[AISWorld] CFP - ICOST 2022: 19th International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health - 27-30 June 2022, Paris

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19th International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health

" Participative Urban Health and Healthy Aging in the Age of AI"

27 - 30 June 2022, Paris, France

www.icost-society.org<http://www.icost-society.org>

(Hybrid Conference)





## Important Dates ##

* Paper Submission: 22 February 2022

* Demo Proposal Submission: 22 February 2022

* Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2022

* Demo Acceptance Notification: 30 March 2022

* Camera-Ready and Registration: 15 April 2022

* Conference: 27 – 30 June 2022



ICOST provides a premier venue for the presentation and discussion of research in the design, development, deployment and evaluation of Artificial intelligence for health, Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems.



ICOST 2022 edition will be hosted by the Institut Mines-Télécom, in Paris, France, from 27 to 30 June 2022. The conference theme for this year is "Participative Urban Health and Healthy Ageing in the Age of AI."



After eighteen successful conferences held in France (2003), Singapore (2004), Canada(2005), Northern Ireland (2006), Japan (2007), Singapore (2008), France (2009), Korea (2010), Canada (2011), Italy  (2012),  Singapore (2013), USA (2014),  Switzerland (2015), China (2016), France (2017), Singapore (2018), USA (2019), and Tunisia (2020), ICOST has been established as an interdisciplinary conference for technology and public health experts to tackle emerging challenges related to AI technologies for health and wellbeing.



ICOST proceedings are of the top 25% downloads of Nature- Springer LNCS (over 400k downloads of books and chapters).



Submitted papers to the conference will be blind reviewed by an international committee bringing together a multidisciplinary experts’ renown worldwide in different fields of research (Engineering, clinical, public health, humanities and social sciences, etc.).



## Scope and Aimes ##

ICOST 2022 invites participants to present and discuss their experiences in the understanding, design, development, test- beds deployment, and evaluation of technologies that demonstrate significant contributions in the areas of smart environments, public health policies, chronic disease management, and assistive technologies focused on indoor living spaces (e.g., homes, nursing homes and assistive living facilities) as well as the outdoors (e.g., urban smart spaces or the entire smart city).

ICOST has a specific theme each year. The theme for ICOST 2022 edition is “IoT, AI and Data Analytics for pervasive smart care delivery.”

ICOST 2022 is especially interested in receiving submissions, focused on technologies, humanities and social sciences, clinical, and public health for an Enhanced Wellbeing and Health for all nations.

ICOST 2022 topics include, but are not limited to:



Public Health Policy and Clinical Studies

* Public health and urban Data Collection and Processing

* Policy and Guidelines for Public Health and Quality of Life in Smart City

* Urban design for wellbeing and e-health

* Design and Future Urban Cities for wellbeing Health in All Policies (HiAP)

* Electronic Health Records and Standards

* E-Health and Chronic Diseases Management

* Health Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis Healthcare Systems Use and Evaluation

* Human Factors, Ethics and Usability of Healthcare Systems



Emerging Technologies Applied for Healthcare

* Artificial Intelligence for Participatory and Personalized

* Health Deep learning for health and wellbeing

* Big Data analytics for public health

* Blockchain applied for healthcare

* Internet of Things (IoT) for smart living and e-Health

* Decision Support Systems for Healthcare

* Data protection / Privacy / Security Issues



Systems and Platforms for Healthcare

* Healthcare Preventive and Predictive Systems

* Protective systems/devices against common and emerging infectious diseases.

* Pervasive Health Systems and Services

* Smart Homes / Home Networks / Residential Gateways Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing

* Wearable Sensors / Integrated Micro/Nano Systems / Health Monitoring

* Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation

* Assistive Technology for ageing and frail people

* Participatory Telehealth systems

* Trusted systems and verification for health and wellness



Human Computer Interaction

* Human-Machine Interfaces

* Coaching and Urban Gaming for e-Health

* Virtual Personal Assistant for e-Health

* Behavior Modeling and Change

* Supportive Mobile e-Health



Robotic Solutions for Healthcare

* Collaborative Robotics (Cobots)

* Medical and Healthcare Robotics

* Diagnosis and Therapy Robotics

* Rehabilitation Robotics

* Assistance Robots

* Disability Robots

* Surgical Robots

* Personal Robotics and smart Wheelchairs



Special Sessions Proposals

Proposals for special sessions or plenary panels addressing any of the following specific topics are especially welcome:

* Studies detailing large-scale service deployment and impact evaluation

* The application of cost-effective and readily available ‘everyday’ technologies to support people with chronic conditions and others with cognitive disabilities at home, school or work

* Health economic evaluation of technology-based solutions

* Societal impact and policy formulation

* Challenges for smart living environments and inclusive communities

* Technology solutions to inspire policy makers



## Submission ##



There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers, posters, case studies, research and projects exhibits and technology demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers and extended abstracts in any of the areas of interest for this conference as well as proposals for Special Sessions. The submission for evaluation should be in the form of 12 pages for full paper and 4 pages for extended abstracts written in English.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer in Open Access.

No registration extra fees will be applied for Open Access publication. Submitted papers shall not exceed 12 pages and must follow the guidelines found on the conference website:

http://www.icost-society.org/authorinstructions.html



* Paper Submission:

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF and Word/Latex format at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost2022



ICOST Volumes are published by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series which are indexed by the EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), Scopus and ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI

Web of Science. The source can be found here: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0



Accepted papers will be published by Springer in Open Access.

Selected papers will be invited to submit extended version to be published in a Special Issue of Sensors-MDPI Open-Access Journal (Impact Factor 3.031).



* Demo proposals Submission

Researchers and industry experts with significant contributions in the areas of smart cities, urban design, smart homes, health telematics, chronic disease management, and assistive technologies are encouraged to participate and present research prototypes or innovative systems to ICOST participants. ICOST 2022 invites interested researchers and industry experts to send a description of the system that will be demonstrated, and a short presentation of the research teams/industrial involved in the demo. The description should be limited to one page and should be submitted to: icost2022 at easychair.org.



Authors interested in providing a short demonstration in conjunction with paper presentations should append a section in their papers with the heading: 'demonstration description' detailing the scenario to be demonstrated.



The organization committee will review the proposals and select a limited number of demos. ICOST provides free space for the selected demos especially for the presenters who are registered as regular conference attendees.



## Conference Committee

* Conference General Chair

Prof. Mounir Mokhtari | Institut Mines-Télécom, France



* Conference Associate Chair

Dr. Antoine DeMarassé | French Ministry of Health



* Conference Program Committee Chairs

Prof. Bessam Abdulrazak | University of Sherbrooke, Canad

A/Prof. Hamdi Aloulou | Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia/Institut Mines-Telecom, France



* Conference Scientific Committee

Prof. Mounir Mokhtari | Institut Mines-Télécom, France

Prof. Bessam Abdulrazak | University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Prof. Jose Pagan | New York University, USA

Prof. Maria Teresa Arredondo | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

A/Prof. Maria Fernanda Cabrera | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Prof. Mohamed Jmaiel | Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia

Prof. Dong Jin Song | National University of Singapore, Singapore

A/Prof. Hamdi Aloulou | Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia/Institut Mines-Telecom, France

Prof. Jong bae Kim | Yonsei University, Korea

Prof. Timo Jämsä | Oulu University, Finland

Prof. Sun gyoung Lee |  Kyung Hee University, Korea

Dr. Daby Sow | IBM Watson, New York, USA

Prof. Hisato Kobayashi | Hosei University, Japan

Prof. Daqing Zhang | Telecom SudParis, France