-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: Symposium on Data Science for Healthcare Datum: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:43:21 +0000 Von: Chen, Yi yi.chen@njit.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org Kopie (CC): Yi Chen yi.chen@njit.edu
================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS
DaSH 2017: Symposium on Data Science for Healthcare
October 19-20, 2017, Leir Retreat Center, CT, USA https://web.njit.edu/~ychen/DaSH ================================================================
OVERVIEW
The Symposium on Data Science for Healthcare (DaSH) is a premium forum that gathers leading researchers, practitioners, policy makers and thought leaders in related fields to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas, grand challenges, and future directions in leveraging big data for healthcare revolution. DaSH also provides valuable opportunities for scholars to disseminate their work, and fosters collaboration in a multi-disciplinary setting across different sectors for cross-fertilization.
After two successful events, the third DaSH symposium will be held on October 19 noon - October 20 1:30PM at the Leir Retreat Center, Ridgefield, CT, USA. The DaSH symposium is sponsored by the Leir Charitable Foundations, and is supported by New Jersey Institute of Technology.
We invite extended abstracts on novel data science approaches to address healthcare issues in a broad spectrum, aiming for improving healthcare quality, reducing cost and improving accessibility. We encourage both contributions about system-building experiences, experimental studies, new applications, as well as visionary statements.
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Papers are solicited on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:
* Health economics * Information systems for healthcare * Health data sharing, exchange and integration * Health data quality * Healthcare analytics and predictive modeling * Natural language processing and text mining for healthcare * Health service delivery and workflows * Social media, mobile and Internet of Things for healthcare * Health information visualization and system usability * Privacy and security of health data
We especially welcome papers that address data quality issues in healthcare this year.
All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee for novelty, soundness and significance.
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July 31, 2017 Submission of papers August 21, 2017 Notification of acceptance August 31, 2017 Camera-ready papers and author registration October 19-20 DaSH symposium
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Papers should be electronically submitted in pdf format to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dash2017.
Submissions are to be formatted according to the DaSH's camera-ready format, as embodied in the provided templates: either latex style file or word sample template file. These template files were adapted from the ACM templates. The submission must not exceed FOUR pages.
Authors who are willing to present a demonstration of their developed system, can mark their paper title as "Demo Proposal:" followed by the paper title in the first page of the paper.
Besides research papers, a one-page description of poster/exhibition to be presented in the conference is also welcome.
Final versions of accepted submissions will be published in the electronic proceedings of the DaSH symposium. DaSH uses the Creative Commons license policy that allows authors to retain copyright while allowing DaSH to distribute their work broadly through modern media.
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As a forum for leading researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and directions of Data Science for Healthcare, a senior author (e.g. a faculty member, a researcher or an experienced practitioner) of an accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the paper. For accepted papers with several co-authors, the program committee reserves the right to select the co-author who should present the paper at the conference as a condition of acceptance. Participants are expected to attend the symposium at its entirety.
DaSH is an invitation-only conference, where participation is limited to authors of accepted papers based on the above requirements and attendees by invitation. Participants are expected to attend and actively engage during the entire event.
Thanks to the generous support of Leir Charitable Foundations and The Leir Retreat Center, the symposium registration, meals in the symposium, and one night hotel stay on October 19th will be covered and arranged by The Center
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PROGRAM CHAIR: Yi Chen Martin Tuchman School of Management, NJIT Email: dash.symposium@gmail.com
ADVISORY BOARD: Susan Davidson Computer & Info. Science, UPenn Kathy Grise Big Data Initiatives, Future Directions, IEEE Bradford Hesse National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health Cheickna Sylla Martin Tuchman School of Management, NJIT
PROGRAM COMMITTEE David G. Belanger Howe School of Tech. Management, Stevens Institute of Tech. Soon Ae Chun School of Business, The City University of New York Gordon Gao Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland James Geller Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences, NJIT Ketan Mane Health Informatics, Kaiser Permanente Rao Praveen Dept of CSEE, University of Missouri-Kansas City Fei Wang Weill Cornell Medical School, Cornell University Christopher Yang College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University
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