[UAI] CfP: ECAI 2002 WS - IDAMAP 2002

From: Peter Lucas (plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 11:28:48 PST

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           Workshop held in conjunction with ECAI 2002, Lyon, France

               ** INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND **
                    ** PHARMACOLOGY 2002 (IDAMAP 2002) **

           (Web version of the CfP: http://idamap.org/idamap2002)

     Peter Lucas (Chair), Lars Asker (Co-Chair), Silvia Miksch (Co-chair)

    SCHEDULE

     o Paper submission deadline - 22 March, 2002
     o Notification to Authors - 12 April, 2002
     o Camera-ready papers - 10 May, 2002
     o Workshops at ECAI 2002 - 22 or 23 July 2002

    SCOPE

    The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for
    data analysis in *medicine*, *biology* and *pharmacology* that somehow
    exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be
    available at different stages of the data analysis and model-building
    process.

    Nowadays, machine-learning tools provide an effective means to derive
    understandable diagnostic and prognostic rules; Bayesian structure and
    parameter learning methods are capable of capturing the (in)dependence
    structure hidden in data and of learning and updating the model's
    parameters; clustering and instance-based learning methods, like
    case-based reasoning, may represent a crucial help to physicians in
    their decision making process; the interpretation of time-ordered data
    through the derivation and revision of temporal trends and other types
    of temporal data abstraction provides a powerful instrument for event
    detection and prognosis; data visualisation is increasingly becoming
    an essential element in the overall process of knowledge discovery in
    databases.

    In the workshop, special attention will be given to systems that aim
    at integrating the above mentioned techniques to promote the
    construction of effective decision models to support medical decision
    making, the discovery of meaningful patterns and structures in
    biomolecules and bioassays, the design of new drug compounds,
    discovery of drugs, etc. In addition, issues related to automated
    data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of
    computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, outcomes
    analysis, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring,
    and so on are covered in the workshop.

    SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

    The scientific programme of the workshop will consist of presentations
    of accepted papers and panel discussions.

    Papers are invited both on methodological issues of intelligent data
    analysis as well as on specific applications in medicine and
    pharmacology. The preferred length of papers is 10 pages. Papers
    should in any case explicitly address the topics of the workshop,
    explaining:

     o what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted;
     o why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their
       problem;
     o how they have represented the available knowledge;
     o how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge.

    Panel discussions will be organised in two phases: the first will
    identify clusters of basic approaches presented to intelligently
    analyse data, the second one will deal with discussions initiated by
    participants.

    WHY THE WORKSHOP IS OF INTEREST

    In all human activities, automatic data collection is driving the
    development of tools able to handle and analyse data in a
    computer-supported fashion. In the majority of application areas, this
    cannot be accomplished without using the available knowledge of the
    domain or of the data analysis process. This requirement becomes
    essential in biomedical applications, since biomedical decision making
    needs to be supported by arguments based on basic biomedical and
    pharmacological knowledge.

    SUBMISSION FORMAT OF PAPERS

    The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in
    English to the workshop chair, Peter Lucas. Authors should send an
    electronic submission in either PDF or Postscript to
    idamap2002@csd.abdn.ac.uk not later than 22nd March, 2002. The length
    of long papers is about 6000 words (5 pages) and the length of short
    papers is about 3000 words (2-3 pages).

    Papers should be formatted in accordance with the style as proposed by
    ECAI. Instructions for authors are available at

    http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/en/cfp/latex/latex2e

    This site also includes a LaTeX style file and an example LaTeX document.

    ORGANISING COMMITTEE

    Peter Lucas (Chair)
    Department of Computing Science
    University of Aberdeen
    Aberdeen AB24 3UE
    Scotland, UK
    Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
    E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl, plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk
    WWW: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~lucas
         http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas

    Lars Asker (Co-chair)
    Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
    Stockholm University/ KTH
    Forum 100
    SE-164 40 Kista
    Sweden
    Tel: +46 8674 7002; Fax +46 8703 9025
    E-mail: asker@dsv.su.se

    Silvia Miksch (Co-chair)
    Vienna University of Technology
    Institute of Software Technology (IFS)
    Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
    A-1040 Vienna, Austria
    Tel: +43 1 58801 18824, +43-1-58801-18801
    Fax: +43 1 58801 18899
    E-mail: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
    WWW: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia

    SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

    Ameen Abu-Hanna, Netherlands
    Steen Andreassen, Denmark
    Lars Asker, Sweden
    Riccardo Belazzi, Italy
    Marie-Odile Cordier, France
    Luc Dehaspe, Belgium
    Javier Diez, Spain
    Michel Dojat, France
    Linda van der Gaag, Netherlands
    Catherine Garbay, France
    Peter Hammond, UK
    Werner Horn, Austria
    Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
    Jan Komorovski, Norway
    Pedro Laranaga, Spain
    Nada Lavrac, Slovenia
    Cristiana Larizza, Italy
    Xiaohui Liu, UK
    Peter Lucas, UK
    Silvia Miksch, Austria
    Lucila Ohno-Machado, USA
    Rene Quiniou, France
    Marco Ramoni, USA
    Paola Sebastiani, USA
    Yuval Shahar, Israel
    Stefan Wrobel, Germany
    Blaz Zupan, Slovenia

    PRIMARY CONTACT

    Peter Lucas
    Dept. of Computing Science
    University of Aberdeen
    Aberdeen AB24 3UE
    Scotland, UK
    Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
    E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl

    PREVIOUS IDAMAP WORKSHOPS

    IDAMAP 2002 is a follow-up to the following successful workshops in
    the IDAMAP series:

     o ECAI'96 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP'96, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996 (N. Lavrac,
       E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn, C. Larizza
       - PC members)

     o IJCAI '97 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP'97, Nagoya, Japan, August 1997 (N. Lavrac,
       E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn - PC
       members)

     o ECAI'98 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP'98, Brighton, UK, August 1998 (R. Bellazzi,
       B. Zupan - co-chairs, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu,
       S. Andreassen, W. Horn, S. Miksch - PC members)

     o AMIA'99 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP'99, Washington, DC, USA, November 1999
       (Y. Shahar, S. Miksch - co-chairs, S. Anand, L. Asker, R. Bellazzi,
       B. Zupan, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu, C. Popow,
       S. Andreassen, W. Horn, - PC members)

     o ECAI 2000 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 2000 (Nada
       Lavrac, Silvia Miksch - co-chairs, Sarabjot Anand; Steen
       Andreassen; Lars Asker; Riccardo Bellazzi; Werner Horn; Elpida
       Keravnou; Cristiana Larizza; Nada Lavrac; Xiaohui Liu; Christian
       Popow; Yuval Shahar; Blaz Zupan - PCmembers)

     o Medinfo 2001 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
       Pharmacology IDAMAP 2001, London, England, September 2001 (Riccardo
       Bellazzi, Blas Zupan, Xiaohui Liu, - co-chairs, Ameen Abu-Hanna,
       Noriaki Aoki, Lars Asker, Werner Horn, Elpida Keravnou, Isaac
       Kohane, Nada Lavrac, Cristiana Larizza, Peter Lucas, David Marrero,
       Silvia Miksch, Christian Popow, Marco Ramoni, Yuval Shahar, - PC
       members)

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    Peter Lucas
    Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
    Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
    Tel: +44 1224 273829/272296; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
    E-mail: plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk; URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas



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