[agents] [Special Issue Announcement] - XIV Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare at AAMAS 2022

[Montagna, Sara]

Apologies for cross posting

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Second CALL FOR PAPERS - A2HC at AAMAS 2022
XIV Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare
Part of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems 2022

Workshop website: https://a2hc.github.io/a2hc2022/
Fully ONLINE.

*Paper submission Deadline: 4th March 2022 (extended)*

*A selection of the best accepted papers will be revised according to the
comments of the reviewers and published in a Special Issue of *
*Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier, I.F. 5.428*


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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.

Core aspects of this workshop are:
1. Interdisciplinary research: special efforts will be devoted to
attracting the attention of healthcare and biomedical specialists so
that they attend the workshop and realize the potential benefits of
agent technology.
2. Applied research: the organizing committee will also pay special
attention to papers describing applications for both academia and
industries ready to be deployed in medical organizations.
3. Research devoted to integrating agents with other technologies from
the broad AI domain will be particularly welcome, such as machine
learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, distributed planning;
4. Applications that include conversational agents (chatbots) to
support physical or mental patient health care will be warmly
received.
5. Research devoted to explainable agents for interpretability and
explainability in healthcare will significantly contribute to the AI
agent-based domain.
6.      Gamified Agent systems for supporting rehabilitation are
particularly welcome, such as agent-based application/research with
augmented or virtual reality for virtual coaching.


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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:  January 30, 2022        March 4, 2022 (strict)
Authors notification:  February 27, 2022     March 28, 2022
Camera-ready submission: March 13, 2022   April 14, 2022
Conference: May 9-10, 2022

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Organisation Chairs
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Sara Montagna
University of Urbino, Italy

Stefano Mariani
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Gaetano Manzo
Applied Intelligent Systems Lab (AISLab), University of Applied
Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO),
Sierre, Switzerland

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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Davide Calvaresi,University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Angelo Croatti, Università di Bologna
Esteban Guerrero, University of Vaasa
Helena Lindgren, Umeå University
Viviana Mascardi, Università degli Studi di Genova
Juan Carlos Nieves, Umeå University
Valeria Seidita, Università degli Studi di Parlermo
Emilio Sulis, Università degli Studi di Torino
Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

...TBC

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Venue
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A2HC 2022 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference.

Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 situation, 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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