[agents] CfP: 2nd Workshop on Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare (at PAKDD '14)

[Xiaohui Tao]

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              The Second International Workshop on 
       Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare (DANTH '14)
                  Tainan, Taiwan 13 May 2014

                    	CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Second International Workshop on Data Analytics for Targeted 
Healthcare (DANTH '14) in Conjunction with the 18th Pacific-Asia 
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Tainan, Taiwan, 
13 May 2014. 

Homepage: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/danth

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# Full paper submission:                  6 January 2014 
# Notification of acceptance:            5 February 2014  
# Camera-ready submission:              19 February 2014 
# Workshop:                                  13 May 2014
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To succeed in transforming healthcare, many countries will need to 
move to more targeted healthcare. Successful migration must encourage 
innovation, provide access to more complete patient information and 
incorporate advanced clinical knowledge into clinical decision-making. 
Aiming at successfully transforming healthcare, some interdependent 
challenges need to be overcome, such as prevalence of tightly coupled 
applications and data; inadequate data and knowledge standards; 
insufficient analytics capabilities; unsatisfactory security and 
privacy methodologies; absence of a clinical decision-making foundation. 
Knowledge discovery and data mining techniques, especially data 
analytics, have been proven holding much promise for solving these 
problems. Providers can use health care data analytics to learn about 
patient populations, enhance preventive care and drive business 
decisions by accessing key data such as demographics and chronic 
conditions. Therefore, nowadays the healthcare industry requires a much 
more open, robust health information technology environment than ever 
existed, especially the techniques and methodologies in knowledge 
discovery and data mining.

Targeting on these interesting questions, following the success of the 
first edition (DANTH 2013) the second, DANTH 2013 workshop focuses on how 
data analytics can improve information management in healthcare. The 
workshop will bring together researchers from different countries and 
regions to foster dissemination, increase the share of knowledge cross 
different domains, and strengthen the research on data analytic 
techniques and related applications to healthcare problems. 

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Topics of Interest
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TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

 - Healthcare Management Systems
 - Databases and Data Management
 - Data mining, knowledge discovery, decision making support
 - Pattern recognition, Sequence Analysis, and Machine Learning
 - System interoperability, ontology and standardization
 - Bioinformatics
 - Brain informatics
 - Image Analysis and Processing
 - Neural Networks
 - Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
 - Telemedicine
 - Semantic Interoperability
 - Health information visualization
 - Computational Molecular Systems
 - Support tools and languages for health information-system development
 - Medical Data Collection and Processing
 - Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence
 - Modelling of Physical and Conceptual Information 
 - User Profiles and Personalised Healthcare
 - Social, Privacy, and Security Issues in Healthcare
 - Evaluation and use of Healthcare IT
 - Software Systems in Medicine
 - Pervasive Health Systems and Services
 - Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
 - Web Services in Bioinformatics
 - Fuzzy Systems and Signals
 - Infodemiology, public health surveillance 

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Keynote Speakers
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- Professor Yanchun Zhang     
  Victoria University, Australia

- To be advised

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words. It 
should not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with 10pt font size. 
Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript 
submission guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
for the initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically 
through the paper submission system in PDF format only. Note that 
submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, 
at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper.

The accepted papers will be published in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings 
of PAKDD Workshops published by Springer in the second half of 2014. 
Published papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP 
and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink 
Digital Library. 

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Special Issue
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To be advised.

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Organising Committee
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GENERAL CHAIRS
 * Osmar Zaïane         University of Alberta, Canada
 * Dajun (Daniel) Zeng  University of Arizona, United States

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
 * Xiaohui Tao          University of Southern Queensland, Australia
 * Hongmin Cai          South China University of Technology, China
 * Ji Zhang             University of Southern Queensland, Australia

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
 * Guandong Xu          University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 * Yidong Li            Beijing Jiaotong University, China

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Tentative)

 * Ritu Chauhan	Amity Institute of Biotechnology, India
 * Ling Chen	University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 * Peter Dolog	Aalborg University, Denmark
 * Kazuyuki Imamura	Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Alípio Jorge	University of Porto, Portugal
 * Ritu Khare	National Institutes of Health, USA
 * Yan Li	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
 * Xue Li	University of Queensland, Australia
 * Zhiyong Lu	National Institutes of Health, USA
 * Mohd Saberi Mohamad	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
 * Mohyuddin	King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, 
                     Saudi Arabia
 * Chaoyi Pang	CSIRO, Australia
 * Jeffrey Soar	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
 * Weighing Su	United International College, Hong Kong
 * Shusaku Tsumoto	Shimane University, Japan
 * Guoyin Wang	Chongqing Uni of Posts and Telecom, China
 * Jie Wan	University College Dublin, Ireland
 * Xin Wang	University of Calgary, Canada
 * Zhiang Wu	Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
 * Zongda Wu	Wenzhou University, China
 * Xiaoyin Xu	The Brigham Women’s Hospital, USA
 * Yue Xu	Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 * Zhenglu Yang	University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Neil Yen	The University of Aizu, Japan
 * Ji Zhang	University of Southern Queensland, Australia
 * Yanchang Zhao	RDataMining.com, Australia
 * Xiaobo Zhou	The Methodist Hospital, USA

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General Enquiry
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- danth2014 at gmail.com


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