-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care Datum: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:07:09 -0400 Von: Mor Peleg peleg.mor@gmail.com Antwort an: Mor Peleg peleg.mor@gmail.com An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************************************************

KR4HC 2009 Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care: Patient Data, Processes and Guidelines

In conjunction with AIME 2009

http://banzai-deim.urv.net/events/KR4HC/ ***************************************************************************************************************

DESCRIPTION

As computerised health-care support systems are rapidly becoming more knowledge intensive, the representation of medical knowledge in a form that enables reasoning is growing in relevance and taking a more central role in the area of medical informatics. In order to develop a successful decision-support and knowledge management approach to medical knowledge representation, the scientific community has to provide efficient representations, technologies, and tools to integrate all the important elements that physicians work with: electronic health records and health-care information systems, clinical practice guidelines, and standardized medical terminologies, codification standards, etc.

Synergies to integrate the above mentioned elements and types of knowledge must be sought both in the medical problems (e.g., prevention, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, etc.) and also in the CS and AI technologies (e.g., natural language processing, digital libraries, knowledge representation, knowledge integration and merging, decision support systems, machine learning, e-learning, etc.).

LIST OF TOPICS

We are seeking original papers on topics from the following non-exhaustive list:

# Knowledge representation and ontologies for health-care processes. # Formalization of medical processes and knowledge-based health-care models. # The use of ontologies, conceptual models and medical vocabularies for representing descriptive and procedural

medical knowledge # Combining medical guidelines with care pathways and the care delivery process. # Procedural knowledge extraction from health-care databases. # Temporal knowledge representation and exploitation. # Knowledge combination and adaptation for health-care processes. # Knowledge validation, eg. checking compliance with guidelines and protocols against patient data, the use of quality indicators, or simulation of guideline against patient data. # Digital libraries and repositories of health-care procedural knowledge, guidelines and protocols # Knowledge-based learning of health-care processes,e.g. data mining for guideline construction. # Data and knowledge integration and interoperability for health-care processes, guidelines and protocols # Personalization and localisation for health-care processes, guidelines and protocols # Use cases and deployments of formal representation of descriptive and procedural medical knowledge # The impact of evidence-based medicine on the development and representations of descriptive and procedural medical knowledge # Methods and tools for change- and version-management of descriptive and procedural medical knowledge.

SCHEDULE

* Deadline for paper submissions: 15 May 2009 * Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2009 * Final camera-ready manuscripts: 25 June 2009 * Workshop date: 19 July 2009

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers must be submitted before May 15th using the submission process provided by Easychair (www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=kr4hc09), and should follow the Springer format. Acceptance decisions will be announced by June 10th. Camera-ready copies must be provided by June 25th.

There are two categories of paper submissions:

1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages) 2. Short papers (up to 2 pages) that are * short position papers * demonstration of implemented systems

According to the workshop organization, it is expected that the accepted full papers will be invited to be included in a Springer LNAI volume.

PROGRAM

The program will consist of a number of presented papers, combined with one or two invited speakers and a poster session for position papers and live system demonstrations.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

# David Riaño, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain # Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CONTACT DETAILS

David Riaño (david.riano@urv.net) Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Rovira i Virgili Univesitty, Av. Paisos Catalans 26, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. tel (+34) 977 559657

Annette ten Teije (annette@cs.vu.nl) Department of AI, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. tel (+31)-20-598 7721/7483

WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE

* John Bohada, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain * Aida Kamisalic, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain * Silvia Miksch, Danube University Krems, Austria * Joan Albert López-Vallverdú, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain * Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Israel

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

� Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada � Ameen Abu-Hanna, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. � Roberta Annicchiarico, Santa Lucia Hospital, Italy � Luca Anselma, Università di Torino, Italy � Fabio Campana, CAD RMB, Italy � Paul de Clercq, University of Maastricht, The Netherland � John Fox, University of Oxford, UK � Robert Greenes, Harvard University, USA � Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, University of Western Ontario, Canada � Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands � Tamás Hauer, CERN, Switzerland. � Jim Hunter, University of Aberdeen, Scotland � Katharina Kaiser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria � Patty Kostkova, City University London, UK. � Peter Lucas, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands � Mar Marcos, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain � Stefani Montani, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy � Silvana Quaglini, University of Pavia, Italy � Kitty Rosenbrand, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (CBO), The Netherlands � Yuval Shahar, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel � Brigitte Seroussi, STIM, DPA/DSI/AP-HP, France � Andreas Seyfang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria � Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK � Maria Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain � Paolo Terenziani, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Italy � Samson Tu, Stanford University, USA � Aida Valls, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain � Dongwen Wang, University of Rochester, USA � Jeremy Wyatt, National Institute of Clinical Excellence, UK

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