PASTH 2012 Call for Papers

[Peizhao Hu <Peizhao.Hu [at] nicta.com.au>]

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                 The 2nd International Workshop on
Pervasive and Ambient Applications, Systems and Technologies for Healthcare (PASTH 2012)

                   In conjunction with ANT 2012
                      27-29 August, 2012
                 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
 
         https://sites.google.com/site/pasth2012/home/
 

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission:        Feb. 10, 2012 
Author Notification:     April 10, 2012
Final Manuscript:        May 10, 2012
 
 
Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence are evolving and playing a vital role in the advancement of the modern Computing and Information Technology research. They encompass a broad range of aspects, such as mobile and wireless computing, wearable computing, sensor based systems, context aware computing, RFIDs, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and human computer interaction. These technological aspects have a significant impact on various industries in our society, and healthcare is one of them. With the social, economical and technical needs and challenges, the healthcare and medical industry is continuously exploring and exploiting these emerging technologies, applications and paradigms for improved, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, collaborative and secure multi-purpose solutions.

This workshop (PASTH 2012) aims to bring together the multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are involved in the fields of computing / information technology and healthcare / medical care. It encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent and significant developments of mobile / pervasive / ambient applications, systems, technologies, environments and infrastructures in the fields of healthcare / medical care, and other similar domains, such as public health and pharmaceutical industry.

Topics of Interest
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This workshop invites the researchers to submit their completed or ongoing work contributions for the following main topics of interests. The papers with topics from related / similar areas will also be considered.
 
    Mobile devices and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
    Pervasive health and mobile health applications
    Information and knowledge processing in pervasive healthcare environments
    Wireless technologies for smart home and hospitals
    Wireless emergency response systems
    Telemedicine applications and systems for healthcare delivery
    Context aware applications for patient monitoring and care
    User interface design for wireless healthcare applications
    Collaboration technologies for healthcare
    Emerging m-health applications
    M-health applications in public health and pharmacy
    Healthgrids
    Cloud computing for healthcare
    Virtual reality in healthcare
    Virtual environments for healthcare
    RFID solutions for healthcare
    Design and development of ambient healthcare systems
    Privacy and security in pervasive and ambient healthcare systems
    Ambient assisted living for elderly care
    Sensor based decision support systems
    Embedded system architectures in healthcare
    Activity recognition in smart healthcare environments
    Wearable intelligence for healthcare
    Intelligent medical devices, sensors and systems
    Intelligent medical applications for mobile devices
    Intelligent agent architectures for smart healthcare environments
    Sensing and actuating systems for patient care
    Related real world experimentations and case studies
 
 
PAPER SUBMISSION
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All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the  open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier. Authors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair submission system, 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasth12
 
The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.
 

-- 
regards;

Peizhao

                 The 2nd International Workshop on 
Pervasive and Ambient Applications, Systems and Technologies for Healthcare (PASTH 2012)

                   In conjunction with ANT 2012
                      27-29 August, 2012
                 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

         https://sites.google.com/site/pasth2012/home/


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Paper Submission:        Feb. 10, 2012 
Author Notification:     April 10, 2012
Final Manuscript:        May 10, 2012


Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence are evolving and playing a vital role in the advancement of the modern Computing and Information Technology research. They encompass a broad range of aspects, such as mobile and wireless computing, wearable computing, sensor based systems, context aware computing, RFIDs, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and human computer interaction. These technological aspects have a significant impact on various industries in our society, and healthcare is one of them. With the social, economical and technical needs and challenges, the healthcare and medical industry is continuously exploring and exploiting these emerging technologies, applications and paradigms for improved, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, collaborative and secure multi-purpose solutions. 

This workshop (PASTH 2012) aims to bring together the multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are involved in the fields of computing / information technology and healthcare / medical care. It encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent and significant developments of mobile / pervasive / ambient applications, systems, technologies, environments and infrastructures in the fields of healthcare / medical care, and other similar domains, such as public health and pharmaceutical industry.

Topics of Interest
==================

This workshop invites the researchers to submit their completed or ongoing work contributions for the following main topics of interests. The papers with topics from related / similar areas will also be considered.

    Mobile devices and Electronic Health Records (EHR)
    Pervasive health and mobile health applications
    Information and knowledge processing in pervasive healthcare environments
    Wireless technologies for smart home and hospitals
    Wireless emergency response systems
    Telemedicine applications and systems for healthcare delivery
    Context aware applications for patient monitoring and care
    User interface design for wireless healthcare applications
    Collaboration technologies for healthcare
    Emerging m-health applications
    M-health applications in public health and pharmacy
    Healthgrids
    Cloud computing for healthcare
    Virtual reality in healthcare
    Virtual environments for healthcare
    RFID solutions for healthcare
    Design and development of ambient healthcare systems
    Privacy and security in pervasive and ambient healthcare systems
    Ambient assisted living for elderly care
    Sensor based decision support systems
    Embedded system architectures in healthcare
    Activity recognition in smart healthcare environments
    Wearable intelligence for healthcare
    Intelligent medical devices, sensors and systems
    Intelligent medical applications for mobile devices
    Intelligent agent architectures for smart healthcare environments
    Sensing and actuating systems for patient care
    Related real world experimentations and case studies


PAPER SUBMISSION
================

All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the  open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier. Authors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair submission system, 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasth12

The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.