CALL FOR
PAPERS
and
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
HIMS'15
International Conference on Health
Informatics
and Medical Systems
July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
Paper Submission
Deadline: March 31, 2015
You are invited
to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers
will be
published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will
also be made
available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science
citation
databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition, like
prior years,
extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the
conference will
appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include:
Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others; a list that includes a
small subset of
such books and journal special issues appear in this
document); some
of these books and journal special issues have already
received the top
25% downloads in their respective fields.
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,
workshops,
poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,
same location
and dates: July 27-30, 2015.
SCOPE: Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Prologue: Health Informatics and Medical
Systems is an important
area that is at the intersection of
information science, computer
science, social science, behavioral science
and health care. This
field is mainly concerned with the resources,
devices, and methods
required to optimize the acquisition,
storage, retrieval, processing
and use of information in health and
biomedicine. Health informatics
is driven by computers, information and
communication systems. It is
a multi-disciplinary field that covers a
wide spectrum of sub-fields.
It combines the problem solving skills of
computer scientists with
health care professionals and health care
givers. The list of topics
of interest that appears below is by no
means exhaustive.
o Information Technologies for Healthcare
Delivery and Management
o Health Data Acquisition, Management and
Visualization
o Healthcare Knowledge Management and Decision
Support
o Healthcare Modeling and Simulation
o Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine
Learning
o Health Information Systems
o Clinical Informatics
o Integrated Data Repository
o Computational Health Informatics
o Community Health Informatics
o Informatics for Education & Research in
Health and Medicine
o Imaging Science
o Collaboration tools such as social media, web
apps, patient education
o Healthcare Communication Networks and
Environments
o Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
o Computer-Aided Surgery
o Computers in Medical Education
o Haptics in Healthcare
o Health Care Information Systems
o Implant Technology and Systems
o Interactive 3-D Models
o Medical Physics
o Neural, Sensory Systems and Rehabilitation
o Patient Diagnosis Methods
o Patient Monitoring Systems
o Regenerative Medicine
o Systems Physiology
o Telemedicine
o Therapeutic Engineering and Systems
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 30,
2015: Workshop / Session Proposals
March 31,
2015: Submission of full papers (about
7 pages)
April 24,
2015: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 15,
2015: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 27-30,
2015: International Conference on Health
Informatics
and Medical Systems
(HIMS'15)
SUBMISSION OF
DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the
evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by
the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and
references.) All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,
the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting
format to prepare their final papers for publication; these
formatting instructions
appear at: http://world-comp.org
and they
conform to the
two-column IEEE style format). Papers must not have been
previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
postal address, and email address for each author as well
as a maximum of
5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper.
The first page should also identify the name of the
Contact/Corresponding
author together with his/her professional email
address. A 100
to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
Authors are to
conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The
document for the
Code of Ethics is available on the submission web site.)
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would
be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this
would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers
whose authors
include a member of the conference program committee will
be evaluated
using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical
papers will not
be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and
will also be
made available online. The printed proceedings/books will
be available for
distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings
will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data.
The proceedings/books of the federated congress that
this conference
is part of have been evaluated for inclusion into major
science citation
index databases. We are happy to report that so far,
the evaluation
board of science citation index databases have approved
the indexing,
integrating, and inclusion of the following conference
tracks into
relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include,
among others:
Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others):
BIOCOMP, DMIN,
GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM. All
proceedings are
also approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com),
one of the
largest subject index systems.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each
series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science
and Applied Computing) and another with Springer
publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18
months), a
significant number of authors of accepted papers of our
congress, will
be given the opportunity to submit the extended version
of their papers
for publication consideration in these books. We
anticipate
having between 10 and 20 books a year in each of these
book series
projects. Each book in each series will be subject to
Elsevier and
Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
a very small
subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have
been published
based on the extended versions of our congress papers,
see below:
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition.
O. Springer:
Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems. Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and
Biology, Vol 696.
O. BMC
Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15, Supp. 17);
Impact Factor: 2.67.
O. Springer:
Advances in Computational Biology. Series: Advances in
Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 680.
O. BMC Systems
Biology: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp.
3); Impact Factor: 2.85.
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Information and
Communications Technology).
O. BMC Medical
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp.
1); Impact Factor: 3.91.
O. Springer:
Transactions on Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence (multiple books).
O. BMC Genomics:
Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact
Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing
(multiple books.)
O. BMC Genomics:
Special Journal Issue "Advances in Big Data Analytics",
(Vol. 15, Supp. 11); Impact Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems Biology Publisher.
Some of these
books and journal special issues have already received
the top 25%
downloads in their respective fields - we already have a
number of
Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline.
SUBMISSION OF
POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers
can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions
that appear in section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR
EVALUATION -
except that the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the
first page, the
author should state that "This paper is being submitted
as a
poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published as such, if
and only if the
author of the accepted poster wishes to do so.
PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks. A track is a session,
a workshop, or a
symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at
least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be
responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting
papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs
will appear as
Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on
the cover of the
printed books (and would be indexed in science databases
as such). Track
chairs who attract a sufficient number of solid papers
can propose to
edit books with a major publisher based on the extended
versions of the
papers accepted in their tracks (the conference will
facilitate and
help such track chairs to get the publisher's approval).
Proposals to
organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should
include the
following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer,
his/her
biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of
the track (also
mention the name of this conference), and a short
description on
how the track will be advertised (in most cases, track
proposers
solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
known to the
track proposer). E-mail your track proposal to
editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track
proposals
as soon as
possible (see IMPORTANT DATES.)
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of
the congress
included research labs and centers affiliated with major
government
agencies, universities, and institutions from all continents.
Sponsors
At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel
Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Microsoft
Research; The
International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics;
International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; Chapter of
Associations from
five countries; US Chapter of World Academy of Science;
High Performance
Computing for Nanotechnology; World Academy of Biomedical
Sciences and
Technologies (UK); HoIP Telecom (UK); Hodges Health; OMG;
Aldebaran
Robotics Inc.; Federated Council on Science and Education;
Science
Publications and many others.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering
Committee of the
federated congress that this conference is part of
included:
Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security,
Intel Corporation,
USA) Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa
Inc., USA;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair, and
Vice Chair of
IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University of Detroit Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan,
USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer
Science, Elected Fellow
of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing
(Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh
Eshaghian-Wilner,
Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Southern
California,
USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of California Los
Angeles, UCLA,
USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information
Management, Central
Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security
& Forensics, Taiwan
and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab
(ICCL) & ICCL-FROG;
Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer
Systems and
Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of
Parallel Algorithms
and architectures Research Group, Democritus University
of Thrace, Greece;
Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and
Director of Computer
Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of
Detroit Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow
of IAPR, ISIBM,
WASE and Professor of Computer and Information Science,
Northeastern
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and
Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished
Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof.
George Jandieri,
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief
Scientist at
The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of
Science, Georgia;
Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and
Engineering, DKTE
Institute, India; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and
Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l
Advisory Board
of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber
Defense
Competition, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA;
Prof. G. N. Pandey,
Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of Studies, India
(and Adjunct
Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology,
India);
Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer
Science and
Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS,
President of FTRA,
Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof.
Fernando G.
Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
Co-editor, Journal
of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic,
Microsoft, Washington,
USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State
University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael
R. Grimaila,
Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM,
CISSP, IAM/IEM,
Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the
Prince of Wales
Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard
Universities and PC
member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of
Excellence (CCD COE);
Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software
Department,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh,
Director of HoIP,
Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of
WABT and
Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of
Westminster, UK;
Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer Society,
Principal/Interdisciplinary
R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America;
Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer
Science, Vice President,
Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director
of Intelligent Cyberspace
Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com.,
Texas, USA; Prof. Layne
T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow
of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State University,
Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South
Bioinformatics
Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University
of Arkansas,
USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing
Communications Lab.(MPCL),
SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong,
Editor-in-Chief
of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS),
Dongguk University,
Seoul, South Korea; and others.
The 2015 Program
Committee for individual conferences are currently being
compiled. Many
who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,
scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;
many are
directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/
chairs of
departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as
well as deans
and provosts.
Program
Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented
research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should
email editor@world-comp.org the following information
for
consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
email address, a
one-page biography that includes research expertise & the
name of this
conference.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
The federated
Congress that this conference is part of is composed of
research
presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included:
Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr.
K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H.
Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof.
Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago &
ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof.
Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof.
John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian
D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF
Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute
of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic),
Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and
Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System
Exploration),
Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH
Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H.
Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell
University -
formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former
director of
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science
Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof.
Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,
USA); Prof.
Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv
University,
Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the
multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and
author of textbook);
Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE
and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science
and Technology
Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);
Prof. Amit Sheth
(Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;
Founder/Executive
Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled
Computing
(Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State
University,
Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and
Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force
Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA
and Chair of
IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John
McLucas Award,
the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);
and many other
distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five
largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from
about 85
countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on
"Start
SlideShow" tab at the url above.)
An important
mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers,
educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach
out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as:
universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research
centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to
connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main
mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as
their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its
institution and geography diversity objectives."
One main goal of
the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research
conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting
held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates
communication among researchers in different fields of computer
science,
computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also
encourages
multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
i.e.,
facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December
8, 2014, proceedings of the federated congress that this
conference is
part of (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/), have
received over
27,878 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation
data is obtained
from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does
not even include
more than 15,000 other citations to papers published by
conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by the congress.
Individual
proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress can
be purchased
from major science book distributors: (such as: EBSCO and
others):
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information
that appears in this announcement is correct as of
December 8,
2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
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