[agents] XIII Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare at AAMAS 2021 - SPECIAL ISSUE on JOMS

[Sara Montagna]

Apologies for cross posting

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Second CALL FOR PAPERS and Special Issue Announcement - A2HC at AAMAS 2021
XIII Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare
Part of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Workshop website: https://a2hc2021.github.io
London, UK.
3-7 May 2021.

Accepted papers will be revised according to the comments of the reviewers and published in a
Topical Collection of the Journal of Medical Systems, Springer, I.F. 3.058
https://www.springer.com/journal/10916

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Aims and scope of A2HC
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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.

Topics like Healthy Ageing, Active Living, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Empowerment or others related to Quality of Life are example of domains of interest.

Clinical decision support systems, adaptive and intelligent workflow management software, personal digital assistants, wearable technology ecosystems and the like are all examples of systems of interest.

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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 personalised 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 organising 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 accepted and presented papers will be published in a Special Issue of a selected international Journal, that organisers are currently evaluating.

For publication, it is required that authors carefully revise their manuscripts according to both the reviewers’ comments received while submitting to the workshop, and the comments received from the audience during the workshop.


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Important dates
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Paper submission:  5 February 2021
Authors notification:  5 March 2021
Camera-ready submission: 19 March 2021
Conference: 3-7 May 2021

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Organisation Chairs
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Stefano Mariani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Sara Montagna
University of Bologna, Italy

Michael I. Schumacher
Institute of Business Information Systems
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland


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Program Committee
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Diana Adamatti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Mohamed Tahar Bennai, University of Boumerdès
Stefano Bromuri, Open University of the Netherlands
Angelo Croatti, Università di Bologna
Viviana Mascardi, Università degli Studi di Genova
Juan Carlos Nieves, Umeå University
Emilio Sullis, Università degli Studi di Torino
Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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Venue
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A2HC 2021 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference.

Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 situation, in case the whole AAMAS conference will be held online, the workshop will accordingly be asynchronous and online, which means that each person interprets the schedule in their own time zone and an appropriate platform for sharing presentations and engaging discussion will be setup and communicated to authors in due time.


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