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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First Announcement of the<br>
<br>
13th Conference on: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine<br>
<br>
AIME 11, 2-6 July 2011<br>
<br>
Bled, Slovenia<br>
<br>
Web site: <a href="http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/">http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
The AIME 11 conference will be held in Bled, Slovenia starting from 02/07/11.
AIME 11 will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international
state of the art of AI in biomedical research from both perspectives of
methodology and application. AIME'2011 will include invited lectures, full and
short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The main
conference will include a session dedicated to application of AI methods in the
day-to-day practice of health care. Please see the conference web site for
details.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
<br>
Program Committee Chair: Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jožef Stefan
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of
Verona, Verona, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Special
Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen Abu-Hana, University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands and Steen Andreassen, Aalborg University, Denmark</span></p>
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<br>
<br>
<br>
1) INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
<br>
We are happy to announce our keynote speakers:<br>
<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Manfred Reichert, Institute of Databases and Information
Systems, University of Ulm, Germany</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Andrey Rzhetsky, Department of Human Genetics, University of
Chicago, Illinois, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
2) CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
Contact: Mor Peleg (<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</a></span></u>)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>
27 January 2011 Abstract Submission deadline<br>
<br>
3 February 2011 <span style=""> </span>Paper
Submission deadline<br>
<br>
4 April 2011 <span style=""> </span>Notification of acceptance<br>
<br>
22 April 2011 Camera-ready papers
deadline<br>
<br>
02-06 July 2011 <span style=""> </span>AIME 07
Scientific Sessions</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
Original long and short papers are sought on the development of theory, techniques,
systems, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the exploitation of AI
approaches to healthcare organizational aspects, and to molecular medicine. Contributions
to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI
methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.<br>
Papers on techniques and methodologies should describe the development or the
extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions
and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the
state of the art. Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements,
design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss
their applicability in the medical field. Application papers should describe
the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and
should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical
benefits of the system.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
<br>
The scope of the conference includes topics such as: Knowledge Acquisition and
Management, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Biomedical
Ontologies and Terminologies, Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks and
Belief Networks, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Temporal and Spatial Representation
and Reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Protocols and
Guidelines, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Generation and
Understanding, Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation,
Intelligent Agents, Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems, Cognitive Modeling,
Healthcare Process Management<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
3) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF AI METHODS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact:
Ameen Abu-Hana (<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:a.abu-hanna@amc.uva.nl">a.abu-hanna@amc.uva.nl</a></span></u>)
and Steen Andreassen (<a href="mailto:sa@hst.aau.dk">sa@hst.aau.dk</a>)<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Much
of the literature on AI in Medicine pertains to the question “Does the system
work?” while the questions “Does it help?” and “Why it succeeds or fails?”
receive far less attention. This session is dedicated to two kinds of papers
addressing these latter two questions. In particular the two types of papers are
sought: papers on substantial fielded applications that improve clinical care and
papers on important lessons learned by research teams developing and
implementing applications or series of applications in clinical practice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Authors
should specifically submit to this track (the submission system will provide a
way to indicate this). Only long papers should be submitted in order to
adequately assess their merit. The length and layout of the papers in the track
is exactly the same as any other AIME paper. The papers are initially reviewed
for this track by the session organizers. Dates for notification are the same
as for papers for papers in the regular track. Papers in this session, like the
other AIME papers, are eligible for selection in the planned journal special
issue.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 89.85pt 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4) CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS<br>
<br>
Contact: Mor Peleg (<u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</a></span></u>)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>
27 January 2011 Deadline for proposals<br>
<br>
10 February 2011 Notification of acceptance<br>
<br>
22 April 2011 Camera-ready
materials<br>
<br>
02 Jul 2011
Tutorials at AIME 07<br>
<br>
06 Jul 2011
Workshops at AIME 07<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Workshops will address selected technical topics. They should have an informal
atmosphere and will last for half or a whole day with ample time allotted for
general discussion. A workshop will typically attract 20 to 40 participants.
Tutorials focus on topics relating to theoretical and applied aspects of AI in medicine.
They will last for 4 hours and will typically attract up to 20 participants.<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
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<br>
<br>
5) CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS<br>
<br>
Contact: Carlo Combi (<a href="mailto:carlo.combi@univr.it">carlo.combi@univr.it</a>)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>
07 March 2011 Paper submission
deadline<br>
<br>
08 April 2011 Notification of
acceptance<br>
<br>
22 April 2011 Camera-ready
papers deadline<br>
<br>
02 July 2011 Doctoral
Consortium at AIME 11<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
The aim of the AIME 2011 Doctoral Consortium is to support the research done by
doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent
scientists in the AIM field. The DC provides a forum for students to present
their current research and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
It facilitates networking among Ph.D. students and senior researchers working
in the same area; and it supports students with information on academic,
research, and industrial careers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The event will be an ‘advice-giving’ session rather than an
opportunity for doctoral students to present finished work. The focus will be on
the early stages of the PhD work. Therefore the consortium will elicit submissions
consisting of work plans rather than "papers". The number of selected
papers is limited to only 6. The event will include a tutorial which will be of
common interest.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Program
Committee Chair: Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel</span></p>
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Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></p>
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Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy</span></p>
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Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen Abu-Hana, University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands and Steen Andreassen, Aalborg University, Denmark</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tina Anzic</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Petra Kralj Novak</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Vid Podpecan</span></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mor Peleg, PhD<br>Head, Department of Management Information Systems<br>University of Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>Email: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</a><br>
URL: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/</a><br>Phone: 972-4-824-9641<br>Fax: 972-4-828-8522 <br>