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<div class="">First CALL FOR PAPERS - A2HC@AAMAS 2021</div>
<div class=""><b class="">XIII Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare</b></div>
<div class="">Part of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems</div>
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<div class="">Workshop website: <a href="https://a2hc2021.github.io" class="">https://a2hc2021.github.io</a></div>
<div class="">London, UK.</div>
<div class="">3-7 May 2021.</div>
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<div class="">Aims and scope of A2HC</div>
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<div 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.</div>
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<div class="">Topics like Healthy Ageing, Active Living, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Empowerment or others related to Quality of Life are example of domains of interest.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest include:</div>
<div class="">- Agent-based methods for medical image segmentation or classification</div>
<div class="">- Agent-based decision support systems for disease diagnosis</div>
<div class="">- Agent-based medical data processing, such as EMR management and exchange, healthcare data streams from Internet of Things, HIS interoperability and integration</div>
<div class="">- Mobile agents in hospital environments</div>
<div class="">- Patient empowerment and chronic disease self-management through personalised agent-based systems and models</div>
<div class="">- Intelligent agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery</div>
<div class="">- Clinical agent-based decision support systems, including recommender systems</div>
<div class="">- Conversational agents and personal digital assistants for patient empowerment</div>
<div class="">- Intelligent agents delivering information about discovery, lookup, fruition of medical services</div>
<div class="">- Intelligent agents for patient monitoring and assisting diagnosis</div>
<div class="">- Agent-based information retrieval for gathering, aggregating, processing, and organising various medical data available on Internet</div>
<div class="">- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of software agents in health care</div>
<div class="">- Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care</div>
<div class="">- Agent technology for preference learning as in the case of personal activity trainers</div>
<div class="">- Agent technology for resource planning and task allocation in hospital environment</div>
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<div class="">Journal Publication and Submission instructions</div>
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<div class="">All accepted and presented papers will be published in a Special Issue of a selected international Journal, that organisers are currently evaluating.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">Important dates</div>
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<div class="">Paper submission: 5 February 2021</div>
<div class="">Authors notification: 5 March 2021</div>
<div class="">Camera-ready submission: 19 March 2021</div>
<div class="">Conference: 3-7 May 2021</div>
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<div class="">Organisation Chairs</div>
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<div class="">Stefano Mariani</div>
<div class="">University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy</div>
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<div class="">Sara Montagna</div>
<div class="">University of Bologna, Italy</div>
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<div class="">Michael I. Schumacher</div>
<div class="">Institute of Business Information Systems</div>
<div class="">University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland</div>
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<div class="">Program Committee</div>
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<div class="">Diana Adamatti - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande</div>
<div class="">Mohamed Tahar Bennai - University of Boumerdès</div>
<div class="">Angelo Croatti - University of Bologna</div>
<div class="">Viviana Mascardi - University of Genoa</div>
<div class="">Juan Carlos Nieves - Umeå University</div>
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<div class="">Venue</div>
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<div class="">A2HC 2021 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference.</div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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Sara Montagna, PhD<br class="">
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna<br class="">
Department of Computer Science end Engineering<br class="">
Campus di Cesena, via dell'Università 50, 47522 Cesena (FC) - Italy<br class="">
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mailto: <a href="mailto:sara.montagna@unibo.it" class="">sara.montagna@unibo.it</a><br class="">
tel: 0547 339216<br class="">
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