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<font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Call for Papers</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">6</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">th </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">(INFORMS DM-HI 2011)</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">November
12, 2011, Charlotte, North Carolina</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"><a href="http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/" target="_blank">http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">The Data Mining (DM), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), and Health Applications (HA) Subdivisions of the Institute
for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) are jointly
organizing the 6th Pre-conference Workshop on Data Mining and Health
Informatics (INFORMS DM-HI 2011) on November 12, 2011 at Charlotte, North
Carolina, in conjunction with the 2011 INFORMS Annual Conference. The theme of
the workshop centers on health informatics.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Foundations
of Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">AI/DM
in Operations Research and Operations Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Machine
Learning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Statistical
Learning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Bioinformatics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Pattern
Recognition</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Natural
Language Processing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Intelligent
Information Retrieval</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Visualization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Healthcare
DM and Knowledge Discovery</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Healthcare
Logistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Healthcare
Simulations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Patient
Flow Modeling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Medical
Imaging</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Medical
Decision Making</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Biosurveillance,
Healthcare, and Public Health Surveillance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Disease
Modeling and Prevention</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Disease
Spread and Transmission Simulations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Multi-agent
Systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Risk
Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Global
Health</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Biomedical
Simulation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Case
Studies</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">On
behalf of the INFORMS DM-HI 2011 Organizing Committee, we would like to invite
you to submit an abstract, not exceeding 200 words, for review. Authors of accepted
abstracts will be expected to give a presentation at the Workshop and submit a
short paper, not exceeding 6 pages, for the Workshop Proceedings, to be
published on a CD</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Time line:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">July
15: 200-word abstracts due</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Aug
05: Acceptance decisions sent out</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">September
30: Proceedings papers due</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">November
12: Workshop</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica-BoldOblique; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Submit </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica-BoldOblique; color: black;">abstracts and papers </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica-BoldOblique; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">online at:</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"><a href="http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/dmhi.html" target="_blank">http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/dmhi.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Submission policy:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Submissions can describe work at
any stage of publication (unpublished, submitted, accepted or published). If
the work has already been published it is essential to check with the publisher
to be certain that a submission to INFORMS does not violate the publisher’s policy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">For
inquiries, please contact </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Program co-Chairs:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Peter Qian</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"> (University of
Wisconsin-Madison):<a href="mailto:peterq@stat.wisc.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">peterq@stat.wisc.edu</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Yilu Zhou</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"><span> </span>(George Washington University): <span> </span><a href="mailto:yzhou@gwu.edu" target="_blank">yzhou@gwu.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">Cynthia<span> </span>Rudin</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;"> (MIT): <a href="mailto:rudin@mit.edu" target="_blank">rudin@mit.edu</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Management Committee:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Kwok-Leung Tsui </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">(Georgia
Institute of Technology)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Tory Chen </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">(University of Texas
at Arlington)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">George Runger </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">(Arizona State
University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Bold; color: black;">Tom Au </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times-Roman; color: black;">(AT&T Labs)</span></p>