[agents] ICTH 2015: Sept. 27-30, Berlin, Germany (Final Extension: June 15)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

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The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2015)

September 27-30, 2015
Berlin, Germany

http://icth-15.dai-labor.de/
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Important Dates
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- Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2015 (Final)
- Acceptance Notification: June 26, 2015
- Final Manuscript Due: July 26, 2015

The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and healthcare who are engaged in different facets of ICT and healthcare. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related topics of interests.

ICTH-2015 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://euspn-15.dai-labor.de/).

Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care
- Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems
- Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems
- Clinical Data and Knowledge Management
- Cloud Computing for Healthcare
- Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare
- Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care
- Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare
- Data Visualization
- Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
- Drug Information Systems
- Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare
- Digital Hospitals
- E-health & m-health
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)
- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
- Healthgrids
- Health Portals
- Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments
- Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications
- Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems
- Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare
- RFID Solutions for Healthcare
- Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments
- Telemedicine and Health Telematics
- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare
- Usability & Socio Technical studies
- User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications
- Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare
- Virtual Environments for Healthcare

Committees
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Honorary Chair
  Sahin Albayrak, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany

General Chair
  Ellen Jaatun, Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, St. Olvas Hospital, Norway

Program Chairs
  Sebastian Ahrndt, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Advisory Committee
  Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada
  Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
  Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada

Workshops Chair
  Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UA

Local Arrangements Members
  Johannes Fähndrich, TU Berlin, Germany
  Jan Keiser, DAI-Lab, TU Berlin, Germany
  Fikret Sivrikaya, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany

Publicity Chair
  Christian Kuster, German-Turkish Advanced ICT Research Centre, Germany