last CFP: AIMDM'99 Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

[Silvia Miksch]

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            AIMDM'99 -- Call for Papers for the workshop

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   *** Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care ***
            	Knowledge-Based Information Management 
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				Sunday, June 20,  1999
				  Aalborg, Denmark


                                 during the
            Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
              in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM'99)
                  in Aalborg, Denmark,  June 20 - 24, 1999


 		 (homepage of AIMDM http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/)
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Important dates

   * Submission deadline:  	March 1, 1999
   * Notification to authors: April 15, 1999
   * Camera-ready paper: 	May 15, 1999 
   * Conference: 			June 20-24, 1999
   * Workshop: 	    Sunday, June 20, 1999


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The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) 
and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex.
Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a 
large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment
for the patient among many different options. 
New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved
information management, as has the need to monitor and assess 
the quality of care provided. This workshop presents "State of
the art" applications of information technology for clinicians, 
researchers and industry working in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care.



Workshop Topics:
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Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 

* computational methods for intelligent data analysis 
	(e.g., interpretation of time-ordered data)
* quality control and assessment
* clinical guidelines and protocols
* effective and efficient monitoring (including intelligent alarming)
* decision support
* physiological modelling
* planning and scheduling
* uncertain and temporal reasoning
* visualization

In particular, we will ask the participants to address the following points:
- what kind of support are the clinicians really expecting and 
	asking for in ICUs and Anaesthesia
- what are the people working in industry able to provide
- what can the research community contribute to improve the 
	information management
- how can the different approaches and perspectives be combined
- what are the (research) directions for the near future

 

In addition Patient Data Management systems will be presented by
representatives from industry.


Submission of Papers:
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The workshop invites submission of full papers or structured abstracts 
written in English to the workshop chair, Silvia Miksch, preferably 
in electronic format (word, pdf or postscript) no later than March 1st 1999. 



* Full papers: 
	These should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages. 	
	Full papers should be formatted according to
	Springer's LNCS format, details of which can be obtained from 
	http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, or by writing
	to the programme committee chair.

* Structured abstracts: 
	These should be a maximum of one page A4 with the text fitting 
	within a box 16 cm wide and 22 cm high. The title of the abstract 
	should be in 12 point bold format with author details and main text
	being 12 point font, single line spaced, preferably in Times font.
	Abstracts should be structured with the following headings: 
	Objective, methods, results and conclusions.
 
(see instruction for authors for AIMDM'99 URL:
http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/html/contrib.htm) 

Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15th 1999. Authors are
requested to state their preference for oral presentation or poster. 
Abstracts and papers will appear as separate workshop notes. 

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Submission Address: 
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Silvia Miksch 
Vienna University of Technology   
Institute of Software Technology (IFS)	     
Resselgasse 3/188                  
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
email: silvia at ifs.tuwien.ac.at


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In addition a special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)
dedicated to Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care
and Anaesthesia is planned, and will include a selection of the best 
papers from the workshop.
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Scientific committee: 
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Silvia Miksch (Chair) (A)
Steen Andreassen (DK) 
Michel Dojat (F)
Jim Hunter (UK)
Christian Popow(A) 
Steve Rees (DK)
Per Thorgaard (DK). 





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Silvia Miksch                            silvia at ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Vienna University of Technology     http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Software Technology (IFS)	     +43-1-58801-18824
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