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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Third CALL FOR PAPERS and Deadline Extension - A2HC@AAMAS 2021</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""><b class="">XIII Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare</b></div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Part of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Workshop website: <a href="https://a2hc2021.github.io/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://a2hc2021.github.io/&source=gmail&ust=1612868684121000&usg=AFQjCNHleu3oEnZesPvVxhCDdSqDXIg1pg" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://a2hc2021.<wbr class="">github.io</a></div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">London, UK.</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">3-7 May 2021.</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Paper submission deadline: 1st March 2021</b></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Aims and scope of A2HC</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" 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 style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" 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 style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" 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 style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Topics</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Topics of interest include:</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Agent-based methods for medical image segmentation or classification</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Agent-based decision support systems for disease diagnosis</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" 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 style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Mobile agents in hospital environments</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Patient empowerment and chronic disease self-management through personalised agent-based systems and models</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Intelligent agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Clinical agent-based decision support systems, including recommender systems</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Conversational agents and personal digital assistants for patient empowerment</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Intelligent agents delivering information about discovery, lookup, fruition of medical services</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Intelligent agents for patient monitoring and assisting diagnosis</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Agent-based information retrieval for gathering, aggregating, processing, and organising various medical data available on Internet</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of software agents in health care</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Agent technology for preference learning as in the case of personal activity trainers</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">- Agent technology for resource planning and task allocation in hospital environment</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Journal Publication and Submission instructions</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Topical Collection of the <i class="">Journal of Medical Systems</i>, Springer, I.F. 3.058 </b></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" 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 style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Important dates</div>
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<div class=""><font color="#ff2600" class=""><b class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Paper submission:
</font><strike style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> 5 February 2021</strike><font face="TrebuchetMS" class=""> —> 1 March 2021</font></b></font><font face="TrebuchetMS" class=""> (STRICT!)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Authors notification: <strike class="">1 March 2021</strike> —> 1 April 2021</div>
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19 March 2021</strike> —> 19 April 2021</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Workshop: 3-4 May 2021</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Organisation Chairs</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Stefano Mariani</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Sara Montagna</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Bologna, Italy</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Michael I. Schumacher</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Institute of Business Information Systems</div>
<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland</div>
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<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Diana Adamatti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Mohamed Tahar Bennai, University of Boumerdès</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Stefano Bromuri, Open University of the Netherlands</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Angelo Croatti, Università di Bologna</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Viviana Mascardi, Università degli Studi di Genova</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Juan Carlos Nieves, Umeå University</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Emilio Sullis, Università degli Studi di Torino</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="TrebuchetMS" class="">Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">A2HC 2021 will be co-located with the International AAMAS conference.</div>
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<div style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 situation, the whole AAMAS conference will be held online: the workshop will accordingly be online. </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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