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>First Call for Papers
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>IDAMAP 2005: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
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>Sunday, July 24, 2005
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>A one-day workshop during the 10th European Conference on Artificial
>Intelligence in Medicine 2005 (AIME 05) in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
>
>John Holmes and Niels Peek (chairs)
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>Organized in collaboration with Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining
>Workgroup of International Medical Informatics Association, and Knowledge
>Discovery & Data Mining SIG of American Medical Informatics Association
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>http://idamap.org/idamap2005
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>Submission: April 24, 2005
>Notification: May 23, 2005
>Camera-ready: June 17, 2005
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>GENERAL INFORMATION
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>IDAMAP-2005, a one day Workshop on intelligent data analysis in medicine and
>pharmacology, will be held at King's College Conference Centre in Aberdeen,
>Scotland, UK, during the AIME 2005 Conference.
>This is the tenth IDAMAP Workshop: the former ones were held in Budapest in
>1996, Nagoya in 1997, Brighton in 1998, Washington DC in 1999, Berlin in
>2000, London in 2001, Lyon in 2002, Cyprus in 2003, and Stanford in 2004.
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>The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data
>analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of
>analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and 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. Typical
>methods include data mining, temporal abstraction, machine learning, and
>data visualization.
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>Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the
>opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere
>which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and
>practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely interactive event
>and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general
>discussion.
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>TOPIC
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>In the workshop the attention will be given to methodological issues of
>intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in medicine,
>biomedicine and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but
>are not limited to,
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>- data mining techniques, including machine learning, clustering,
> neural networks, etc.,
>- other techniques for construction of predictive models,
>- data visualization,
>- analysis of large data sets,
>- relational data mining,
>- interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of
> temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction),
>- knowledge representation,
>- knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data
> analysis techniques,
>- utility of background knowledge in data analysis,
>- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within
> biomedical information systems.
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>A paper submitted to the workshop is expected to show a selected methodology
>can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and would typically address
>the following issues:
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>- What is the medical or clinical problem addressed?
>- Which knowledge representation was used?
>- Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the
> data analysis or interpretation of results?
>- How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use?
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>Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data
>analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of
>medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics data
>bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of
>pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis.
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>We also invite papers on data analysis tools. Such papers can overview a
>particular tool and describe why and how this could be suitable for
>intelligent data analysis in medicine and other application areas that are a
>subject of the IDAMAP workshop. Preferably, the papers on data analysis
>tools would also describe a case study where the tool was used.
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>SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
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>The scientific program of the workshop will consist of presentations of
>invited and accepted papers and panel discussion.
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>SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
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>IDAMAP invites submissions of either short papers (2 pages, up to 1500
>words, leading to a poster/short presentation at the meeting) or full papers
>(up to 6 pages/4500 words, leading to a panel presentation at the meeting).
>Papers should be written in English. Authors should send an electronic
>submission in PDF format to both chairs (jholmes@...,
>n.b.peek@...); please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject,
>where YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Alternatively to
>preferred PDF, submissions using Post Script or MS Word format are also
>welcome.
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>The submissions should be received no later than April 24, 2005. Additional
>formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on
>Workshop's home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2005.
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>Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 23, 2005. Papers will appear
>in workshop notes that will be distributed to registered participants. A
>subsequent publication of selected and revised papers in peer-reviewed
>journal is planned.
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>REGISTRATION
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>Participants of the workshop are not obliged to register for the AIME
>conference. However, non-AIME participants will be charged a higher fee than
>AIME-participants. Details on payment and registration will be announced
>later this spring and will be posted on the workshop's web page,
>(http://idamap.org/idamap2005) and the AIME 05 website
>(http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/).
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>PROGRAM COMMITTEE (invited)
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>- John H. Holmes, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
> USA (chair)
>- Niels Peek, Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>(chair)
>- Ameen Abu-Hanna, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>- Lars Asker, Stockholm University, Sweden
>- Robert Beck, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA
>- Riccardo Belazzi, University of Pavia, Italy
>- Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy
>- Janez Demsar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
>- Michel Dojat, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
>- Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
>- Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria
>- Jim Hunter, University of Aberdeen, UK
>- Nicolette de Keizer, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>- Elpida Keravnou-Papaeliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
>- Matjaz Kukar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
>- Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
>- Nada Lavrac, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
>- Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, UK
>- Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
>- Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
>- Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard Medical School and M.I.T., Boston, USA
>- Katarina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
>- Paola Sebastiani, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
>- Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
>- Steve Rees, Aalborg University, Denmark
>- Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
>- Arno Siebes, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
>- Stephen Swift, Brunel University, UK
>- Allan Tucker, Brunel University, UK
>- Frans Voorbraak Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>- Adam B Wilcox, University of Utah, USA
>- Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia