[AISWorld] Call for papers | HCist 2020 - Int. Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | Algarve, Portugal, October 21-23

[Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

HCist 2020- International Conference on Health and Social Care Information
              Systems and Technologies

an AIS affiliated conference

http://hcist.scika.org

October 21-23, 2020
Hotel Crowne Plaza, Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal)

(special fee for AIS members)
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Dear Colleague,

Please consider submitting your work to HCist 2020 - International 
Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and 
Technologies, an AIS Affiliated Conference.
The chosen venue for the ninth edition of HCist is the Hotel Crowne 
Plaza in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

Important dates:
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Paper Submission deadline: April 18, 2020
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 14, 2020
Final Submission (camera ready) due date: July 11, 2020

Submission types and guidelines:
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Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript 
electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until 
April 18, 2020.

Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and 
industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines 
available at the webpage http://hcist.scika.org

  - 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 two to 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.

Proceedings and publications:
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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 http://hcist.scika.org

Committees:
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General Chair:
   - Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA
Advisory Board:
   - Domingos Alves, Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo University, Brazil
   - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, 
Portugal
   - Ricardo Correia, Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, Portugal
   - Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, University of Sousse, Tunisia
Program Chair:
   - to be announced soon
Organization chair:
   - Emanuel Peres, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Keynote speakers:
   - to be announced soon

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We look forward to welcoming you in our beautiful Vilamoura, Algarve, 
next October.

With our best regards,
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
(on behalf of the organization)