CfP: IREHSS 2011 - Third IEEE Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research on E-health Services and Systems

[Eleonora Borgia]

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                                Call for papers
                            Third IEEE Workshop on
          Interdisciplinary Research on E-health Services and Systems

                                 IREHSS 2011

                   Affiliated to WoWMoM 2011 June 20-24, 2011
  	                        Lucca, Italy

In the last few years advances in wearable computing, bioengineering,  
wireless
sensors networks, mobile devices and wireless communications have paved  
the way
to new definitions of e-health systems, moving from original telemedicine
systems to the integration of existent specialized medical technologies  
with
pervasive technologies. However, even more work on this area is needed to  
obtain
significant results in improving the Quality of Life of patients and  
reducing
medical errors and costs. First of all, a strict interaction and  
cooperation
among medical specialists and ICT experts is necessary to define correct
requirements fore-health systems. Then, in order to effectively design and
deploy reliable E-health systems, a strong cooperation among several  
diverse
research areas of ICT is necessary (i.e., bioengineering, wearable sensors,
wireless communications, data fusion and processing, decision support  
systems
and others). This is fundamental to make E-health systems a reality,  
satisfying
main requirements of reliability and effectiveness both all the involved
perspectives perspective.

IREHSS aims to provide a forum for the interaction of experts belonging to  
these
different research areas, from wearable computing and ubiquitous  
connectivity to
context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, expert  
systems,
databases, security and privacy. The main objective is to provide a forum  
for
the interaction of these multiple areas as an important chance to discuss  
and
understand what aspects have to be considered to provide effective E-health
systems.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to
E-health, not published or currently under review for another workshop,
conference, or journal.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Wearable and Implantable sensors for healthcare
- Wireless communications in healthcare
- Service and device discovery
- Data fusion and context elaboration
- Privacy and security issues in healthcare
- Middleware for e-health
- Energy Efficiency in health monitoring
- Artificial intelligence and expert systems
- User interface, usability and acceptability of e-health systems
- Healthcare applications for clinicians
- Home monitoring and ambient assisted applications for healthcare
- Power Management and energy-efficient design in Wireless Body Area  
Networks
- System architecture and networking protocols for e-health systems
- Medical data analysis, measurements and management
- Modeling and performance evaluation
- Semantic Web in Healthcare
- Standards and frameworks

Paper submission for regular papers must be limited to 6 pages including  
text,
figures, references and appendices. Manuscripts must be formatted in  
accordance
with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. The IEEE LaTeX and  
Microsoft
Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE
Computer Society website  
(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).
The submission will be entirely managed through EDAS  
(http://edas.info/N9967).

In line with the previous edition, there will be NO workshop-only  
registration.
Conference registration includes attendance to all WoWMoM associated  
workshops,
CD proceedings, etc. It is mandatory that at least one author will  
register and
will participate to illustrate the paper during technical sessions of  
workshops.
The workshop papers will be included in the main WoWMoM proceedings and
published by the IEEE. However, no-shows of accepted papers at the  
workshop will
result in those papers NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library.

Extended versions of selected papers with special merit will be
considered for a possible fast track publication on Pervasive and Mobile
Computing Journal (Elsevier).

Important Dates:

Papers registration: January 27, 2011
Papers submission deadline: January 31, 2011

See http://www.irehss.org/irehss2010/ for additional information or contact
the workshop organizers at irehss2010-chairs at iit.cnr.it .

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs:
Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy
Alessandro Puiatti, SUPSI-DTI, Switzerland

Program Co-Chairs:
Eric McAdams, Institute National des Science Appliquees (INSA), France
Rita Paradiso, Smartex, Italy

Initial Technical Program Commitee:
Ilija Basicevic, Univeristy of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, Bosto, USA
Octav Chiapara, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Luis, USA
Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Anna FoÅrster, SUPSI-DTI, Manno, Switzerland
Matthias Hauswirth, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland	
Nadia Khaled, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Marco Knaflitz, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Oscar Majora, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Silvestro Micera, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland		
Filippo Molinari, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Marcello Mura, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Venet Osmani, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy
Marek Penhaker, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Giovanni Pioggia,IFC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Emanuel Popovici, Univeristi College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences of Southern  
Switzerland,Manno, Switzerland
Francesco Regazzoni, UC Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
Maurizio Schmid, University Roma TRE, Roma, Italy
Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Salvatore Vanini, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland,  
Manno, Switzerland

Publicity Chair:
Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy

Web Manager:
Maria Bucci, IIT-CNR, Italy