[agents] HIMAS @ AAMAS 2020 - Deadline Extended

[Sara Montagna]

CALL FOR PAPERS - HIMAS 2020
The First International Workshop on Healthcare Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems (HIMAS) 2020.

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/himas2020/
Auckland, New Zealand.
9-10th May 2020.


Submission deadline extended (strict): 21st February 2020


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Aims and scope of HIMAS
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This HIMAS workshop will run as part of the Nineteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS2020), as shown in accepted workshops.

Submissions should concern the use of software agents (either bound to physical devices or not) in the healthcare context, e.g.: equipment and drug inventory management, patients clinical record and follow-up management, patient monitoring in hospital or at home, planning patient transportation and interventions, etc.


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Topics
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Topics of interest include:
- Agent-based methods for medical image segmentation or classification
- Agent-based decision support systems for disease diagnosis
- Agent-based medical data processing, such as EMR management and exchange, healthcare data streams from Internet of Things, HIS interoperability and integration
- Mobile agents in hospital environments
- Patient empowerment and chronic disease self-management through personalized agent-based systems and models
- Intelligent agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery
- Clinical agent-based decision support systems, including recommender systems
- Conversational agents and personal digital assistants for patient empowerment
- Intelligent agents delivering information about discovery, lookup, fruition of medical services
- Intelligent agents for patient monitoring and assisting diagnosis
- Agent-based information retrieval for gathering, aggregating, processing, and organizing various medical data available on Internet
- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of software 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
- Agent technology for preference learning as in the case of personal activity trainers
- Agent technology for resource planning and task allocation in hospital environment


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Journal Publication and Submission instructions
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All papers accepted and presented at HIMAS2020 will be published in the prestigious: Journal of Medical Systems (JMS), Springer, Impact 2.4, H-index 63, Quartile 2, Established 1977. The HIMAS2020 papers will form a dedicated topical collection, to appear rapidly as continual publishing through 2020.

Manuscripts can be prepared according to the Springer JMS Journal format guidelines: Use MS-Word, 10-point Times Roman, Single column.

Original Research Articles – limited to 3,000 words
Review Articles – limited to 4,500 words.
Brief Technical Report – limited to 1,500 words, with 2 figures or tables, around 15 references.

Initial manuscripts should be submitted on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=himas2020

Papers submitted to HIMAS 2020 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity, and quality of presentation.


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Important dates
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Paper Submission: 7th Feb 2020  21st Feb 2020
Notification: 1st March 2020
Early registration: 15th March
Camera Ready: 1st April
Conference: 9-13th May 2020

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Organisation Chairs
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Stefano Mariani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
s.mariani at unimore.it<mailto:s.mariani at unimore.it>
http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/s.mariani

Sara Montagna
University of Bologna, Italy
sara.montagna at unibo.it<mailto:sara.montagna at unibo.it>;
http://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/SaraMontagna/WebHome

Michael I. Schumacher
Institute of Business Information Systems
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland
michael.schumacher at hevs.ch<mailto:michael.schumacher at hevs.ch>
https://www.hevs.ch/aislab
http://www.hevs.ch/htic

Dr Eloisa Vargiu
Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Spain
eloisa.vargiu at eurecat.org<mailto:eloisa.vargiu at eurecat.org>
https://sites.google.com/site/eloisavargiu/

Dr Neil Vaughan,
University of Chester, UK
Neil.vaughan at rocketmail.com<mailto:Neil.vaughan at rocketmail.com>
https://neil.nvaughan.linux.studentwebserver.co.uk/index.php/category/medicalvrsimulators/


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Program Committee
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Stefania Costantini - University of L'Aquila
Angelo Croatti - University of Bologna
Aldo Franco Dragoni - Università Politecnica delle Marche
David Isern - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ITAKA Research Group
Beatriz López - University of Girona, Spain
Viviana Mascardi - University of Genoa
Andrea Omicini - University of Bologna
Marco S. Nobile - Eindhoven University of Technology
Franco Zambonelli - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

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Venue
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HIMAS 2020 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference: https://aamas2020.conference.auckland.ac.nz/
Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held alongside AAMAS, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms as participants may also plan to attend other sessions as part of AAMAS.

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