IDAMAP 2002: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE
      AND PHARMACOLOGY 2002

      during
      The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2002
      (ECAI 2002)
      Lyon, France, 22nd or 23rd July, 2002
      (this CfP: http://www.idamap.org/idamap02-cfp.html)



      Peter Lucas (Chair), Lars Asker (Co-Chair), Silvia Miksch (Co-chair)

      SCHEDULE

      • Paper submission deadline - 22 March, 2002
      • Notification to Authors - 12 April, 2002
      • Camera-ready papers - 10 May, 2002
      • Workshops at ECAI 2002 - 22 or 23 July 2002

      SCOPE

      The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that somehow exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data analysis and model-building process.

      Nowadays, machine-learning tools provide an effective means to derive understandable diagnostic and prognostic rules; Bayesian structure and parameter learning methods are capable of capturing the (in)dependence structure hidden in data and of learning and updating the model's parameters; clustering and instance-based learning methods, like case-based reasoning, may represent a crucial help to physicians in their decision making process; the interpretation of time-ordered data through the derivation and revision of temporal trends and other types of temporal data abstraction provides a powerful instrument for event detection and prognosis; data visualisation is increasingly becoming an essential element in the overall process of knowledge discovery in databases.

      In the workshop, special attention will be given to systems that aim at integrating the above mentioned techniques to promote the construction of effective decision models to support medical decision making, the discovery of meaningful patterns and structures in biomolecules and bioassays, the design of new drug compounds, discovery of drugs, etc. In addition, issues related to automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, outcomes analysis, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring, and so on are covered in the workshop.

      SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

      The scientific programme of the workshop will consist of presentations of accepted papers and panel discussions.

      Papers are invited both on methodological issues of intelligent data analysis as well as on specific applications in medicine and pharmacology. The preferred length of papers is 10 pages. Papers should in any case explicitly address the topics of the workshop, explaining:

      • what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted;
      • why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem;
      • how they have represented the available knowledge;
      • how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge.
      Panel discussions will be organised in two phases: the first will identify clusters of basic approaches presented to intelligently analyse data, the second one will deal with discussions initiated by participants.

      WHY THE WORKSHOP IS OF INTEREST

      In all human activities, automatic data collection is driving the development of tools able to handle and analyse data in a computer-supported fashion. In the majority of application areas, this cannot be accomplished without using the available knowledge of the domain or of the data analysis process. This requirement becomes essential in biomedical applications, since biomedical decision making needs to be supported by arguments based on basic biomedical and pharmacological knowledge.

      SUBMISSION FORMAT OF PAPERS

      The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in English to the workshop chair, Peter Lucas. Authors should send an electronic submission in either PDF or PostScript to idamap2002@fri.uni-lj.si not later than 22nd March, 2002. The length of long papers is about 6000 words (5 pages) and the length of short papers is about 3000 words (2-3 pages).

      Papers should be formatted in accordance with the style as proposed by ECAI. Instructions for authors are available in either PDF or Postscript and a LaTeX style file is available. An example LaTeX document is also available.

      ORGANISING COMMITTEE

      Peter Lucas (Chair)
      Department of Computing Science
      University of Aberdeen
      Aberdeen, AB24 3UE
      Scotland, UK
      Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
      E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl, plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk

      Lars Asker (Co-chair)
      Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
      Stockholm University/ KTH
      Forum 100
      SE-164 40 Kista
      Sweden
      Tel: +46 8674 7002; Fax +46 8703 9025
      E-mail: asker@dsv.su.se

      Silvia Miksch (Co-chair)
      Vienna University of Technology
      Institute of Software Technology (IFS)
      Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
      A-1040 Vienna, Austria
      Tel: +43 1 58801 18824, +43-1-58801-18801
      Fax: +43 1 58801 18899
      E-mail: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

      SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

      Ameen Abu-Hanna, Netherlands
      Steen Andreassen, Denmark
      Lars Asker, Sweden
      Riccardo Belazzi, Italy
      Marie-Odile Cordier, France
      Luc Dehaspe, Belgium
      Javier Diez, Spain
      Michel Dojat, France
      Linda van der Gaag, Netherlands
      Catherine Garbay, France
      Peter Hammond, UK
      Werner Horn, Austria
      Elpida Keravnou, Cyprus
      Jan Komorovski, Norway
      Pedro Laranaga, Spain
      Nada Lavrac, Slovenia
      Cristiana Larizza, Italy
      Xiaohui Liu, UK
      Peter Lucas, UK
      Silvia Miksch, Austria
      Lucila Ohno-Machado, USA
      Rene Quiniou, France
      Marco Ramoni, USA
      Paola Sebastiani, USA
      Yuval Shahar, Israel
      Stefan Wrobel, Germany
      Blaz Zupan, Slovenia

      PRIMARY CONTACT

      Peter Lucas
      Department of Computing Science
      University of Aberdeen
      Aberdeen AB24 3UE
      Scotland, UK
      Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
      E-mail: lucas@cs.uu.nl

      PREVIOUS IDAMAP WORKSHOPS

      IDAMAP 2002 is a follow-up to the following successful workshops in the IDAMAP series:
      • ECAI'96 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'96, Budapest, Hungary, August 1996 (N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn, C. Larizza - PC members)
      • IJCAI '97 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'97, Nagoya, Japan, August 1997 (N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, B. Zupan - co-chairs, R. Bellazzi, W. Horn - PC members)
      • ECAI'98 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'98, Brighton, UK, August 1998 (R. Bellazzi, B. Zupan - co-chairs, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu, S. Andreassen, W. Horn, S. Miksch - PC members)
      • AMIA'99 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP'99, Washington, DC, USA, November 1999 (Y. Shahar, S. Miksch - co-chairs, S. Anand, L. Asker, R. Bellazzi, B. Zupan, N. Lavrac, E. Keravnou, C. Larizza, X. Liu, C. Popow, S. Andreassen, W. Horn, - PC members)
      • ECAI 2000 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 2000 (Nada Lavrac, Silvia Miksch - co-chairs, Sarabjot Anand; Steen Andreassen; Lars Asker; Riccardo Bellazzi; Werner Horn; Elpida Keravnou; Cristiana Larizza; Nada Lavrac; Xiaohui Liu; Christian Popow; Yuval Shahar; Blaz Zupan - PCmembers)
      • Medinfo 2001 workshop Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology IDAMAP 2001, London, England, September 2001 (Riccardo Bellazzi, Blas Zupan, Xiaohui Liu, - co-chairs, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Noriaki Aoki, Lars Asker, Werner Horn, Elpida Keravnou, Isaac Kohane, Nada Lavrac, Cristiana Larizza, Peter Lucas, David Marrero, Silvia Miksch, Christian Popow, Marco Ramoni, Yuval Shahar, - PC members)

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