to provide  
a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near  
future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a  
reality.

This one-day workshop will incorporate two novel aspects with respect  
to related workshops held in the last years:
* Special efforts will be devoted to try to attract the attention of  
health care specialists, so that they attend the workshop and realise  
the potential benefits of agent technology (a medical doctor is part  
of the organising committee).
* The organising committee will also pay special attention to papers  
describing applications which are not just academic, but are already  
deployed and running in a real medical environment. Patient-centered  
applications are welcome.


Submitted papers and demos should address at least one of the  
following issues:

* Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve patient  
management (e.g. distributed patient  scheduling).
* Agents that provide remote or elderly care delivery.
* Agents that provide information about medical services.
* Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
* Agent-based execution of clinical guidelines.
* Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health  
care.
* Multi-agent systems that improve medical training or education (e.g.  
tutoring systems).
* Patient-centered agent-based applications.
* Medical agent-based decision support systems.
* Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical  
knowledge available on Internet.
* Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems  
associated to the real deployment of health-care agent-based systems:
  - Security, privacy of medical data.
  - Social acceptance of agent-based systems.
  - Lack of common medical ontologies.
  - Lack of centralised control.
  - Communication standards.
  - Integration with other types of software.
  -Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
* Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the  
area of agents in health care.

Submissions must be sent in PDF format to the workshop contact person.  
They must be formatted following the guidelines of the main AAMAS  
conference. Papers must not be longer than 8 pages.
The workshop organisers would appreciate that anyone intending to  
submit a paper to the workshop communicates this intention before  
January 20th to the workshop contact person.

* Previous editions of the workshop

  * First workshop on agents applied in health care at ECAI 2002 in  
Lyon, France
    Organised by Antonio Moreno (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, URV), Ulises  
Cortés (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, UPC) and John Fox (Cancer  
Research UK, CRUK).
    Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue  
of AI Communications (Ed: A.Moreno, 2003).

  * Second workshop on agents applied in health care at ECAI 2004 in  
Valencia, Spain
    Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), John  
Nealon (Oxford Brookes University, OBU) and John Fox (CRUK).
    Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue  
of AI Communications (Ed: J.Nealon, 2005).

  * Third workshop on agents applied in health care at IJCAI 2005 in  
Edinburgh, Scotland
    Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC) and John  
Nealon (OBU)
    Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue  
of IEEE Intelligent Systems (Ed: A.Moreno, December 2006).

  * Fourth workshop on agents applied in health care at ECAI 2006 in  
Riva del Garda, Italy
    Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), Roberta  
Annicchiarico (Fondazione Santa Lucia) and John Nealon (OBU).
    Expanded versions of selected papers published in a volume of the  
Whitestein series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic  
Computing (December 2007).


* Preliminary workshop agenda and organising schedule

The workshop will feature some of the following activities:

  - 1-2 invited presentations by international experts in the field
  - Presentation of state-of-the-art papers with the latest  
developments in the field.
  - Presentation of review-style papers.
  - Demos of practical applications of MAS in health care.
  - Panel discussion of the main problems that have to be faced to  
deploy real agent-based health-care applications.


Organising schedule:
  * February 3rd, 2008: Deadline for paper submission
  * February 25th, 2008: Notifications of acceptance/rejection sent
  * March 3rd, 2008: Deadline for sending camera-ready papers to  
workshop organisers
  * May 12th or 13th: Workshop
  * Summer-Autumn 2008:  Possibility of publishing revised and  
expanded versions of selected papers in a special issue of an  
appropriate scientific journal

* Paper review process

All the submitted papers will be revised by at least three members of  
the Program Committee. The main aspects to be reviewed will be  
originality, technical accuracy and relevance to the workshop.


* Organising committee

Antonio Moreno (contact person)
  Computer Science and Mathematics Department
  University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
  e-mail: antonio.moreno at urv.net
Ulises Cortés
  Software Department
  Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Roberta Annicchiarico
  IRCCS- Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
  Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy



* Program committee

Monique Calisti, Whitestein, Switzerland
Fabio Campana, Azienda Sanitaria Locale Roma B, Italy
Frank Dignum, Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jesús Favela, CICESE research centre, USA
Patty Koskova, City University, UK
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Magí Lluch, Microart, Spain
Mike Luck, King's College, UK
Sasha Ossowski, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Julian Padget, Univ. of Bath, UK
Pancho Tolchinski, Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain
Aida Valls, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Laszlo Varga, SZTAKI, Hungary
Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain
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