IDAMAP 2008

IDAMAP 2008: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology

7th November, 2008 A one-day colloquium in Washington DC, USA John Holmes and Allan Tucker(chairs)

Organized in collaboration with Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association, and Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association

Submission:  July 31, 2008 Notification: August 28, 2008 Camera-ready: September 25, 2008

http://idamap.org/idamap2008

GENERAL INFORMATION

IDAMAP-2008, a colloquium on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine and pharmacology, will be held in conjunction with the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium 2008 (http://www.amia.org/meetings/f08/) in the Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington DC, USA.

The IDAMAP series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data visualization, data exploration, machine learning, and data mining.

Gathering in an informal setting, colloquium participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. The colloquium is intended to be a genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion.

TOPICS

In the colloquium, the attention will be given to methodological issues of intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in biomedicine and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but are not limited to: - data mining and machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning problems, - exploiting domain knowledge in learning and data analysis, - data visualization and exploration, - analysis of large data sets and relational data mining, - knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data analysis techniques, and - integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within biomedical information systems.

A paper submitted to the colloquium is expected to show a selected methodology can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and would typically address the following issues: - What is the medical or clinical problem addressed? - Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the data analysis or interpretation of results? - How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use?

Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics data bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis.

DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS

In addition to regular scientific contributions, we invite developers of data analysis tools to send in a paper description of their tool, and give a demonstration during the colloquium. A special demo session on data analysis tools will be organized. The paper should describe the underlying methodology of the tool and the sketch the potential for application in the field of intelligent data analysis in biomedicine. Preferably, the papers on data analysis tools should also describe a case study where the tool was used.

PROGRAM

The scientific program of the colloquium will consist of presentations of accepted scientific papers, an invited presentation, and demonstrations of data analysis tools. Ample time will be allotted for informal discussion among the participants.

SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS

IDAMAP invites submissions of either short papers (2 pages, up to 1500 words, leading to a short presentation at the meeting) or full papers (up to 6 pages/4500 words, leading to a long presentation at the meeting). Papers should be written in English. Authors should send an electronic submission in PDF format to both chairs (jhholmes@mail.med.upenn.edu, allan.tucker@brunel.ac.uk); please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject, where YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Alternatively to preferred PDF, submissions using Post Script or MS Word format are also welcome.

The submissions should be received no later than July 31, 2008. Formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on the IDAMAP 2008 home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2008.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two people of the program committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by August 28, 2008. Accepted papers will appear in colloquium notes that will be distributed among registered participants. A subsequent publication of selected and revised papers in a peer-reviewed, international journal is planned.

REGISTRATION Details on payment and registration will be announced later this spring and will be posted on the AMIA and IDAMAP 2008 page.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ameen Abu-Hanna, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy Janez Demsar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Michel Dojat, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Werner Horn, Medical University of Vienna, Austria John H. Holmes, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA (chair) Jim Hunter, University of Aberdeen, UK Elpida Keravnou-Papaeliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Matjaz Kukar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain Nada Lavrac, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, UK Oscar Luaces, Universidad de Oviedo at Gijon, Spain Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Marco Masseroli, Politecnico of Milan, Italy Silvia Miksch, Danube University Krems, Austria Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard Medical School and M.I.T., Boston, USA Niels Peek, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fran?ois Portet, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Steve Rees, Aalborg University, Denmark Paola Sebastiani, Boston University School of Public Health, USA Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Stephen Swift, Brunel University, UK Allan Tucker, Brunel University, UK (chair) Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP