From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7656 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremy.Gibbons@cs.ox.ac.uk Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems (FHIES 2013) - final call for papers Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Jeremy.Gibbons@cs.ox.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365960103 25727 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2013 17:21:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:21:43 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sun Apr 14 19:21:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.186]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1URQcZ-0000H7-2N for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:21:43 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:45658) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1URQaO-00064P-6C; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:19:28 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URQaN-0000vl-Az for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:19:27 -0300 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7656 Archived-At: CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/FHIES2013/ International Institute for Software Technology United Nations University, Macau 21st-23rd August, 2013 BACKGROUND ICT plays an increasingly enabling role in addressing the global challe= nges of healthcare, in both the developed and the developing world. The= use of software in medical devices has caused growing concerns in rela= tion to safety and efficacy. The increasing adoption of health informat= ion systems provides great potential benefits but also poses severe ris= ks, both with respect to security and privacy and in regard to patient = safety. Hospital and other information systems raise important issues o= f workflow support and interoperability. Regulators, manufacturers and = clinical users have pointed out the need to research sound and science-= based engineering methods that facilitate the development and certifica= tion of quality ICT systems in health care. Such methods may draw from = or combine techniques from various disciplines, including but not limit= ed to software engineering, electronic engineering, computing science, = information science, mathematics, and industrial engineering. AIMS The purpose of the symposium series on Foundations of Health Informatio= n Engineering and Systems is to promote a nascent research area that ai= ms to develop and apply theories and methods from a variety of discipli= nes for the purpose of modeling, building and certifying software-inten= sive ICT systems in healthcare. A particular objective of FHIES is to e= xplicitly include a focus on healthcare ICT applications in the develop= ing world (in addition to systems used in the developed countries), sin= ce unique engineering challenges arise in that special setting. Because= humans often play a pivotal role in the process of using such systems,= theories from the human factors engineering community may need to be i= ntegrated with methods from the technology-oriented domains in order to= create effective engineering methodologies for socio-technical systems= in the healthcare domain. Previous FHIES symposia were held in 2011, i= n Mabalingwe, South Africa (with post-conference proceedings in Springe= r LNCS 7151, and in 2012, in Paris, France (with post-conference procee= dings to appear in Springer LNCS). SCOPE FHIES seeks contributions from both the solution domain (engineering me= thods) and the problem domain (healthcare and health informatics). Solu= tion-domain papers should present their methods in the context of a con= crete application in healthcare, while problem-domain papers should be = devised to educate the methods community about unique challenges and ch= aracteristics of the healthcare domain. Submissions should seek to info= rm and further the development, adaptation, evaluation and adoption of = formally based and rigorous engineering methods in health care systems.= Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * modelling, analysis, simulation and verification in health informatic= s; * design and verification techniques for software-based ICT and softwar= e-intensive medical devices; * application and integration of foundational methods from different di= sciplines in engineering and science to health informatics; * specific engineering challenges of ICT-based health service delivery = in different settings, especially in the developing world. For a more detailed list of topics, see the symposium website. =20 CATEGORIES We solicit high quality full submissions in the following categories: * original research contributions (16 pages max) * application experience, case studies and software prototypes (16 page= s max.) * surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (16 pages max.) * position papers identifying challenges and milestones of a research p= roject (8 pages max.) We also invite short submissions for special sessions: * student papers on work in progress on an MSc or PhD project (4 pages = max.) * tool demonstrations (2 pages max.) * proposals to organize birds-of-a-feather sessions or panels (2 pages = max.) SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be in English, prepared in the LNCS format (http://w= ww.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and all page limits are measure= d in this format. Full submissions (those in the first four categories= above) will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the= field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the sympos= ium; student papers will be judged on clarity of description and the pr= omise of interesting results; tool demonstrations and BOF proposals wil= l be judged on relevance to the symposium. All papers will be peer-revi= ewed by at least three program committee members. Papers should be sub= mitted via EasyChair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dfhies2013 Submission constitutes a commitment for at least one author to attend t= he symposium and present the paper, if it is accepted. PUBLICATION All accepted submissions will be distributed in a technical report at t= he Symposium. After the event, postproceedings will be published in Spr= inger LNCS. Authors of all accepted full submissions will be invited to= revise their papers, in order to resolve any larger issues raised duri= ng reviewing. Authors of accepted short submissions will be invited to = submit full papers for review and LNCS publication too. In addition, a= special issue of a suitable journal is planned, focusing on the overal= l objectives of FHIES: this will have an open call for contributions. IMPORTANT DATES Intention to submit: April 29th Submission deadline: May 6th Notification of acceptance: June 12th Delivery of preproceedings version: July 17th Symposium: August 21st-23rd Submission for postproceedings review: October 4th Notification of acceptance: October 11th Camera ready version: October 18th Publication of proceedings: December 23rd ORGANIZERS General chairs: * Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, MO * Jens Weber, University of Victoria, CA Programme chairs: * Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK * Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, CA Programme committee: * Ime Asangansi, University of Oslo, NO * Tom Broens, Mobihealth, NL * Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts, US * David Clifton, University of Oxford, UK * Gerry Douglas, University of Pittsburgh, US * Johannes Faber, IIST, United Nations University, MO * Jozef Hooman, Embedded Systems Institute and Radboud University Nijme= gen, NL * Michaela Huhn, Technische Universit=E4t Clausthal, DE * Shinsako Kiyomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc, JP * Craig Kuziemsky, University of Ottawa, CA * Yngve Lamo, Bergen University College, NO * Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, US * Orlando Loques, Instituto de Computa=E7=E3o, Universidade Federal Flu= minense, BR * Gilbert Maiga, Makerere University, UG * Dominique Mery, Universit=E9 de Lorraine, LORIA, FR * Deshendran Moodley, University of KwaZulu-Natal, ZA * Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, LU * Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, DE * Ita Richardson, Lero, University of Limerick, IE * David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK * Christopher Seebregts, Jembi Health Systems / Medical Research Counci= l, ZA * Bo Song, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, CN * Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, CA Keynote speakers: * Joe Cafazzo, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CA * Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, TW * Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, IN [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]