[agents] Agents Applied in Health Care: A2HC @ AAMAS 2015 - CFP

[Juan Carlos Nieves]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
A2HC @ AAMAS 2015

IX Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care

www.fe.up.pt/A2HC15 <http://www.fe.up.pt/A2HC15>

Submission

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=a2hc2015

May 4-8, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
AAMAS2015:http://www.aamas2015.com/

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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.

Intelligent agent-based systems constitute one of the most exciting 
research areas in Artificial Intelligence. Due to the growing interest 
in the application of agent-based systems in health care, a number of 
applications addressing clinical problems are already based in agent 
technology. Thus, it is 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.

Current topics of research include personalized health systems for 
remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation 
between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, 
information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed 
repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent 
systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and 
diagnosis. Several methodological and technical problems have been 
discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems 
in the medical area; just to name a few, the growing number of huge 
databases that need to be integrated (e.g. genetic data from next 
generation sequencing), the difficulty to integrate new agent-based 
systems with legacy software, the need to apply changing national and 
international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical 
data and the security of the transaction of patient information between 
agents.

Covering a wide spectrum of research areas, A2HC 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.


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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

- Patient Empowerment through Personalized Agent-based Systems

- Agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery.

- Medical Agent-based Decision Support Systems, including Recommender 
Systems

- Agents that provide information about medical services.

- MAS for patient monitoring and diagnosis.

- Applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.

- MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).

- Information agents that gather, compile and organize medical data and 
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.

- Integration and use of medical ontologies.

- Lack of centralized control.

- Communication standards.

- Integration with other types of software.

- Impact of Agents and Robots in Patient Quality of Life

- Robotics in Healthcare (Prosthetics / Surgical Robotics/Assistive 
Technologies)

- 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.

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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: February 11 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 10 2015
Camera-ready Deadline: March 19 2015
Workshop: May 4-5 2015

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Venue

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A2HC will be held in May 4-5, 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, as a workshop of 
AAMAS 2015.

The conference will take place in the Istanbul Congress Center, Turkey.

More information regarding the venue can be found at the conference 
website at http://www.aamas2015.com/en/CONFERENCE-VENUE.html


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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 2015 
format, specified in the Formatting Instructions section 
inhttp://www.aamas2015.com/en/Submission-Instructions.html

Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the 
submission website - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=a2hc2015no 
later than February 11, 2015.

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 March 10, 2015 and the 
camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers 
comments should be submitted by March 19, 2015.

Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to 
AAMAS 2015 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will 
NOT be made available to workshop participants.


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Program Committee
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- Aditya Ghose (University of Wollongong, Australia)

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

- Alan Kalton (IBM Research Nairobi, Kenya)

- Alberto Fernandez Gil (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

- Álvaro Rocha (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

- Amílcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

- Amineh Ghorbani (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

- Ana Paula Rocha (University of Porto, Portugal)

- Antonio Moreno (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)

- Barbara J. Grosz (Harvard - School of Engineering and Applied 
Sciences, USA)

- Beatriz López Ibáñez (University of Girona, Spain)

- Bostjan Kaluza (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

- Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA)

- Eloisa Vargiu (Barcelona Digital, Spain)

- Eugénio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)

- Francisco Grimaldo (University of Valencia, Spain)

- Haiping Xu (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)

- Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal)

- Iolanda Leite (Yale University, USA)

- Jesús Favela (CICESE Research Centre, USA)

- Juan Carlos Nieves (Universitat Umea, Sweden)

- Juan Corchado (University of Salamanca, Spain)

- Juan Manuel Orduña-Huertas (Universitat València, Spain)

- Kasper Hallenborg (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

- Lenka Lhotska (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

- Luís Paulo Reis (University of Minho, Portugal)

- Luiz Cysneiros (York University, Canada)

- Martin Beer (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

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

- Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

- Ozgur Kafali (University of London, UK)

- Pedro J. García-Laencina (University Centre of Defence, Spain)

- Raman Paranjape (University of Regina, Canada)

- Rosaldo Rossetti (University of Porto, Portugal)

- 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)

- Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

- 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

Michael Schumacher - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western 
Switzerland

Cristian Barrué - Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

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Contacts

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Organizing Committee Contact Persons:

Daniel Castro Silva - University of Porto, Portugal - dcs at fe.up.pt 
<mailto:dcs at fe.up.pt>

Pedro Henriques Abreu - University of Coimbra, Portugal - pha at dei.uc.pt 
<mailto:pha at dei.uc.pt>