5th International Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications

KES-AMSTA-2011,The 5th International Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications,

29 June – 1 July 2011, Manchester, United Kingdom

http://amsta-11.kesinternational.org/

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KES-AMSTA-2011 is an international scientific conference for research in the field of agent and multi-agent systems.
The conference will take place in the city of Manchester (United Kingdom), internationally known for its sporting, cultural and scientific achievements. The conference will consist of keynote talks, paper and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops on the theory and application of Agent-based Systems and related areas.
-- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------
PAPER SUBMISSION NOW OPEN - SUBMIT PAPERS VIA THE WEB SITE

Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests in the areas of: Agent Systems, Multi-agent Systems; Development Tools for Agent-based Systems and their Applications.
All contributions must original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Please see the web site for details of the required paper format. To ensure high quality, all papers must be submitted using the PROSE online system, and will be thoroughly reviewed by the Programme Committee. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal and the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Authors will be limited to one paper per registration.
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Scientists, engineers and researchers who would like to organise an invited session of six papers, or a parallel workshop of a half or full day, on some topic falling within the scope of the conference, are invited to contact the KES Secretariat enclosing the title and content of the proposed session. We also welcome suggestions for other activities that will appeal to our delegates.
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-- General Sessions -- Submission of papers: 20 Dec. 2010
Notification of acceptance: 11 Feb. 2011
Final paper publication files to be uploaded by: 11 Mar. 2011
-- Invited Sessions -- Submission of Papers: Set by Session Chair
Notification of Acceptance: Set by Session Chair
Upload of Final Publication Files: 11 March 2011

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Honorary Chair: J. Brooks, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
General Co-Chairs: J. D. O’Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University, N.T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Executive Chair: R.J. Howlett, Bournemouth University, UK
Program Co-Chairs: Z. Bandar, Manchester Metropolitan University, K Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dariusz Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Local Organizing Chair: J. D. O’Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University
Publicity Co-Chairs: D. McLean, Manchester Metropolitan University and K. Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University
Special Session Chair: I. Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Doctoral Track Chair: D. Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
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2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Call for Workshop Proposal

The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and 
Intelligent Agent Technology

22 � 27 August 2011, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org

The Program Committees of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT�11) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, August, 22, 2011 at Lyon, France.

The main goal of the WI-IAT�11 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

Workshop Proposal Submission
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Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF) directly to the three Workshop Chairs via e-mail (see their email addresses below).
Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- Short CV of organizers
- A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested, workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Intelligent Distributed Robots
- Distributed Intelligence
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Sensing Web and Smart World
- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Farming
- Web Data Management
- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Convergence of email, instant messaging and social-network tools
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents

Important Dates
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Workshop proposal submission: December 17, 2010
Notification to workshop proposers: January 7, 2011
Workshop paper submissions: March 21, 2011
Notification of Workshop paper acceptance: June 1, 2011
Workshops and Industry day: August 22, 2011

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Jean-Marc Petit (INSA, France)
Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan)

Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE 2011

                        Website: http://www.enase.org

                             June 8 - 11, 2011 
                                Beijing, China


Hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University

Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI


Submission deadline: January 24, 2011.

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Dear Colleague,

We would like to draw your attention to the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2011), which has currently an open call for papers.
ENASE 2011 will be held in Beijing, China next June 8-11 and will be hosted by the Beijing Jiaotong University. It will be held in conjuction with ICEIS 2011 (http://www.iceis.org) and registration to ENASE will allow free access to ICEIS.

ENASE is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 70 submissions, 27% were accepted as full papers and 16% were presented as short papers.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. CXCS

Revised and extended versions of all full paper which are presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at SciTePress' Digital Library (www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please send a proposal to the ENASE secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.enase.org). 


Should you have any question or suggestion please don't hesitate to contact me.


Kind regards,
Helder Coelhas
ENASE Secretariat
Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2 esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: enase.secretariat@insticc.org




ENASE Website: http://www.enase.org
June 8 - 11, 2011
Beijing, China

IMPORTANT DATES:            
Regular Paper Submission: January 24, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): March 25, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 4, 2011


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

    * Software and Systems Development Methodologies
    * "3A" (Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented) Software Engineering
    * Service-oriented Software Engineering and Management
    * Component-based Software Engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
    * Model-driven Engineering
    * Meta Programming Systems and Meta-modeling
    * Knowledge Management and Engineering
    * Architectural Design and Meta Architectures
    * Business Process Management, Engineering and Reengineering
    * Process-centric Paradigms
    * Service-oriented Architectures
    * Service Science
    * Application Integration Technologies
    * Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
    * e-Business Technologies
    * Requirements Engineering Frameworks and Models
    * Collaborative Requirements Management Systems
    * Business and Software Modeling Languages
    * Software Quality Management
    * Software Change and Configuration Management
    * Geographically Distributed Software Development Environments
    * Cross-feeding between Data and Software Engineering
    * Design Thinking as a Paradigm for Software Development
    * Formal Methods
    * Software Process Improvement
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Harold Krikke
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Xuewei Li
Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Kecheng Liu
University of Reading, U.K.

Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland

Yannis A. Phillis
Technical University of Crete, Greece

Shoubo Xu
Chinese Academy of Engineering / Beijing Jiaotong University, China


For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.enase.org/keynote_speakers.asp


CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Joaquim Filipe
Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland

Kang Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Available at http://www.enase.org/call_for_papers.asp#program_committee

IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on WEB INTELLIGENCE and INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Call for Demonstrations
The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on WEB INTELLIGENCE and
INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY
22-27 August 2011, Lyon, France

http://wi-iat-2011.org/

The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011)
is a premier event for the Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent community. The two fields continue to experience
rapid growth and manifest interesting synergies in both theoretical and practical terms. While the WI-IAT 2011 main
conference provides an outstanding forum for the discussion of theoretical and conceptual achievements, its demonstration
track aims at exploring applications and practical results.

This call for demonstrations invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry
alike to submit proposals for the WI-IAT 2011 demo track.

Demonstration papers will be printed in the main conference proceedings, while the actual
demonstrations will be highlighted in a specially arranged venue at the conference, facilitating
the interaction between conference attendees and demonstration presenters.

Demonstration submissions should include a title, a short description of the system, a summary
of its novel characteristics, and the functions and features to be demonstrated. Submissions must
be in English, must not exceed two (2) pages, and must be formatted according to the main
conference's submission guidelines.

The demonstration papers will be 2 pages in length including the bibliography, and must
be submitted online at the conference website.

Demo proposals can be submitted via the Online Submission system (see http://wi-iat-2011.org/).

Important dates

Demo submissions: April 4, 2011
Notifications: May 23, 2011
Camera-ready versions: June 10, 2011
Demonstrations: August 23-25, 2011

Demo chairs
Florian Daniel (University of Trento, Italy)
Gauthier Picard (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)

Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)

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Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)
Co-located with EUMAS 2010 

15 December 2010, Paris, France
Call for Participation & Position Statements
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http://www.irit.fr/TFGSIM


Following the tradition of Agent Link Technical Forum Groups, we
announce the first edition of a Simulation Technical 
Forum Group focussing discussions on methodological and technical 
aspects of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. 
We will work on identification of and solution suggestions for challenges 
of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We also want to 
establish links between members of the agent-based simulation community 
which could lead to common research activities and projects.

Topics of interest are (but are not limited to):
* Can modelers creativity be supported by engineering?
* What are the particular challenges in agent-based simulation engineering?
* Suggestions for design, testing, calibration, verification and validation 
  strategies, methods, tools?
* Can we come up with a shared meta model of an agent-based simulation model?
* Challenges and solutions for multi-scale modeling?
* Can AOSE specification languages be used for simulations?
* Is a simulation problem more than just a particular set of requirements?
* What kind of AOSE models for supporting Agent-based simulation design?
* How can we systematically involve human experts and stakeholders?
* What kind of tools do we need for supporting agent-based simulation and 
  modelling?
* What are the particular properties that a modeller must be able to 
  expect from a simulation platform/engine?

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Preliminary Program

The meeting will be held on December 15th at University of Jussieu in 
Paris, France, near the location where EUMAS 2010 
(http://lipade.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/eumas10/index.html) will be held directly 
after the Technical Forum - that will this year consist of a groups working 
on Self-Organisation and on Agent-based Software Engineering in addition to
this group on agent- and multi-agent based simulation.
 
The initial agenda for this meeting plans sessions with talks focussed on 
particular challenges followed by a general panel session. In the first part, a small 
number of focussed presentations will be given followed by discussions on 
the topics raised by the presentations. 
In the second one, a broad panel-like discussion on most relevant topics 
for participants will be held.
The speakers for each panel are to be selected and will be announced through 
the Simulation TFG web page. Suggestions are welcome. Schedule, contributions 
(both in form of papers and presentation slides) and other working documents 
will also be published on this web page.

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Contributions

Participants are strongly encouraged to submit position papers. The deadline 
for contributions related to talks to be held during the meeting is 
November 15th 2010. Papers should be sent to the working group chairs (see below). 
They will be made available for all participants well before the meeting in order to 
prepare discussions. We accept position papers, papers illustrating new researches 
in the area as well as any other scientific relevant contribution (also demonstration 
of prototypes) in the area the above listed topics or others suitable for discussing 
in the frame of the TFG. There will be no formal proceedings therefore already published 
papers are welcome too (provided that in this way no existing copyright is infringed).
The format and length of position papers are open.

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Registration for TFGSIM is free. Unfortunately, there will be no funding for 
attendants in this edition. For any question or comment, do not hesitate to 
contact the TFGSIM chairs.

See you in Paris,

Franziska Klügl 
Modeling and Simulation Research Center, Örebro University, Sweden 
franziska.klugl@oru.se

and

Carole Bernon
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, France
bernon@irit.fr

Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”

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Call for Papers
Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
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Modern software systems have to operate under highly dynamic and
unpredictable operating conditions. User needs may change dynamically,
availability of resources may vary, subsystems may come and go at runtime,
etc. To deal with such dynamics, systems must be self-adaptive, i.e. they
must be able to adapt themselves at runtime to optimize performance, protect
from intrusions, heal from failures, etc. During the last decade, multiple
approaches have been proposed to engineer self-adaptive systems. From these
efforts, we learned that the construction of self-adaptive systems is
significantly more challenging than traditional systems. The aim of this
special issue is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the field
of self-adaptive software systems and outline the challenges for future
research.

We invite quality submissions focusing on all aspects of self-adaptation,
with an emphasis on the engineering of self-adaptive software systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- models and theories for self-adaptation
- formal methods for self-adaptive systems
- architectural styles and patterns for self-adaptive systems
- control loops and reflective architectures for self-adaptation
- quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems
- mechanisms that support monitoring, analysis, planning, and execution
phases of self-adaptation
- dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems
- self-adaptation versus self-organization
- verification of self-adaptive systems, including runtime verification
- methods for engineering self-adaptive systems
- evolution of self-adaptive systems
- case studies and empirical experiments involving self-adaptive systems
- validation of self-adaptation
- application of self-adaptation techniques in industrial and real world
settings
- self-adaptation in component-based system
- self-adaptation in service-oriented systems
- agent-based approaches to self-adaptation
- aspect-oriented approaches to self-adaptation
- self-adaptation in pervasive and mobile systems
- application of principles from biology, sociology, and physics to engineer
self-adaptive systems

All articles should consider the practical application of the idea through
case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons
with other approaches already in practice.

Submissions
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Papers are limited to 20 pages and have to be prepared according to the
author instructions available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/authorinstructions

All papers will be refereed by at least two reviewers knowledgeable in the
domain of self-adaptive systems.

Papers have to be submitted using the Elsevier manuscript system:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jss/

Please select the article type “Special Issue: Self-Adaptive Systems” on the
submission website.

Key Dates
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March 15, 2011 – Submission website open
March 31, 2011 – Submission deadline
July 31, 2011 – Final Decisions
Publication – Tentatively December 2011

Info
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Email: JSS-special-issue2010@cs.kuleuven.be
Web site:
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/description#description

Guest Editors
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Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Pervasive Health 2011

Pervasive Health 2011 Conference 23rd-26th May, 2011 :: Dublin, Ireland 
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/


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It is with great pleasure that we announce the 5th International Conference
on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.

The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original
aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts
that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life,
regardless of space and time.  To achieve this, it is necessary to take a
multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and
development. 

The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and
concerns: 
- identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and
medical perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and
supporting patient needs);
- design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software
infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and
- organisational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive
Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise. 

The 2011 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts,
practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards
the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based
technologies, standards and procedures. 

The theme of this year’s conference is: Coping with the Challenges and
Opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE), with a special focus on
pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality
based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of
patient care. The challenges and opportunities within e-Healthcare are
immense. A multidisciplinary and coordinated approach is needed from 1) user
requirements, 2) technology development and 3) application integration, to
help deliver a successful pervasive healthcare management system.
Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to
manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient
conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource
constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety
of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health
care environments. 
Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no
meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments,
through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data
presentation, assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of
patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and
health management.

 
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We welcome contributions from the following fields:
- Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW)
- Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing
- Hardware and Software Infrastructures

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not
limited to: 

Pervasive Healthcare Management
- Challenges surrounding data quality
- Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare 
- Business cases and cost issues 
- Security and privacy issues
- Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare 
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Insurance payments and cost aspects
- Staffing and resource management 

Understanding Users
- User requirements 
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver
needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
- Usability and acceptability
- Barriers to adoption, and enablers 
- Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
- Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services 
- Patient empowerment
- Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements 
- Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations  

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data 
- Activity recognition
- Fall detection
- User modelling and personalization
- Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environment 

Technology
- Sensor-based decision support systems
- Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors 
- Wearable and implantable sensor integration 
- Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments 
- Data mining medical patient records
- Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middleware
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Applications
- Autonomous systems to support independent living 
- Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies 
- Telemedicine
- Chronic disease and health risk management applications 
- Health promotion and disease prevention 
- Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring 
- Continuous vs  event-driven monitoring of patients 
- Smart homes and hospitals
- Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient
data
- Wellbeing and lifestyle support
- Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision
impairements
- Systems to support caregivers


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Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories: 

1. Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions
describing results and original research work not submitted or published
elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers
should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and
clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to
the field.

2. Posters (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work
in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to Pervasive
Health audience. The poster track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way
to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with
an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts.

3. Demos (2 pages submissions) - The demos track will showcase the latest
developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the
conference. The expected demo submissions should describe the technical
details of the demo alongside its contribution to the healthcare domain..

4. Position Papers (2 pages submissions) - Position papers are envisioned to
provide insight into the lessons learnt from current (industrial,
practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare practice. The position
papers track is envisioned to provide the view of practitioners to the
pervasive health community in order to have a more clear understanding about
the real needs of healthcare operators and in this way shorten the gap
between technologists and the every-day needs of practitioners.

5. Workshops (2 pages submissions) Several workshops will be run in
conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to
discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related
to pervasive healthcare. Proposals for workshops should be submitted
directly to the workshops co-chairs, and proposals should indicate the
preferred duration for the workshop (half/full-day).

6. Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) – We are please to announce the first
Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral Consortium. This one day event will enable
doctoral students to present and reflect on their work alongside other
doctoral students and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a
description of work done, intended future work, alongside a specific
research question or challenge that you would like to be discussed at the
consortium. 


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All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(to be confirmed). 


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Workshops Proposals:           November 19th , 2010

Paper submission deadline:     February 4th, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    April 11th, 2011
Camera-ready Manuscripts:      April 25th , 2011
Conference Dates:              May 23rd – 26th, 2011 


WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Please visit the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium pages for detailed
submission requirements and procedures (upcoming).


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Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and
procedures.
http://www.pervasivehealth.org


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Best Paper Award
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IOS Press will provide a prize, in the form of a free 12 months subscription
to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, for the
authors of the best Pervasive Health 2011 Conference Paper.


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General Chairs 
John O'Donoghue, University College Cork, Ireland
Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland 

Technical Program Chairs 
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland
Julie Maitland, National Research Council, Canada 

Local Arrangements Chairs 
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland

Workshops Chairs 
Marilyn McGee-Lennon, University of Glasgow, UK
Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, UK

Demos Chair 
John Barton, CLARITY/Tyndall, Ireland 

Publications Chair 
Paul McCullagh University of Ulster, UK

North America Liason 
Patricia Brennan Project Health Design, USA 

Asia Liason 
Chi-Hung Chi Tsinghua University, China 

Australia Liason 
Gourab Sen Gupta Massey University, NZ 

Publicity Chair 
Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal 

Conference Coordinator Chair 
Gergely Nagy ICST 

Doctor Colloquium Chairs 
Tom O'Kane, University College Cork, Ireland
Kelly Caine, Indiana University, USA 


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e-mail:  ph2011@prevasivehealth.org
Website: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/