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CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care" Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005) March 13 to 17, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A. http://compahec.unex.es/compahec/conferences/compahec/compahec05 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005 (Technical Tracks) SAC '05: ~~~~~~~ For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, professionals in the health and biologi cal sciences, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). Its proceedings are published by AC M in both printed form and CD-ROM. They are also available on the web through ACM Digital Library. More information about SIGAPP and past SACs can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp. For additional information about SA C 2005, please check the web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental or theoretical computing and application development for the technical sessions. Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care": ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have provided the tools and the environment to study, analyze, and better understand complex medical problems. This technological development has enabled resear chers to provide increasingly advanced services, including Computer Assisted Radiology, Telemedicine, Robotized Teleoperating Systems, etc. In recent years, research in Computer Applications applied to Health Care has dramatically intensified. The Track "Computer Applications in Health Care" in SAC 2005 aims to provide a platform for researchers to present an d discuss recent breakthroughs in this area. Major topics of interest include the following in the context of Health Care. This is not an exhaustive list: · Programming methodologies in applications for health care including object oriented, subject oriented, component oriented, aspect oriented, agent oriented, genetic and evolutionary programming, fuzzy programming and hyb rid paradigms. · Theoretical aspects of computer programming with a clear practical potential in applying the results to health care. · Computer applications for medical imaging: Computer applications of medical image segmentation, Computer applications for 3D reconstruction in medical imaging, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, etc. · Web programming and engineering involving health care applications. · Knowledge recovery in databases, including data mining and methods such as clustering, classification, Bayesian networks and association rules. · Computer applications for telemedicine and telecare applications. Methodologies for e-health, telehealth and knowledge management integration in intranets and the Internet. Computer applications for teleteaching of heal th care. · Artificial Intelligence in health care. · Decision support systems, including knowledge based systems, belief networks, statistical models, fuzzy models, evolutionary programming, hybrid systems, and intelligent agents. · Evidence-based health care including computer assisted diagnosis and prognosis, risk analysis, example-based learning, problem-based learning and case-based reasoning. · Human-computer interaction including human factors, cognitive modeling, problem solving strategies, linguistic comprehension, user interface design, direct manipulation techniques and virtual reality. · Health care information systems and groupware, including computerized patient records, survey applications in health care specialties, decision support systems, clinical information system design architectures and elect ronic document interchange and computer-supported collaborative work. · Theoretical or practical ICT applications involving health care. · Computer applications for medical informatics. · Any other computer application in health care. TRACK ORGANIZER AND CHAIR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valentin Masero Computer Science Department University of Extremadura Escuela Politecnica Campus Universitario. Avda. Universidad, s/n 10.071 Caceres (Spain) e-mail: vmasero @ unex.es PAPERS ~~~~~~ Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of experimental or theoretical computing and application development relevant to the themes of the track. Submissions fall into the following categories: · Original and unpublished research work · Reports of innovative computing applications in the sciences, and engineering areas of Health Care · Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains · Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems Peer groups with expertise in the track focus areas will blindly review submissions to this track. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. The a ccepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC 2005 proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP Applied Computing Rev iew (SIGAPP ACR). In addition, it is being examined the possibility of organizing Special Issues in journals related to the themes of the track. These Special Issues will include a collection of the best papers accepted i n the track. A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. Please note that we are not soliciting for just poster papers. We will select the poster papers from the submitted pool of reviewed, regular papers. Paper submissions should be sent to the Track Chair. Papers spanning more than one track should be mailed to the Program Chairs (Andrea Omicini and Roger L. Wainwright ). For mo re information please visit the SAC 2005 website. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following paper submission guidelines must be strictly followed: 1) A previous ABSTRACT SUBMISSION must be received by e-mail by Wednesday September 1, 2004. Electronic submission is encouraged. Hardcopy and fax submissions will not be accepted. 2) Paper submission must be received by e-mail by Friday September 3, 2004. Electronic submission is encouraged. Hardcopy and fax submissions will not be accepted. 2.1) Submit the original paper to Track Chair (to vmasero @ unex.es) . 2.2) The name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. 2.3) The BODY of the paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced, 12-point font size). Later, if accepted, paper must fit within five (5) two column pages, with the option (at additional exp ense) to add three (3) more pages. 2.4) A separate file containing a COVER SHEET should include the title of the paper, a maximum of five keywords selected among the topics of interest of the track, the name(s), affiliation(s), and address(es), email(s), phone(s) and fax(es) of the AUTHOR(S). 2.5) In the submission E-MAIL, please include the title of the paper, a maximum of five keywords selected among the topics of interest of the track, the name, affiliation, address, email, phone, and fax of the author who serves as the CONTACT PERSON for the paper. Please note that submission of abstract on September first is mandatory. It will not be accepted to submit only the full paper on September 3. Referees ~~~~~~~~ The quality of papers in the Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care" 2005 will depend on the willingness of educators, researchers and others interested in this track to serve as referees. Papers will be s ent shortly after the September 3 submission deadline. Referee reports must be RECEIVED no later than October 9. Please respond to this Call for Referees before September 1 to indicate your interest in serving as a refere e for the "Computer Applications in Health Care" Track at SAC'05. Please indicate your Name, Institutional Affiliation, Postal Address, Telephone, Fax, Email, Webpage, Keywords describing your areas of expertise, List of RELATED publications in last 2 years and Short CV (up to two pages) with related items. The Track Program Chair address is shown above. IMPORTANT DUE DATES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sept. 1, 2004: Referee application submission Sept. 1, 2004: Abstract submission Sept. 3, 2004: Paper submissions (Firm) Oct. 15, 2004: Author notification Nov. 5, 2004: Camera-Ready Copy Mar. 13-17, 2005: SAC 2005 Conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.