- From: Rainer Unland <unlandr@informatik.uni-essen.de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:17:15 +0100
- To: Rainer.Unland@icb.uni-due.de
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extended deadline
for paper submissions: Feb., 1
MAS*BIOMED'06
Call for Papers Second International Workshop on
Agents in Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics
(http://www.diee.unica.it/biomed06/)
Workshop to be held at the
Fifth International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006)
(http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/)
Future University-Hakodate, Japan
9th May 2006
*Important Dates *
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006; extended to Feb, 1
Notification of Acceptance: February 19, 2006
Camera ready: March 5, 2006
Workshop: May 9, 2006
*Motivation and Description *
There is growing evidence that agent technology can be useful in
designing and implementing solutions aimed at supporting the automation
of medical and biological procedures. While it is essential for computer
scientists and software developers to understand the specific problems
in medicine and biology, it is also essential for an expert of either
domain to understand the capabilities of agent technology. The main
purpose of this workshop is to bring together and create synergies
between researchers on these fields in order to discuss relevant issues
and approaches aimed at assessing and promoting the adoption of agent
technology. It is intended that the workshop mainly focuses on the
benefits of adopting agent technology in:
(i) storing, accessing, and distributing relevant medical or biological
data,
(ii) implementing the automation of information-gathering and
information-inference processes in medical and biological settings,
(iii) supporting e-Health,
(iv) simulating and modeling biological systems.
This workshop aims to attract both theoretically and practically
oriented papers in these thriving areas in the intersection of medicine
and biology with computer science. The workshop will also focus on
supporting infrastructures, such as agent-based systems, tools,
languages, ontologies, and networking facilities for medicine,
bioinformatics and computational biology. Papers on the application and
evaluation of agent approaches to the solution of problems in these
fields will be particularly sought.
*Topics of interest include but are not limited to: *
* Multi-Agent Interaction in Medical or Biological Settings
- Coordination of tasks and data
- Collaboration in peer-to-peer networks
- Multi-strategy and meta- learning for cooperative information agents
* Analysis and Modeling of Data and Tasks
- Multi-agent systems for medical pre-detection, diagnosis, and treatment
- Multi-agent systems for patient scheduling, transplant management,
community care, information access, training,
internal hospital and clinic tasks, etc.
- Integrated genotyping and gene linkage analysis
- Multi-agent approaches to gene expression analysis
- Modeling of biological processes
* Architectures, Languages, Tools, and Applications
- Agent-based architectures and frameworks tailored for medical or
biological domains
- Customization of agent-based tools, languages, and libraries for
medical or biological domains
* Knowledge management
- Agent-based integration of biological knowledge
- Agent-based data mining and knowledge discovery in medical or
biological domains
- Multi-agent information gathering in medical or biological settings
- Integration of heterogeneous data sources and/or services
* Ontologies for Medical or Biological Domains
- Collaborative ontology construction
- Distributed ontology management
*Submission Procedure*
Those wishing to participate in the workshop are requested to submit an
original research paper, not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers
will be peer reviewed by at least two referees from the workshop's
program committee based on the technical relevance, quality, clarity of
presentation, objective analysis of the reported experiences, and
novelty. High-profile survey papers could be also considered for
publication. The length of a paper must not exceed 15 single-spaced A4
pages including figures, tables, and references. Papers should be
formatted using the Springer LNCS style. Templates are available at
Springer. The language of the workshop is English. At least one of the
authors per each accepted paper should be able to register with and
attend the workshop and present the paper. All submissions should be
sent by email, either in PDF or in PostScript format, to
biomed06 AT diee.unica.it.
The subject of the email should contain "medicine" or "biology" within
square brackets to facilitate the organizing committee in the task of
associating papers to referees. All the accepted papers will be printed
in the workshop proceedings of the workshop.
A selection of the best papers presented at this workshop will be
considered for a special issue on the same theme at "Multiagent and Grid
Systems - an International Journal" by IOS press.
*Organizing Committee*
Giuliano Armano (giuliano.armano@diee.unica.it)
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
Piazza D'Armi - 09123 Cagliari (Italy)
Andrew Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Univ. College London (UK)
Darwin Building - Gower Street London WC1E 6BT - England
Huaglory Tianfield (h.tianfield@gcal.ac.uk)
Glasgow Caledonian University, School of Computing and Mathematical
Sciences, SRIF/SHEFC
Centre for Virtual Organization Technology Enabling Research (VOTER) -
Director
70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, UK
Rainer Unland (UnlandR@informatik.uni-essen.de)
Inst. for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB),
University of Duisburg-Essen
Schuetzenbahn 70, 45117 Essen, Germany
*Publishing Chair *
Eloisa Vargiu (vargiu@diee.unica.it)
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
Piazza D'Armi - 09123 Cagliari (Italy)
*Preliminary Program Committee*
Martin Beer, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
Hans Czap, Univ. of Trier (Germany)
Joerg Denzinger, Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
Jürgen Klüver, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Patty Kostkova, City University (UK)
Emanuela Merelli, Univ. of Camerino (Italy)
Luciano Milanesi, Institute of Biomedical Technologies I.T.B. (Italy)
Simon Miles, University of Southampton (UK)
Agostino Poggi, Univ. of Parma (Italy)
David Riaño, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain)
Margarita Sordo, Harvard Medical School (US)
Jürgen Stausberg, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Christina Stoica, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Eloisa Vargiu, Univ. of Cagliari (Italy)
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data
Management Systems and Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
email: UnlandR at informatik.uni-essen.de
WWW: http://www.cs.uni-essen.de/dawis/
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