Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences The Eighth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-09) Seattle, Washington, USA July 21, 2009
Call for Papers There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies, CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This is the seventh in a series of exciting workshops, which have been held at every ICCBR and ECCBR since 2003. This workshop will be held at ICCBR-09, in Seattle, Washington, USA, on July 21, 2009. The goals of this workshop are to: * provide a forum for identifying important contributions and opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health sciences, * promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health sciences, and * showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences. Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the workshop, are to identify challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context needs, preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain. We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Integration of CBR in health care environments * CBR in medical decision-support systems * CBR in medical imaging * CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or chronic health problems * CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences * Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine * Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning * CBR in bioinformatics * CBR and evidence-based medicine Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions. Submission Requirements PDF paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of ten pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available at the Information for LNCS Authors page, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 We will not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we welcome papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in the Health Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously published material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In your submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper. Please upload submissions via the ICCBR-09 EasyChair Conference Site, https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr09 Important Dates * Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 * Notification Date: May 18, 2009 * Camera-Ready Deadline: May 29, 2009 * Workshop date: July 21, 2009 Workshop Web Site http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/iccbr09/workshop.html Organizing Committee Co-Chairs Cindy Marling Ohio University, USA marl...@ohio.edu Stefania Montani University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy stefania.mont...@unipmn.it Committee Members Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA Peter Funk, Malardalen University, Sweden Alec Holt, University of Otago, New Zealand Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jean Lieber, Loria, France Stefan V. Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany Luigi Portinale, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Olga Vorobieva, Pavlov State Medical University, Russia _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai