[AISWorld] HCist 2018 - Call for Papers - Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-23

[Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha]

-------  Call for papers
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-------  HCist 2018
-------  International Conference on Health and Social Care
-------  Information Systems and Technologies
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-------  an AIS affiliated conference
-------  Lisbon, Portugal
-------  November 21-23, 2018
-------  hcist.scika.org
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-------  Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2018
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It is our great pleasure to invite you to HCist 2018 - International 
Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and 
Technologies, an AIS Affiliated Conference.
Lisbon, one of the most attractive cities in Europe, was the city chosen 
to host in a remarkable way the seventh edition of HCist.

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Important dates
Submission deadline: April 30, 2018
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 18, 2018
Final Submission due date: July 17, 2018

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Submission types and guidelines

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript 
electronically at the Conference webpage (http: / /hcist.scika.org) 
until April 30, 2018.

Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and 
industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines 
available at the conference webpage

      -  A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, 
including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have 
between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines 
provided at the conference webpage);
      -  A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing 
research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length);
      -  A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models 
at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length);
      -  An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, 
applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope 
and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages).

All conference submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed.

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Proceedings and publications

Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been 
published before, and not be under review for any other conference or 
publication.

All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia 
Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and Conference 
Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse 
ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a 
conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for 
publication in international journals and in edited books. For more 
detailed information, please visit the conference webpage.

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The city of Lisbon is rich in architecture. Romanesque, Gothic, 
Manueline, Baroque, Modern and Postmodern constructions can be found all 
over Lisbon. Lisbon is recognised as a alpha-level global city by the 
Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group because of its 
importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, 
international trade, education and tourism.
Lisbon has two sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site: Belém 
Tower and Jerónimos Monastery. Furthermore, in 1994, Lisbon was the 
European Capital of Culture and in 1998 organised the Expo '98 (1998 
Lisbon World Exposition).
Furthermore, Lisbon was awarded as the World's Leading City Break 
Destination 2017