<div dir="ltr">[Apologies for cross-posting.] <div><span style="color:rgb(118,113,113);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16pt">Call for Papers</span><br><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande";font-size:14px"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:LucidaGrande"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>**********************************************************************************</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Helvetica" color="#3a88fe"><i>The 14th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH)</i></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div><b>Date</b>: October 28-30, 2024</div><div><b>Location</b>: Leuven, Belgium </div><div><b>Website</b>: <a href="https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/" target="_blank">https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/</a> </div><div>**********************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#3a88fe" size="3" face="Times">IMPORTANT DATES </font></div><div>------------------</div><div><div> - Workshop Proposals: May 30, 2024</div><div> - Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2024</div><div> - Author Notification: August 3, 2024</div><div> - Final Manuscript Due: September 3, 2024</div><div><br></div></div><div><font color="#3a88fe" size="3" face="Times">PUBLICATION</font></div><div>-------------</div><div><div>All ICTH 2024 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" target="_blank">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com/" target="_blank">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex" target="_blank">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/" target="_blank">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: </div><div><br></div><div> - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a>)</div><div> - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (<a href="http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index" target="_blank">http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index</a>) </div><div> - International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, IASKS (<a href="https://iasks.org/juspn" target="_blank">https://iasks.org/juspn</a>)</div><div> - International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, IGI Global (<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-communications/1158" target="_blank">http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-communications/1158</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><b>ICTH 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-24/" target="_blank">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-24/</a>)</b>. Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/call-for-papers.html" target="_blank">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/call-for-papers.html</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#3a88fe" face="Times" size="3">VENUE</font></div><div>-------</div><div><div>ICTH 2024 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven City. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber).</div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#3a88fe" face="Times" size="3">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </font></div><div>------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>- Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care</div><div>- Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems</div><div>- Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems</div><div>- Clinical Data and Knowledge Management</div><div>- Cloud Computing for Healthcare</div><div>- Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare</div><div>- Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care</div><div>- Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare</div><div>- Data Visualization</div><div>- Decision Support Systems in Healthcare</div><div>- Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems</div><div>- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare</div><div>- Digital Hospitals</div><div>- Drug Information Systems</div><div>- E-health & m-health</div><div>- Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR)</div><div>- Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)</div><div>- Healthgrids</div><div>- Health Portals</div><div>- Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments</div><div>- Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications</div><div>- Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare</div><div>- Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems</div><div>- Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare</div><div>- RFID Solutions for Healthcare</div><div>- Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments</div><div>- Telemedicine and Health Telematics</div><div>- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare</div><div>- Usability & Socio Technical studies</div><div>- User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications</div><div>- Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare</div><div>- Virtual Environments for Healthcare </div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.8px"><font color="#3a88fe" face="Times">COMMITTEES</font></span></b> </div><div><b>General Chairs</b></div><div> Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany</div><div> Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil</div><div><br></div><div><b>Program Chairs</b></div><div> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</div><div> Hamid Mcheick, UQAC, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><b>Workshops' Chair</b></div><div> Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France</div><div><br></div><div><b>International Journals Chair </b></div><div> Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</div><div><br></div><div><b>Publicity Chairs</b></div><div> Amal Al-Murfadi, Hasselt University, Belgium</div><div> Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria</div><div> Orven E. Llantos, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines</div><div><br></div><div><b>Technical Program Committee</b></div><div> <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/program-committees.html" target="_blank">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-24/program-committees.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><b>Steering Committee Chair</b></div><div> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><b>Advisory Committee</b></div><div> Abdullah Ali Al-Maniri, Oman Medical Specialty Board, Oman </div><div> Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada</div><div> Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA</div><div> Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark</div><div> Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</div><div> Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Orven E. Llantos, PhD, SMIEEE<div>Professor of Computer Science</div><div>College of Computer Studies</div><div><br></div><div>Program Coordinator</div><div>Master of Data Science</div><div>School of Interdisciplinary Studies</div><div>MSU-IIT</div></div></div></div></div>
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