[agents] MASH'14 @ AAMAS 2014 - Call For Papers (with Special Issue on AIIM)

Wed Jan 8 17:11:00 EST 2014

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UPDATE

Selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the
paper to a special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (
<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/>
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
MASH’14 @ AAMAS 2014

Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare 2014

www.fe.up.pt/mash14 <http://www.fe.up.pt/mash14> 

May 5-6, 2014, Paris France
AAMAS2014: http://aamas2014.lip6.fr

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Aims and Scope

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Since 2002, AAMAS has become one of the most important forums of discussion
regarding agents and multi-agents systems.

The Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare 2014 Workshop intends to provide a
discussion forum on the most recent and innovative work regarding the study
and application of multi-agent systems and related concepts to healthcare.

The use of this kind of systems in healthcare applications constitutes an
increasingly important area research. There is a growing interest in these
applications in different 

environments such as patient clinical record and follow-up management,
patient monitoring in either a hospital or home environment, and patient
transportation scheduling.

Covering a wide spectrum of research areas, MASH'14 intends to bring
together communities from Agents/Multi-Agent Systems and clinicians working
on Healthcare, providing a presentation and discussion forum for researchers
in the area, highlighting innovative approaches, multidisciplinary works,
and defining future research directions. Both theoretical and practical
research works are welcome.

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Topics of Interest
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Submissions should concern the use of agents (virtual or physics)
encompassed in the healthcare context - e.g. ranging from equipment and drug
inventory management to patient clinical record and follow-up management, or
even patient monitoring in either a hospital or home environment, and
patient transportation scheduling.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Mobile Agents in Hospital Environments

- Impact of Agents and Robots in Patient Quality of Life

- Robotics in Healthcare (Prosthetics / Surgical Robotics)

- Patient Empowerment through Personalised Agent-based Systems

- Medical Agent-based Decision Support Systems, including Recommender
Systems, Patient Diagnosis and Monitoring Systems

- Ethics, Legal Issues and Security in Healthcare Agent-based Systems

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Important Dates 
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Submission Deadline: January 22 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 19 2014
Camera-ready Deadline: February 25 2014
MASH 2014: May 5-6 2014

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Venue

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MASH’14 will be held in May 5-6, 2014 in Paris, France, as a workshop of
AAMAS 2014.

The conference will take place in the
<http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/parst-paris-marriott-rive-gauche-hote
l-and-conference-center/> Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference
Center.

More information regarding the venue can be found at the conference website
at  <http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/venue.php> http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/venue.php 

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Additional Information and Submission Details
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Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. Authors are
encouraged to submit papers up to 8 pages following the AAMAS 2014 format,
specified in the Formatting Instructions section in
<http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/submissions.php>
http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/submissions.php.

The format follows the ACM proceedings guidelines and consists of balanced
double columns, 9 pt text, 1" (2.54cm) margins top and bottom, and 0.75"
(1.9cm) margins left and right. Each column is 3.33" (8.45cm) wide with a
separation of 0.33" (0.83cm). Authors are encouraged to use the provided
LaTeX style file ( <http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/tools/assets/aamas2014.cls>
aamas2014.cls) for formatting their paper. An
<http://aamas2014.lip6.fr/tools/assets/aamas2014-example.tar.gz>  example of
a latex file and formatting is also provided. Please do not modify the style
files, or any layout parameters.

Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission
website -  <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mash14>
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mash14 no later than January 22,
2014. 

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee
members. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so authors should omit
their names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and take reasonable
care to assure anonymity during the review process. 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 19, 2014 and the
camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers
comments should be submitted by February 25, 2014. 

Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS
2014 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made
available to workshop participants.

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special
issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (publisher: Elsevier; IF:
1.355)
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence-in-medicine/)

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Program Committee
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Aditya Ghose (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Agostino Poggi (Universita' degli Studi di Parma, Italy)

Alberto Fernandez Gil (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

Altamiro Costa-Pereira (University of Porto, Portugal)

Álvaro Rocha (Universidade Europeia / LIACC, Portugal)

Amílcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Christian Guttmann (IBM Research Australia, Australia)

Eugénio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)

Floriana Grasso (University of Liverpool, UK)

Haiping Xu (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)

Iolanda Leite (Yale University, USA)

Kasper Hallenborg (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Luiz Cysneiros (York University, Canada)

Martin Beer (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Martin Michalowski (Adventium Labs, USA)

Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland,
Switzerland)

Miguel Henriques Abreu (Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto, Portugal)

Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

Paulo de Carvalho (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Raman Paranjape (University of Regina, Canada)

Ricardo Cruz Correia (University of Porto, Portugal)

Rosa Vicari (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Stefan Kirn (University of Hohenheim , Germany )

Stefano Bromuri (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland,
Switzerland)

Sylvain Giroux (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Szymon Wilk (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

Vassilis Koutkias (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Vera Werneck (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Xiaoqin Zhang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)

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Organizing Committee
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Daniel Castro Silva - University of Porto, Portugal

Pedro Henriques Abreu - University of Coimbra, Portugal

Luís Paulo Reis - University of Minho, Portugal

Márcia Ito - São Paulo Faculty of Technology / IBM Research Brazil, Brazil

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Contacts

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The MASH’14 Organizing Committee can be contacted at

 <mailto:aamas2014.mash at gmail.com> aamas2014.mash at gmail.com

Organizing Committee Contact Persons:

Daniel Castro Silva -  <mailto:dcs at fe.up.pt> dcs at fe.up.pt

Pedro Henriques Abreu -  <mailto:pha at dei.uc.pt> pha at dei.uc.pt