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> JOINT WORKSHOP
>
> IDAMAP 2003: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE
> AND PHARMACOLOGY 2003
>
> And
>
> KBIM-AIC 2003: KNOWLEDGE-BASED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
> IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE 2003
>
> during the
>Ninth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2003
> 18-22 October 2003, Cyprus
>
> (Full CFP: http://idamap.org/idamap2003)
>
> Ameen Abu-Hanna (Chair), Jim Hunter (Co-Chair)
>
>SCHEDULE
>
>+ Paper submission deadline - 23 June, 2003
>+ Notification to Authors - 14 July, 2003
>+ Camera-ready papers - 04 August, 2003
>+ Workshop at AIME 2003 - 18 October 2003
>
>SCOPE
>
>This Workshop brings together the two successful and related workshop
>series on Intelligent Data Analysis In Medicine And Pharmacology
>(IDAMAP) and Knowledge-Based Information Management in Anaesthesia and
>Intensive Care (KBIM-AIC) which have been run separately up till
>now. The scope of the joint workshop is the union of the scopes of
>its two component workshops.
>
>IDAMAP: This workshop series is devoted to computational methods for
>data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that somehow
>exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be
>available at different stages of the data analysis and model-building
>process. Nowadays, machine-learning tools provide a promising means to
>derive understandable diagnostic and prognostic rules; Bayesian
>structure and parameter learning methods are capable of capturing the
>(in)dependence
>structure hidden in data and of learning and updating the model's
>parameters; clustering and instance-based learning methods, like
>case-based reasoning, may represent a crucial help to physicians in
>their decision making process; the interpretation of time-ordered data
>through the derivation and revision of temporal trends and other types
>of temporal data abstraction provides a powerful instrument for event
>detection and prognosis; data visualisation is increasingly becoming
>an essential element in the overall process of knowledge discovery in
>databases.
>
>KBIM-AIC: This workshop series focuses on the increasingly complex
>care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and
>during Anaesthesia. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and
>respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting
>appropriate treatment for the patient among many different
>options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for
>improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess
>the quality of care provided. The introduction of intelligent knowledge-
>based techniques is seen as one way of assisting clinicians with this
>information overload. These techniques include: computational methods
>for intelligent data analysis; quality control and assessment;
>clinical guidelines; intelligent monitoring; decision support;
>physiological modelling; planning and scheduling; uncertain
>and temporal reasoning; information visualization.
>
>PAPERS
>
>Papers are solicited on methodological issues of intelligent data
>analysis pertaining to the themes of the joint workshop and on
>specific applications in medicine and pharmacology. Papers treating
>the issue of handling large volumes of complex data from an individual
>patient will be especially welcomed. Papers should in any case
>explicitly address the topics of the workshop, explaining:
>
>+ the medical or clinical problem;
>+ the need for (prior) knowledge;
>+ the kind and representation of knowledge used;
>+ how is knowledge put into use.
>
>The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in
>English. Authors should send an electronic submission in either PDF or
>PostScript to the chair and co-chair not later than 23 June, 2003. The
>length of long papers is about 4000 words (8 pages) and the length of
>short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages).
>
>CHAIRS
>
>Ameen Abu-Hanna (Chair)
>Department of Medical Informatics
>Academic Medical Center
>University of Amsterdam
>Meibergdreef 15
>1105 AZ Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
>Telephone: +31 20 5664511; Fax : +31 20 6912432
>E-mail: A.Abu-Hanna@...
>
>Jim Hunter (Co-chair)
>Department of Computing Science
>University of Aberdeen
>Aberdeen AB24 3UE
>Scotland, UK
>Telephone: +44 1224 272287; Fax: +44 1224 273422
>Email: jhunter@...
>
>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
>
>Ameen Abu-Hanna, Netherlands Steen Andreassen, Denmark
>Lars Asker, Sweden Riccardo Belazzi, Italy
>Luc Dehaspe, Belgium Javier Diez, Spain
>Michel Dojat, France Linda van der Gaag, Netherlands
>Catherine Garbay, France Peter Hammond, UK
>Werner Horn, Austria Jim Hunter, UK
>Nicolette de Keizer, Netherlands
>Eamonn Keogh, USA Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
>Pedro Laranaga, Spain Nada Lavrac, Slovenia
>Cristiana Larizza, Italy Xiaohui Liu, UK
>Peter Lucas, Netherlands Silvia Miksch, Austria
>Lucila Ohno-Machado, USA Niels Peek, Netherlands
>Christian Popow, Austria Marco Ramoni, USA
>Paola Sebastiani, USA Steve Rees, Denmark
>Yuval Shahar, Israel Blaz Zupan, Slovenia