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<span class="">CALL FOR PAPERS - HIMAS 2020</span><br class="">
<span class="">The First International Workshop on Healthcare Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems (HIMAS) 2020.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Workshop website: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/himas2020/" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/himas2020/</a><span class=""> </span><br class="">
<span class="">Auckland, New Zealand.</span><br class="">
<span class="">9-10th May 2020.</span><br class="">
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<b class=""><font size="4" class="">Submission deadline extended (strict): 21st February 2020</font></b></div>
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<span class="">Aims and scope of HIMAS</span><br class="">
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<span class="">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.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">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.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Topics</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Topics of interest include:</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent-based methods for medical image segmentation or classification</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent-based decision support systems for disease diagnosis</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent-based medical data processing, such as EMR management and exchange, healthcare data streams from Internet of Things, HIS interoperability and integration</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Mobile agents in hospital environments</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Patient empowerment and chronic disease self-management through personalized agent-based systems and models</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Intelligent agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Clinical agent-based decision support systems, including recommender systems</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Conversational agents and personal digital assistants for patient empowerment</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Intelligent agents delivering information about discovery, lookup, fruition of medical services</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Intelligent agents for patient monitoring and assisting diagnosis</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent-based information retrieval for gathering, aggregating, processing, and organizing various medical data available on Internet</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of software agents in health care</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent technology for preference learning as in the case of personal activity trainers</span><br class="">
<span class="">- Agent technology for resource planning and task allocation in hospital environment</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Journal Publication and Submission instructions</span><br class="">
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<span class="">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. </span><br class="">
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<span class="">Manuscripts can be prepared according to the Springer JMS Journal format guidelines: Use MS-Word, 10-point Times Roman, Single column.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Original Research Articles – limited to 3,000 words</span><br class="">
<span class="">Review Articles – limited to 4,500 words.</span><br class="">
<span class="">Brief Technical Report – limited to 1,500 words, with 2 figures or tables, around 15 references. </span><br class="">
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<span class="">Initial manuscripts should be submitted on EasyChair: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=himas2020" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=himas2020</a><br class="">
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<span class="">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.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Important dates</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Paper Submission:<strike class=""> 7th Feb 2020</strike> 21st Feb 2020</span><br class="">
<span class="">Notification: 1st March 2020</span><br class="">
<span class="">Early registration: 15th March</span><br class="">
<span class="">Camera Ready: 1st April</span><br class="">
<span class="">Conference: 9-13th May 2020</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Organisation Chairs</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Stefano Mariani</span><br class="">
<span class="">University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Sara Montagna</span><br class="">
<span class="">University of Bologna, Italy</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Michael I. Schumacher</span><br class="">
<span class="">Institute of Business Information Systems</span><br class="">
<span class="">University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Dr Eloisa Vargiu</span><br class="">
<span class="">Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya, Spain</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Dr Neil Vaughan,</span><br class="">
<span class="">University of Chester, UK</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Program Committee</span><br class="">
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Stefania Costantini - University of L'Aquila<br class="">
<span class="">Angelo Croatti - University of Bologna</span><br class="">
<span class="">Aldo Franco Dragoni - Università Politecnica delle Marche</span><br class="">
<span class="">David Isern - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ITAKA Research Group</span><br class="">
<span class="">Beatriz López - University of Girona, Spain</span>
<div class=""><span class="">Viviana Mascardi - University of Genoa</span><br class="">
<span class="">Andrea Omicini - University of Bologna</span><br class="">
<span class="">Marco S. Nobile - Eindhoven University of Technology</span><span class=""><br class="">
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<div class="">Franco Zambonelli - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia</div>
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<span class="">Venue</span><br class="">
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<span class="">HIMAS 2020 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference.</span><br class="">
<span class="">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.</span></div>
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