[UAI] IDAMAP 2001 Call for papers

From: Riccardo Bellazzi (ric@aim.unipv.it)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 08:34:50 PST

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    First Call for Papers

    INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
    A Workshop at the Medinfo2001
    London, UK, September 4th, 2001

    http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/idamap2001

    GENERAL INFORMATION

    IDAMAP-2001, a one day Medinfo2001 Workshop, will be held in
    London, UK, on Tuesday, 4th of September, 2001. This is the sixth
    IDAMAP Workshop: the former ones were held in Budapest in 1996,
    Nagoya in 1997, Brighton in 1998, Washington DC in 1999, and
    Berlin in 2000.

    Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have
    the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in
    an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among
    researchers and practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a
    genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample
    time will be allotted for general discussion.

    TOPIC

    A large amount of data is currently being collected in
    bio-medicine for both experimental and observational purposes.
    This automatic data collection pushes towards the development of
    methods and tools able to handle and analyze data in a
    computer-supported fashion, and to support evidence to be
    exploited in all activities of the biomedical field. In the
    majority of the application areas, this task cannot be
    accomplished without using the available knowledge on the domain
    or on the data analysis process. This need becomes crucial in
    clinical applications, since medical decision making needs to be
    supported by arguments based on basic medical and pharmacological
    knowledge.

    The topics of the workshop are computational methods for
    biomedical data analysis that aim to narrow the gap between data
    gathering and data comprehension and to support the use and
    exploitation of observational and retrospective data.

    In terms of methodology, topics include, but are not limited to,

    - - data mining techniques, including machine learning, clustering,
      neural networks, etc.,
    - - other techniques for construction of predictive models,
    - - data visualization,
    - - interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of
      temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction),
    - - knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data
      analysis techniques,
    - - utility of background knowledge in data analysis,
    - - integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within
      biomedical information systems.

    Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent
    data analysis techniques are invited, especially those that cover:

    - - analysis of medical and health-care data;
    - - analysis of pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing;
      discovery of new drug compounds, pharmacodynamical modeling;
    - - exploration of bioinformatics data (protein structure
      prediction, functional genomics, analysis of gene expression
      data);
    - - outcomes analysis.

    We further encourage the submission of papers that address question
    like:

    - - What are the application classes that motivate the usage of
      certain methods?
    - - What is the potential applicability (and generalizability) of
      proposed solutions?
    - - What is the level of integration with other methods and tools
      to achieve real working systems?
    - - What kind of knowledge is needed, used and/or extracted by the
      IDA and DM methods?
    - - What is the role of prior knowledge in data analysis?
    - - How should the available knowledge be represented?

    SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

    The scientific program of the workshop will consist of
    presentations of invited and accepted papers and panel
    discussion. Papers are invited both on methodological issues of
    intelligent data analysis as well as on specific applications in
    biomedicine and pharmacology.

    The invited speakers and the topics of the panel discussion will
    be announced in subsequent CFPs.

    DEADLINES

    May 18, 2001 Papers submitted
    June 8, 2001 Notification of acceptance
    June 29, 2001 Final version of accepted papers received

    SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

    The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written
    in English to the workshop chair, Riccardo Bellazzi. Authors
    should send an electronic submission in either PDF, PostScript or
    MS Word format to idamap2000@fri.uni-lj.si no later than May 18,
    2001. The length of long papers is of about 5000 words (10 pages)
    and length of short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages).

    Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 8, 2001. Papers
    will appear as separate workshop notes. A subsequent publication
    of selected papers in peer-reviewed Journal is planned.

    REGISTRATION

    The registration fee for the IDAMAP meeting will be Sterling
    Pounds 30 per person. The fee for this meeting must be paid -
    without any deductions - directly to Peregrine (details on
    payment and registration process will be announced later this
    year and will be posted on IDAMAP web page,
    http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/idamap2001). Peregrine will provide
    each delegate with proof of registration. Peregrine is providing
    all hotel accommodation for Medinfo (see
    http://www.medinfo2001.org/) and can offer this same service to
    any of the IDAMAP delegates.

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    - - Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy (chair)
    - - Blaz Zupan, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia (co-chair)
    - - Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, U.K. (co-chair)
    - - Ameen Abu-Hanna, Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam, The
    Netherlands
    - - Noriaki Aoki, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
    - - Lars Asker, Stockholm University, Sweden
    - - Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria
    - - Elpida Keravnou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
    - - Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
    - - Cristiana Larizza, University of Pavia, Italy
    - - Nada Lavrac, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    - - Peter Lucas, University of Aberdeen, UK
    - - David Marrero, University of Indiana
    - - Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    - - Christian Popow, University of Vienna, Austria
    - - Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
    - - Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    - --
    Riccardo Bellazzi, PhD, Assistant Professor
    Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Pavia
    via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy, tel:39-0382-505511, fax:39-0382-505373
    e-mail:ric@aim.unipv.it, http://aim.unipv.it/~ric



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