[Announcements] IEEE ICTS4eHealth: submission deadline extended - Natal, Brazil

Dear All,

      Due to many requests, we have extended the paper submission
      deadline to April 16, 2018 (firm and final).

    

    

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    ICTS4eHealth 2018 - 3rd edition of the IEEE International Workshop
    on ICT Solutions for e-Health

    Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention, Natal, Brazil

    June 25-28 2018 - www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it 

    

    in conjunction with the Twenty-Third IEEE Symposium on Computers and
    Communications 

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    MISSION: 

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    e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been
    attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new
    emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud
    computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence,
    is attracting the interest of many researchers.

    

    The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods typical of
    Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very
    prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good
    solutions to many practical healthcare applications.

    

    For instance, health monitoring, health data storage, health data
    collection, mobile health, pervasive health, healthcare monitoring,
    telemedicine, context-aware computing, ubiquitous computing,
    processing health data in the cloud, securing health data in the
    cloud and Assistive Technology (AT) are areas of interest that are
    being addressed using cloud computing and IoT techniques. On the
    other hand, several challenging issues have raised due to the
    adoption of such emerging technologies. These include the quality of
    health data, the ability to retrieve information and use it in
    health context, as for example in tasks related to machine learning,
    knowledge discovery, decision support, regression, forecasting,
    optimization, feature selection, and additionally privacy and
    security issues of health data while being processed in the cloud,
    availability of health data, models of context and tele-monitoring
    of contextual applications.

    

    ICTS4eHealth 2018 is the third edition of the International IEEE
    Workshop dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health, especially based
    on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational
    Intelligence.

    

    The workshop will bring together researchers from academia,
    industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the
    state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in
    connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT
    and Computational Intelligence technique in the area of eHealth.

    

    TOPICS: 

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    - Cloud computing applications for eHealth 

    - Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth 

    - Assistive Technology (AT). 

    - Informatization, Management and Organization of BME Environments 

    - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine 

    - Communication, Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems 

    - Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems 

    - Biosensors and Sensor Networks 

    - Advanced Bio-signal Processing 

    - Distributed BME Applications 

    - Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics 

    - e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health 

    - Assisted Living 

    - Smartphones in BME Applications 

    - Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health 

    - Computer Aided Diagnostics 

    - Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods 

    - Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation 

    - Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics 

    - Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques 

    - Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches 

    - Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME 

    - Human Responses in Extreme Environments 

    - Other Emerging Topics in BME 

    - E-Accessibility 

    - Web accessibility 

    - Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies 

    - Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired 

    - Cloud computing and AT 

    - Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient
    health data 

    - User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies 

    - Usability of assistive technologies 

    - Computer vision in AT 

    - User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies 

    - Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies 

    - Experience from real world assistive environment deployment 

    - Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments 

    - Healthcare modeling and simulation 

    - Knowledge discovery and decision support 

    - Biomedical data processing 

    - Wearable devices 

    - Sensor-based mHealth applications 

    

    The use of Soft Computing/Computational Intelligence methods in
    facing problems in the above topics is highly welcome, although not
    compulsory. 

    

    

    PAPER SUBMISSION: 

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    Authors are invited to submit their papers written in English in
    IEEE double-column format (IEEE standard conference templates).
    Papers can be either full, with a maximum length of six (6) printed
    pages, or short, with a maximum length of four (4) printed pages. In
    both cases, the number of pages includes figures, tables &
    references. Submissions should contain original material and not be
    previously published, or currently submitted for consideration
    elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed for scientific quality by the
    Technical Program Committee.

    

    All papers should be submitted via EDAS. The link for the submission
    is: 

    https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24652 

    

    Paper submission implies the willingness of at least one author to
    register, at the regular rate (non-student), and present the paper.
    The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2018 Proceedings
    and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
    The IEEE ICTS4eHealth 2018 Workshop is using the EDAS Conference
    Management System to manage the paper submission process.

    

    

    BEST PAPER AWARD:

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    A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s)
    of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based
    on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical
    quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the
    members of the Program Committee.

    

    

    IMPORTANT DATES: 

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    Submission deadline: April 16, 2018 (extended - firm deadline!)

    Notification of paper acceptance: May 07, 2018

    Submission of camera-ready papers: May 14, 2018

    

    

    VENUE: 

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    Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention, Natal, Brazil

    http://www.praiamarnatal.com.br/

    

    

    FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION http://icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/