ANNOUNCEMENT
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AIME'05

First ...

... Call for Papers
... Call for Workshops
... Call for Tutorials


for the Tenth Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

July 24 - 27, 2005, Aberdeen, UK
Deadline: February 9, 2005
www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05

Co-located with IJCAI-2005
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The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), was established in 1986 with two main goals: 1) to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and 2) to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences. Additionally, AIME assists medical industrialists to identify new AI techniques with high potential for integration into new products. A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille (FR) in 1987 to Protaras, Cypru in 2003, held biennially over the last 18 years.

The AIME'05 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of AI in Medicine from both a research and an applications perspective. For this purpose, AIME'05 will include invited lectures, contributed full and short papers, system demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

Scope
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Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the evaluation of health care programmes. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.
The scope of the conference includes the following areas:
* Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Refinement, Validation and Maintenance
* Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
* Decision Support Systems
* Neural Networks and Belief Networks
* Reasoning under Uncertainty
* Temporal Representation and Reasoning
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Planning and Scheduling
* Protocols and Guidelines
* Information Retrieval
* Natural Language Generation and Understanding
* Computer Vision and Imaging
* Signal Interpretation
* Intelligent Agents 
* Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems
* Cognitive Modelling


Submissions Overview
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There are two categories of paper submission
1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are
   a. short reasearch paper
   b. demonstration of implemented systems
   c. late-breaking results (work-in-progress)

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format (see www.springeronline.com/lncs or www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Authors are strongly encouraged to submit the papers electronically, following the instructions provided in the conference web page (see below).

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).
As in previous AIME conferences, proposals for the organisation of tutorials and satellite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Proposals for Tutorials: We February 9, 2005
Proposals for Workshops: We February 9, 2005
Electronic Draft Abstract Submission Deadline: We February 2, 2005
Electronic Paper Submission Deadline: We February 9, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: We April 6, 2005
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: We April 27, 2005
For more details about the conference please consult: www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05


Silvia Miksch, Vienna, Austria (Programme Committee Chair)
Jim Hunter, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Organizing Committee Chair)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Ameen Abu-Hanna, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Vienna, Austria
Steen Andreassen, Aalborg, Denmark
Giovanni Barosi, Pavia, Italy
Pedro Barahona, Lisboa, Portugal
Robert Baud, Geneve, Switzerland
Riccardo Bellazzi, Pavia, Italy
Isabelle Bichindaritz, Washington, USA
Enrico Coiera, Sidney, Australia
Carlo Combi, Verona, Italy
Evert de Jonge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michel Dojat, Grenoble, France
Henrik Eriksson, Linkping, Sweden
John Fox, London, United Kingdom
Catherine Garbay , La Tronche, France
Arie Hasman, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reinhold Haux, Braunschweig, Germany
Barbara Heller, Leipzig, Germany
Laurent Heyer, Paris, France
Werner Horn, Vienna, Austria
Jim Hunter, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Organizing Committee Chair)
Elpida Keravnou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Nada Lavrac, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Lucas, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Neil McIntosh, Edinburgh, UK
Silvia Miksch, Vienna, Austria (Programme Committee Chair)
Mark Musen, Stanford, USA
Mor Peleg, Haifa, Israel
Christian Popow, Vienna, Austria
Ian Purves, Newcastle, UK
Silvana Quaglini, Pavia, Italy
Alan Rector, Manchester, United Kingdom
Stephen Rees, Aalborg, Denmark
Rainer Schmidt, Rostock,Germany
Brigitte Seroussi, Paris, France
Yuval Shahar, Beer Sheva, Israel
Basilio Sierra, Donostia, Spain
Costas Spyropoulos, Athens, Greece
Mario Stefanelli, Pavia, Italy
Vojtech Svatek, Prague, Czech Republic
Paolo Terenziani, Alessandria, Italy
Samson Tu, Stanford, USA
Johan van der Lei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dongwen Wang, New York, USA
Jim Warren, Adelaide, Australia
Thomas Wetter, Heidelberg, Germany
Blaz Zupan, Ljubljana, Slovenia