Invited Session on
Hybrid Intelligent Systems in Medicine & Health Care
in conjunction with the
10th International conference on
Knowledge-based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
(KES-06)

October 9-11, 2006, Bournemouth, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Objectives

In recent years, research in design and development of hybrid intelligent systems has been substantially increased. Hybrid intelligent systems are systems that combine two or more intelligent techniques, such as techniques stemming from artificial intelligence, machine learning and computational intelligence. Medicine and health care are closely related domains, where the types of problems faced are suitable for application of hybrid intelligent techniques. Although hybrid intelligent techniques have already been successfully applied to medicine and health care, there is still enough space for either new hybrid approaches or new applications where hybrid techniques have still not adequately applied to. The special session on Hybrid Intelligent Techniques in Medicine & Health Care seeks for quality research papers on hybrid techniques or systems used in applications related to medicine or health care. The objective of the session is to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners, who work on designing or developing medical or health care applications and use hybrid intelligent techniques or work on hybrid intelligent techniques and apply them to medical or health care applications, to present their research works and exchange ideas.

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Topics

Topics of interest from the medical & health care domains include (but not limited to) the following:

  • Applications Using Biological Data
  • Clinical Monitoring
  • Genome Analysis
  • Medical Consultation
  • Medical Decision Support/Making
  • Medical Record Management
  • Medical Test/Signal/Image Interpretation/Recognition
  • Medical/Health Care Education
  • Medical/Nursing Diagnostics and Classification
  • Nursing Care
  • Medical/Health Resources Planning
  • Therapy Planning
  • Visualization of Clinical/Medical/Biological Data
Topics of interest from the hybrid intelligent techniques area include (but are not limited to) the following:
  • Description Logics and Ontologies
  • Fuzzy Expert Systems
  • Integrations of Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Integrations of Expert Systems and Genetic Algorithms
  • Integrations Including Intelligent Agents
  • Integrations of Machine Learning and Expert Systems
  • Integrations of Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Neuro-Symbolic Approaches
  • Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques
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Paper submission and processing

We are interested in high quality research papers on the above or related topics. Interested authors should submit electronic versions of their papers (in pdf format) through the KES-06 submission system (our session code is IS40). The papers should not exceed 8 pages (following standard Springer LNCS/AI Series format) and are due by February 26th, 2006. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee of the Session.

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Important dates

Paper submission due:         March 12th, 2006  
Notification of acceptance:    April 1st, 2006
Final version due:                April 15th, 2006  

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Proceedings

All accepted papers will be included in the KES-06 proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as part of the LNCS/LNAI Series. The specific LNCS/LNAI series format will be required for the camera-ready copy. Extended versions of selected papers may be considered for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering or another Journal.

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Attendance

One of the authors of each accepted paper is expected to register with the conference and present it at the session.

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Program Committee (To be completed)

Plamen Agelov
Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University, UK

George Dounias
Dept. of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras & RACTI, Greece (chair)

Takumi Ichimura
Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Nikola Kasabov
School of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealnd

Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou
Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Peter Kokol
Laboratory for system design , FERI , Universitaet Maribor, Slovenia

Constantinos Koutsojannis
Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece (co-chair)

George Magoulas
School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Christos Makris
Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras & RACTI, Greece

Silvia Miksch
Institute of Software Technology & Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Toni Moreno
Department of Computer Science & Maths, University Rovira i Virgilli, Spain

Vasile Palade
Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK

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For further information contact

 Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (chair)
Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics
University of Patras
26500 Patras
HELLAS (GREECE)**
Email: ihatz@ceid.upatras.gr,
URL: http://mmlab.ceid.upatras.gr/aigroup/ihatz/

Constantinos Koutsojannis (co-chair)
Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics
University of Patras
26500 Patras
HELLAS (GREECE)**
Email: ckoutsog@ceid.upatras.gr, 

** HELLAS and GREECE are equivalent names of my country. Although
   GREECE has dominated for historical reasons, HELLAS is its
   proper name.
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