<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">13th</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Conference</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Artificial</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligence</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Medicine</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AIME 2011, 2-6 July 2011<br>
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Bled, Slovenia<br>
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Web site: http://</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">/<a href="http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.aimedicine.info/aime11/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Easychair web site for submission: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011</span></a>.<br>
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Program Committee Chair: Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel<br>
Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,
Slovenia<br>
Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Special Session </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Applications Chairs: Ameen
Abu-Hanna, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Steen Andreassen,
Aalborg University, Denmark</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The European Society for </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Artificial</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligence</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MEdicine</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (AIME), was established </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 1986 with two main goals:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to foster fundamental and applied
research </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the application of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Artificial</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligence</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2.</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">to provide a forum for reporting
significant results achieved at biennial conferences.</span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A major activity of this society has
been a series of international conferences, from Marseille (FR) </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
1987 to Verona (IT) </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 2009, held biennially over the last 22 years.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The AIME'2011 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> will be a
unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of
AI </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Medicine</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> from perspectives of theory, methodology, and application.</span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For this purpose, AIME'2011 will
include invited lectures, full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a
doctoral consortium. The main </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> will include a session dedicated to application of AI
methods </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the day-to-day practice of health care.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> will be held </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Bled, Slovenia.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Program
</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> a glance</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Day 1 (Saturday, July 2): Doctoral
symposium and tutorial(s)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Day 2-4 (July 3,4,5): main AIME </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Day 5 (Wednesday, July 6): workshops
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Invited
Speakers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Manfred
Reichert, Institute of Databases and Information Systems, University of Ulm,
Germany</span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Andrey Rzhetsky, Department of Human
Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Scope</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Original
contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and
applications of AI </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to
medical informatics, healthcare organizational aspects, and to molecular </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">medicine</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<br>
Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties
of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems.<br>
Papers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 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.<br>
Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and
implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their
applicability </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the medical field.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 12pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
scope of the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> includes the following areas:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Knowledge Acquisition and Management</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Decision Support Systems</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Neural Networks and Belief Networks</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Reasoning under Uncertainty</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Case-Based Reasoning</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Planning and Scheduling</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Protocols and Guidelines</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Information Retrieval</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Natural Language Generation and Understanding</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal
Interpretation</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligent Agents</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cognitive Modeling</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 42.25pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Healthcare Process Management</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-left: 72pt; 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="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paper Submission</span></b><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There are two categories of paper submission<br>
1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages)<br>
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are<br>
a. short research paper<br>
b. demonstration of implemented systems<br>
c. late-breaking results (work-</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">-progress)<br>
<br>
Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see<br>
<a href="http://www.springeronline.com/lncs" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.springeronline.com/lncs</span></a>
or <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</span></a>).
<br>
Submission to AIME'2011 will be electronically only. <br>
Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full
paper.<br>
The paper submission web page is available at <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aime2011</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All accepted papers will appear </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">conference</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's <i>"</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lecture Notes </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Computer Science/Lecture Notes </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Artificial</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligence</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> series <span style="color: blue;">(</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/lncs">www.springer.com/lncs</a><span style="color: blue;">).</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and
refine their papers for possible publication </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
the journal </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Artificial</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Intelligence</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Medicine</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Elsevier).<br>
As </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organization
of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above
topic areas.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="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="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Important dates</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Abstract Submission Deadline: January 27, 2011<br>
Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2011<br>
Notification of Acceptance: April 4, 2011<br>
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 22, 2011</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="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;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Special Session </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Applications of AI Methods </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact: Ameen Abu-Hanna (<a href="mailto:a.abu-hanna@amc.uva.nl" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a.abu-hanna@amc.uva.nl</span></a>) and Steen Andreassen (<a href="mailto:sa@hst.aau.dk" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">sa@hst.aau.dk</span></a>)</span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Much of
the literature </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> AI </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Medicine</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 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. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> particular the two types of papers are sought: papers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
substantial fielded applications that improve clinical care and papers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
important lessons learned by research teams developing and implementing
applications or series of applications </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> clinical practice. </span><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: 10pt; 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 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
order to adequately assess their merit. The length and layout of the papers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
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 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the regular track. Papers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
this session, like the other AIME papers, are eligible for selection </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
the planned journal special issue.</span><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";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Submission of proposals for
workshops and tutorials</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</span></a></span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organization of tutorials and
satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.<br>
Proposals for tutorials and workshops have to be sent by email to: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il</span></a></span><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;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Important dates:</span></b><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Proposals for Tutorials: January 27,
2011<br>
Proposals for Workshops: January 27, 2011</span><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: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><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;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Doctoral Consortium</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contact: Carlo Combi (<a href="mailto:carlo.combi@univr.it" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">carlo.combi@univr.it</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 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 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the same area; and it supports students with information </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
academic, research, and industrial careers. </span><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: 10pt; 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 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">on</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 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><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;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Important dates:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">25 March 2011 Paper
submission deadline<br>
11 April 2011 Notification of
acceptance<br>
25 April 2011
Camera-ready papers deadline<br>
02 July 2011 Doctoral
Consortium at AIME 11</span><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: 12pt; 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 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Program
Committee</span></b><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";"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" width="1" border="0" height="1"></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";">Raza Abidi, Canada</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";">Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands
(Special session co-chair)</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";">Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria</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";">Steen Andreassen, Denmark (Special
session co-chair)</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";">Pedro Barahona, Portugal</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";">Riccardo Bellazzi
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting,
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";">Petr Berka, Czech Republic</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";">Isabelle Bichindaritz, 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";">Elizabeth Borycki, Canada</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";">Aziz Boxwala
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting,
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";">Pal de Clercq, The Netherlands</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";">Carlo Combi, Italy (Doctoral
Consortium Chair)</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";">Michel Dojat, France</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";">Henrik Eriksson, Sweden</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";">Catherine Garbay, France</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";">Adela Grando, UK</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";">Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Canada</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";">Peter Haddawy, Macau</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";">Arie Hasman, The Netherlands</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";">Reinhold Haux, Germany</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";">John Holmes, 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";">Werner Horn, Austria</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";">Jim Hunter, UK</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";">Hidde de Jong, France</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";">Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus</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";">Pedro Larranaga, Spain</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";">Nada Lavrac, Slovenia (Local Chair)</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";">Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands</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";">Xiaohui Liu, UK</span></p>
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Austria</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"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><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 dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Organizing
Committee</span></b><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 dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<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>
<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";">Local Organization Chair: Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></p>
<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";">Doctoral Consortium Chair: Carlo Combi, University of
Verona, Verona, Italy</span></p>
<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";">Special Session on Applications Chairs: Ameen Abu-Hanna,
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Steen Andreassen, Aalborg
University, Denmark</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Local
Organizing Committee</span></b><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 dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><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";">Tina Anzic</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";">Damjan Demsar</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";">Miha Grcar</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";">Matjaz Jursic</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";">Petra Kralj Novak</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";">Dragana Miljkovic</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";">Vid Podpecan</span></p>
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</span><br clear="all"></p><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Mor Peleg, PhD<br>Head, Department of Information Systems<br>University of Haifa, 31905, Israel<br>Email: <a href="mailto:morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il" target="_blank">morpeleg@is.haifa.ac.il</a><br>
URL: <a href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/%7Emorpeleg/" target="_blank">http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/</a><br>Phone: 972-4-824-9641<br>Fax: 972-4-828-8522 </div><br>