Health Technology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Healthcare

September 12-14, 2013 Yokohama, Japan

Paper Submission Deadline: July 19 (Fri.), 2013

Track Categories

Non-intrusive Measurement

Sensors for u-Healthcare

Ambient assisted living & smart homes

Body sensor/area networks

Signal and Data Processing

Wireless/Mobile Healthcare System

Home Healthcare System

Emergency Healthcare System

Telemedicine

Sleep Monitoring & Evaluation

Cardiovascular Informatics

u-Healthcare for The Elderly

Brain Computer Interface

Therapeutic & Rehabilitation Methods

Energy Scavenging Technologies

Informatics for Assistive Technologies

Contact Person

Toshiyo Tamura
E-mail: tamurat@isc.osakac.ac.jp

Call for Papers: SENSORNETS 2014--3rd International Conference on Sensor Networks

SENSORNETS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

January 7-9, 2013 Lisbon, Portugal

Regular Papers Paper Submission: July 30, 2013

Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses.

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of SENSORNETS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in presenting a demo or lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES
2. WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS
3. HARDWARE
4. DATA MANIPULATION
5. SIGNAL PROCESSING
6. OBSTACLES
7. APPLICATIONS AND USES

AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES

■ Internet of Things

■ Interoperability

■ Agent-based Simulation

■ Decision Support

■ Platforms and Operating Systems

■ Programming and Middleware

■ Connectivity and Communication

■ Scheduling, Tasking and Control

AREA 2: WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS

■ Technologies and Standards

■ WiFi, ZigBee, WiMax, Bluetooth

■ Wireless Network Protocols

■ Routing Techniques

■ Network Architecture

■ Ad Hoc Networks

■ Hierarchical Networks

■ Wireless Mesh Networks

■ Network Performance

■ Power Management

■ Remote Sensing and Telemetry

■ Ubiquitous Computing

AREA 3: HARDWARE

■ Hardware Design, Fabrication Techniques

■ Packaging, Testing and Reliability

■ Electronic Interfaces

■ RFID Readers and Tags

■ MEMS

■ Swarm Sensors

■ Cooperating Objects

■ Sensor Types for Chemical and Biomedical Applications

■ Electronic Nose

■ Electronic Tongue

AREA 4: DATA MANIPULATION

■ Sensor Data Fusion

■ Data Visualization

■ Multi-sensor Data Processing

■ Aggregation, Classification and Tracking

■ Pattern Recognition

■ Reasoning on Sensor Data

■ Indexing and Publishing

■ Data Quality and Integrity

AREA 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING

■ Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing

■ Sparse Signal Processing

■ Multimedia/Audio Signal Processing

■ Coding, and Compression

■ Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing

■ Array Processing of Nonstationary Signals

■ Neural Networks

■ DNA Computing

■ Data Mining

■Fault Detection

AREA 6: OBSTACLES

■ Security: Vulnerability and Privacy

■ Authentication

■ Data Overload

■ Real-time Constraints

■ Energy Efficiency

■ Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis

■ Environmental Impact Reduction

■ Self-healing

■ Infrastructure Reliability

AREA 7: APPLICATIONS AND USES

■ Smart Grids and Energy Control Systems

■ Industrial and Structural Monitoring

■ Environment Monitoring

■ Gas Analysis and Sensing

■ Measurement and Control of Water

■ Well-being and Well-working

■ Smart Buildings and Smart Cities

■ Home Monitoring and Assisted Living Applications

■ Healthcare

■ Medical Imaging

■ Wireless Surveillance

■ Defense and Security

■ Vehicular Networks

■ Aeronautical

■ Sport and Leisure

■ Smart Fabrics and Wearables

Secretariat

SENSORNETS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: sensornets.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sensornets.org

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Papers: BioCAS 2013--IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference

October 31-November 2, 2013 Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At the crossroads of medicine, life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, exciting interdisciplinary research and development activities are taking place that will shape tomorrow’s healthcare and wellbeing. The IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) serves as a premier forum for these activities. It brings together researchers, designers and engineers from industry, academia and government to present and share the latest cutting-edge research results and innovative solutions for today’s complex health problems at the frontiers of biomedical engineering and circuits and systems. The IEEE BioCAS 2013 organizing committee invites papers and proposals for special sessions and tutorials in:

Biofeedback and electrical stimulation

Bioinformatics

Bioinspired circuits and systems

Biomedical imaging technologies and image processing

BioMEMs

Biomedical instrumentation

Biosensors, -actuators and -interfaces

Biosignal processing

Body area networks/body sensor networks

Electronics for brain science and brain machine interfaces

Implantable electronics

Innovative circuits and systems for medical applications

Lab-on-chip

Medical information systems

Telecare systems

Wireless and energy harvesting /scavenging technology in medicine

The complete 4-page paper (in standard IEEE double-column format), including title, authors' names, affiliations and e-mail addresses, as well as a short abstract are requested. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through www.biocas2013.org. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of Regular Papers: Friday, June 14, 2013

Deadline for submissions of Special Session proposals: Friday, June 14, 2013

Deadline for submissions of Tutorial proposals: Friday, June 14, 2013

Author decision notification date: Friday, August 23, 2013

Author registration deadline: Friday, September 13, 2013

Conference dates: Thursday, October 31 -- Saturday, November 2, 2013

Call for Abstracts: BodyNets 2013--8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

September 30–October 2, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BodyNets 2013 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyze, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on body area networks (BANs). We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):

1. Wearable Computing

Ambient intelligence

Pervasive user interface

Context and situation awareness

Augmented reality

Motion detection and activity recognition

2. Embedded Devices and Medical Applications

High-confidence medical devices

Integration of medical devices with healthcare systems

Medical device plug-and-play

Assistive technologies for independent aging

Pervasive health care and patient monitoring

New medical diagnostics and treatments

Ambient assisted living

Virtual hospitals

3. Communications and Networking

Various types of BANs; e.g, in-body, on-body and around-body networks

Signal/information processing and communication models in BANs

BAN architectures and protocols

Power-efficient communications

Wireless energy transfer

Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs

Cloud computing and BANs

Cognitive networks for medical bands

4. Systems and Applications

Sensing and actuation in BANs

Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs

Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments

Design and performance issues

Tools, testbeds and deployment issues

Wireless-to-bio interface/transduction

Standardization

Application domains include, but not limited to, biomedical engineering, computer vision, defense, entertainment (e.g. computer games), human computer interaction, interactive arts, Internet of things, physiological monitoring, prosthetics, robotics, smart garments, sports science, and vehicular networks.

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics, the BodyNets 2013 technical program features a series of special tracks that focus on specific/emerging topics:

Antennas for Body Area Networks (ABAN)

Body Area Networks for Sports Applications and Systems

Body Area Networks with Social Networks (BANSN)

Brain and Body Computing based on Embodied Knowledge (BBC)

Cloud-assisted Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPS)

Energy Harvesting in Body Area Networks (EHBAN)

Human Body Communications (HBC)

Mobile Grid Computing for Smart Health and Well Being (mGrid4SHB)

Motion Detection and Activity Recognition (MDAR)

Nano-scale Communications and Networking (NCN)

Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks (PSTBAN)

Smart Garments (SG)

Smart Health and Big Data (SHBD)

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

Regular papers: Up to 7 pages

Short papers: Up to 4 pages

Poster and demo papers: Up to 1 page

Papers must follow the ACM conference paper format. Please visit http://bodynets.org/2013/show/initial-submission for detailed submission instructions.
Important Dates:

Regular paper submission due: June 1

Short, poster and demo paper submission due: July 1

Notification of acceptance for regular papers: June 30

Notification of acceptance for short, poster and demo papers: July 15

Camera ready due: July 31

Publication:

Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals such as:

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management

ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications

Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal