2nd Call for Papers
7th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KRH4C)
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8th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in
Healthcare (ProHealth)
Organized as One Full Day Workshop
KR4HC’15 / ProHealth’15
<http://banzai-deim.urv.net/events/KR4HC-ProHealth-2015/>
Pavia, Italy – June 20, 2015
In conjunction with the 15th Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME15 <http://aime15.aimedicine.info/>)
Important Dates
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 13 April 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 11 May 2015
Camera-ready version: 5 June 2015
KR4HC/ProHealth Workshop: 20 June 2015
Workshop Goals
Healthcare organizations are facing the challenge of delivering high quality
services to their patients at affordable costs. These challenges become more
prominent with the growth in the aging population with chronic diseases and the
rise of healthcare costs. High degree of specialization of medical disciplines,
huge amounts of medical knowledge and patient data to be consulted in order to
provide evidence-based recommendations, and the need for personalized
healthcare are prevalent trends in this information-and knowledge-intensive
domain. The emerging situation necessitates computer-based support of
healthcare process & knowledge management as well as clinical decision-making.
This workshop brings together researchers from two communities who have been
addressing these challenges from two different perspectives. The
knowledge-representation for healthcare community, which is part of the larger
medical informatics community, has been focusing on knowledge representation
and reasoning to support knowledge management and clinical decision-making.
This community has been developing efficient representations, technologies, and
tools for integrating all the important elements that health care providers
work with: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and healthcare information
systems, clinical practice guidelines, and standardized medical vocabularies.
The process-oriented information systems in healthcare community, which is part
of the larger business process management (BPM) community, has been studying
ways to adopt BPM technology in order to provide effective solutions for
healthcare process management. BPM technology has been successfully used in
other sectors for establishing process-aware enterprise information systems
(vs. collections of stand-alone systems for different departments in the
organization). Adopting BPM technology in the healthcare sector is starting to
address some of the unique characteristics of healthcare processes, including
their high degree of flexibility, the integration with EMRs and shared
semantics of healthcare domain concepts, and the need for tight cooperation and
communication among medical care teams.
This joint workshop brings together two different aspects of IT support for
healthcare: healthcare process support, as addressed in previous ProHealth
workshops, and healthcare knowledge representation as dealt with in previous
KR4HC workshops. Obviously, both aspects are closely related and can be viewed
as two sides of the same coin, basically. The workshop shall elaborate both the
potential and the limitations of the different approaches for healthcare
process & healthcare knowledge management as well as clinical decision-making.
It shall further provide a forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools for
optimized knowledge-based clinical process support can be debated. We want to
bring together researchers and practitioners from these different, yet similar
fields to improve the understanding of domain specific requirements, methods
and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between IT support and
healthcare processes yet to be closed. This forum also provides an opportunity
to explore how the approaches from the two communities could be better
integrated.
History of the Joint Workshop
Providing computer-based support in healthcare is a topic that has been picking
up speed for more than two decades. We are witnessing a plethora of different
workshops devoted to various topics involving computer applications for
healthcare. Our goal has been to try to join forces with other communities in
order to learn from each other, advance science, and create a stronger and
larger community. In 2012 and 2013, the two workshops, KR4HC and ProHealth were
held as a joint workshop, which proved to be very successful. This year, we are
aiming to continue the collaboration initiative and hold another joint workshop.
The two workshops have quite a long history, as briefly described below.
The first KR4HC workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine conference (AIME'09), brought together members of two
existing communities: the clinical guidelines and protocols community, who held
a line of four workshops (European Workshop on Computerized Guidelines and
Protocols (CPG'2000, CPG'2004); AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based
Guidelines and Protocols 2006; Computer-based Clinical Guidelines and Protocols
2008) and a related community who held a series of three workshops / special
tracks devoted to the formalization, organization, and deployment of procedural
knowledge in healthcare (CBMS’07 Special Track on Machine Learning and
Management of Health Care Procedural Knowledge 2007; From Medical Knowledge to
Global Health Care 2007; Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures 2008).
Since then, four additional KR4HC workshops have been held, in conjunction with
the ECAI’10, AIME’11, BPM’12 (joint workshop with ProHealth), AIME’13 (joint
workshop with ProHealth), and KR’14 conferences.
The first ProHealth workshop took place in the context of the 5th Int’l
Conference on Business Process Management (BPM) in 2007. The next three
ProHealth Workshops were also held in conjunction with BPM conferences (BPM'08,
BPM’09, and BPM’11). The aim of ProHealth has been to bring together
researchers from the BPM and the Medical Informatics communities. As the
workshop was associated with the BPM conference that had never been attended by
researchers from the Medical Informatics community, we had included Medical
Informatics researchers as keynote speakers of the workshop, members of the
program committee, and to our delight, saw a number of researchers from the
Medical Informatics community actively participating in ProHealth workshops.
Following the keynote talk given by Manfred Reichert from the BPM community at
the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2011 (AIME’11) conference, where KR4HC
was held, the organizers of ProHealth and KR4HC workshops have shown their
interest to hold their workshops in conjunction as part of the BPM'12
conference, which marks a landmark in the collaboration between the two
communities. In 2013 another joint ProHealth and KR4HC workshop was held, this
time as part of AIME’13. In 2014 the ProHealth workshop was held again as part
of the BPM conference.
Workshop Theme
Original contributions are sought, regarding the development of theory,
techniques, and use cases of Artificial Intelligence and / or process
management in the area of healthcare, particularly connected to patient data,
clinical guidelines and healthcare processes.
Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality,
technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their
research contribution and the relation to the goals of the workshop. The scope
of the workshop includes, but is not limited to the following areas:
· Process modeling in healthcare
· Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines / protocols and decision
support
· Workflow management in healthcare
· Semantic integration of healthcare processes with electronic medical
records
· Knowledge representation and ontologies for healthcare processes
· Temporal knowledge representations and exploitation
· Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes
· Visualization, monitoring and mining healthcare processes
· Knowledge extraction from healthcare databases and EPRs
· Knowledge combination, personalization and adaptation of healthcare
processes
· Compliance of healthcare processes
· Evaluation of quality and safety of careflow systems
· Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes
· Process optimization and simulation in healthcare organizations
and healthcare networks
· Experiences in deploying knowledge-based tools in healthcare
· Patient empowerment in healthcare
· Linking clinical care and clinical research
· Lifecycle management for healthcare processes
· Context-aware healthcare processes
· Ambient intelligence & smart processes in healthcare
· Mobile process and task support in healthcare
· Process interoperability & standards in healthcare
· Process-oriented system architectures in healthcare including cloud-based
architectures)
Format of the Workshop
The 1-day workshop will comprise accepted long and short papers, tool
presentations, and 1 keynote. Papers should be submitted in advance and will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. An informal
proceedings will be available during the workshop. At least one author for each
accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper. The
selected best long (full) papers will be included in the formal proceedings,
which are expected to be published as part of the LNAI Springer series, as it
was done in all previous editions of the workshop .
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the
areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Three types of
submissions are possible: (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature
research results, (2) position papers reporting research that may be in
preliminary stage not yet been evaluated, and (3) tool reports. Position papers
and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers must present original
research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted in the LNCS format. The title page must contain a
short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the
list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular
paper, position paper, or tool report).
Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the Easychair
system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr4hcprohealth2015
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr4hcprohealth2015>
Important Dates
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 13 April 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 11 May 2015
Camera-ready version: 5 June 2015
KR4HC/ProHealth Workshop: 20 June 2015
Workshop Co-Chairs
Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Germany
Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mor Peleg, University of Haifa, Israel
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
David Riaño, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Annette ten Teije, VU Universisty Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
