Thursday, April 12, 2018

Call for Papers with Extended Paper Submission Deadline of April 20, 2018: The 4th International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'18), July 30-August 2, 2018, Las Vegas, U.S.A.



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

        Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2018
                 11:59pm USA Eastern Time zone (EDT)

       The 4th International Conference on Health Informatics
                        and Medical Systems
                             (HIMS'18)

         July 30 - August 2, 2018, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA

This is an extended submission deadline; however, authors who have
already submitted papers (before March 31), will receive decisions
and status/referee reports by around April 15; others by May 1.

Corporations who wish to participate in "Career, Job, & Education
Fair", please see the instructions at the end of this announcement.

SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

   PROLOGUE: Health Informatics and Medical Systems is an important
   area that is at the intersection of information science, computer
   science, social science, behavioral science and health care. This
   field is mainly concerned with the resources, devices, and methods
   required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, processing
   and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics
   is driven by computers, information and communication systems. It is
   a multi-disciplinary field that covers a wide spectrum of sub-fields.
   It combines the problem solving skills of computer scientists with
   health care professionals and health care givers. The list of topics
   of interest that appears below is by no means exhaustive.

   o  Information Technologies for Healthcare Delivery and Management
   o  Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization
   o  Healthcare Knowledge Management and Decision Support
   o  Healthcare Modeling and Simulation
   o  Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning
   o  Health Information Systems
   o  Clinical Informatics
   o  Integrated Data Repository
   o  Computational Health Informatics
   o  Community Health Informatics
   o  Informatics for Education & Research in Health and Medicine
   o  Imaging Science
   o  Collaboration tools such as social media, web apps, patient education
   o  Healthcare Communication Networks and Environments
   o  Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
   o  Computer-Aided Surgery
   o  Computers in Medical Education
   o  Haptics in Healthcare
   o  Health Care Information Systems
   o  Implant Technology and Systems
   o  Interactive 3-D Models
   o  Medical Physics
   o  Neural, Sensory Systems and Rehabilitation
   o  Patient Diagnosis Methods
   o  Patient Monitoring Systems
   o  Regenerative Medicine
   o  Systems Physiology
   o  Telemedicine
   o  Therapeutic Engineering and Systems


conference is part of, is among the top five largest international
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 75 countries and territories. To get a feeling about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at
(over 2,000 photos): http://photos.ucmss.com/


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

   There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
   speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
   Keynote Speakers in recent years have included:

   - Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
   - Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
   - The Late Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
     U. of Michigan)
   - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
   - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
   - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
   - Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
     former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
     CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
   - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)
   - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
   - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)
   - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
     Cyberinfrastructure)
   - Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
   - Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
     Purdue University)
   - Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
   - Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
     Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
     Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook)
   - Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
     and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
     Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
   - Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
     Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
   - Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
   - Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
   - Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
     Technology, Sweden)
   - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)
   - and over 190 other distinguished speakers.


INTRODUCTION:

   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
   Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks
   technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of
   keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously,
   same location and dates: July 30 through August 2, 2018. Last year,
   the Congress had attracted speakers/authors and participants
   affiliated with over 169 different universities (including many
   from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations
   (including: Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon,
   Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE
   Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon
   Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline,
   HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies
   (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US
   national laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL,
   Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National
   Cancer Institute, NIST, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as
   well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual Property
   issues. Last year, 55% of attendees were from academia, 24% from
   industry; 20% from government and funding agencies; and 1% unknown.
   About half of the attendees were from outside USA; from 72 nations.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted
   papers will be published in printed conference books (ISBN),
   imprinted by the American Council on Science and Education, and
   distributed/published by CSREA (Computer Science Research, Education,
   and Applications Press). The proceedings will also be made available
   online. The printed proceedings/books will be available for
   distribution on site at the conference. The books will be indexed in
   science databases, including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the
   largest subject index systems, and others. ACM Digital Library is
   also including the titles into its databases as well as ProQuest
   indexing databases and others.

   In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
   (about 40%) will appear in journals and 12 edited research books;
   publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others. Each book
   in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science
   indexing products (which includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI
   Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com;
   and others). See the web link below for a small subset of such
   publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
   already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
   identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
   index trackers.)


   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
   them to the evaluation web site at:  https://american-cse.org/
   Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
   must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (7 pages for Regular Research
   Papers; 4 pages for Short Research Papers; 2 pages for Extended
   Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages include all figures,
   tables, and references). All reasonable typesetting formats are
   acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
   follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers
   for publication; these formatting instructions appear at the submission
   web site and they conform to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers
   must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
   publication elsewhere.

   The first page of the paper should include the followings:
      - Title of the paper
      - Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each
        author (identify the name of the Contact Author)
      - Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
      - A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
        work described in the paper
      - Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
        "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
      - The actual text of the paper can start from the first page
        (space permitting).
      Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
      portal at https://american-cse.org/

   Type of Submissions/Papers:

     - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
       Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research
       contributions. They must report new research results that
       represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and
       support for the results and conclusions should also be provided.
       The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a
       stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published
       as journal papers.

     - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
       Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They
       should provide overall research methodologies with some results.
       The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage
       of maturity that with some additional work can be published as
       regular papers.

     - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
       Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still
       in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend
       to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results.

   Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
   originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
   of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
   committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
   often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees.
   Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program
   committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
   (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered
   for discussion/panels).


CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR:

   The CSCE 2018 Congress will host its two-day Career, Job, & Education Fair
   on July 30 and July 31, 2018. This annual strategic event provides
   congress attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with
   employers and educators and learn more about career options. Corporations
   can also exhibit their products during the event. Interested parties


IMPORTANT DATES:

   April 20, 2018:    Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/
                      - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
                      - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages);
                      - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages)
                      (Authors who have already submitted papers before
                      March 31, will receive decisions and status reports
                      by around April 15; others by May 1.)
   May 01, 2018:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
   May 15, 2018:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
   July 30 - August 2, 2018:
                      The 4th International Conference on Health Informatics
                      and Medical Systems (HIMS'18)
                      https://americancse.org/events/csce2018/conferences/hims18
                      https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2018

LOCATION:
   Luxor in Las Vegas (renovated)

CONTACT:
   Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
   CSCE'18 Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org