-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] HCist 2020 - Int. Conf. on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies | Vilamoura (Algarve, Portugal) | Oct 21-23 | Scopus CPCI Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 17:51:44 +0000 From: Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha mcunha@ipca.pt Reply-To: mcunha@ipca.pt To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

HCist 2020 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies

an AIS affiliated conference

http://hcist.scika.org

Scopus, CPSI

October 21-23, 2020 Hotel Crowne Plaza, Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal)

(special fee for AIS members) ---------- ----------

Dear Colleague

Please consider submitting your work to HCist 2020 - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, an AIS Affiliated Conference. The chosen venue for the ninth edition of HCist is the Crowne Plaza 5* Hotel in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

---------- ---------- Committees

General Chair: - Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA Advisory Board: - Domingos Alves, Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo University, Brazil - Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal - Ricardo Correia, Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, Portugal - Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, University of Sousse, Tunisia Program Chair: - to be announced soon Organization chair: - Emanuel Peres, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Keynote speakers: - to be announced soon

---------- ---------- Important dates

Paper Submission deadline: April 18, 2020 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: June 14, 2020 Final Submission (camera ready) due date: July 11, 2020

---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://hcist.scika.org) until April 18, 2020.

Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage http://hcist.scika.org

- A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be two to three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages).

All conference submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed.

---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications:

Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication.

All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. For more detailed information, please visit http://hcist.scika.org

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We look forward to welcoming you in our beautiful Vilamoura, Algarve, next October 21-23.

With our best regards, Marco Fernando and Francesca Bianchi (on behalf of the organization)

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