AIME 2009

The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine (AIME), was established in 1986 with two main goals: to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences. A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Amsterdam (NL) in 2007, held biennially over the last 20 years. The AIME'09 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of AI in BioMedicine from both perspectives of theory, methodology, and application. For this purpose, AIME'09 will include invited lectures, full and short papers, tutorials, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The conference will be held in Verona - Italy. Scope

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in BioMedicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to molecular medicine and biomedical informatics. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve biomedical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system. Original long and short papers are sought on the development of theory, systems, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to molecular medicine and biomedical informatics and to healthcare organizational aspects. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methods potentially useful in solving medical problems. Papers addressing theory should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art. Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the medical field. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system. The scope of the conference includes the following areas: Knowledge Acquisition and Management Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies Decision Support Systems Neural Networks and Belief Networks Reasoning under Uncertainty Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning Case-Based Reasoning Planning and Scheduling Protocols and Guidelines Information Retrieval Natural Language Generation and Understanding Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging, and Signal Interpretation Intelligent Agents Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems Cognitive Modelling Healthcare Process Management Submissions Overview

There are two categories of paper submission Full research papers (up to 10 pages) Short papers (up to 5 pages) that: are short research papers demonstrate implemented systems describe late-breaking results (work-in-progress) Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Authors are strongly encouraged to submit the papers electronically, following the instructions provided in the conference web page (see below). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier). As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organisation of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas. Important dates

Proposals for Tutorials: February 9, 2009 Proposals for Workshops: February 9, 2009 Electronic Draft Abstract Submission Deadline: February 2, 2009 Electronic Paper Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 6, 2009 Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 27, 2009

Programme Committee

Ameen Abu-Hanna, The Netherlands (Doctoral Consortium Chair) Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Austria Steen Andreassen, Denmark Pedro Barahona, Portugal Riccardo Bellazzi, Italy Petr Berka, Czech Republic Isabelle Bichindaritz, USA Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands Carlo Combi, Italy (Local Chair and Scientific co-Chair) Michel Dojat, France Henrik Eriksson, Sweden Catherine Garbay, France Peter Haddawy, Thailand Arie Hasman, The Netherlands Reinhold Haux, Germany John Holmes, USA Werner Horn, Austria Jim Hunter, UK Hidde de Jong, France Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus Pedro Larranaga, Spain Nada Lavrac, Slovenia Johan van der Lei, The Netherlands Xiaohui Liu, UK Peter Lucas, The Netherlands Roque Marin, Spain Paola Mello, Italy Gloria Menegaz, Italy Silvia Miksch, Austria Stefania Montani, Italy Mark Musen, USA Barbara Oliboni, Italy Niels Peek, The Netherlands Mor Peleg, Israel Christian Popow, Austria Silvana Quaglini, Italy Marco Ramoni, USA Alan Rector, UK Stephen Rees, Denmark Lucia Sacchi, Italy Rainer Schmidt, Germany Brigitte Seroussi, France Yuval Shahar, Israel (Scientific Co-Chair) Basilio Sierra, Spain Costas Spyropoulos, Greece Mario Stefanelli, Italy Paolo Terenziani, Italy Samson Tu, USA Allan Tucker, UK Frans Voorbraak, The Netherlands Dongwen Wang, USA Thomas Wetter, Germany Blaz Zupan, Slovenia Pierre Zweigenbaum, France

Organizing Committee

Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni and Roberto Posenato Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy Yuval Shahar, Beer Sheva, Israel (Programme Committee co-Chair) Carlo Combi, Verona, Italy (Programme Committee co-Chair and Organizing Committee Chair)

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