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                  ** BAYESIAN MODELS IN MEDICINE **
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                           Workshop during
                      the European Conference on
            Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'01),
                    Cascais, Portugal, 1 July 2001

For details, see
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas/aime01-ws.html

o Submission of papers: 1 May, 2001
o Conference: 1-4 July, 2001
o Workshop: Sunday, 1 July, 2001
o Special issue: second half of 2002 (planned)

Bayesian networks (also known as causal probabilistic networks) with
their associated methods have now been around in biomedicine for more
than a decade. They have become increasingly popular for representing
and handling uncertain knowledge in medicine. Almost simultaneously,
the use of Bayesian statistics has increased in popularity in
medicine.  Currently, interest is emerging within bioinformatics to
use Bayesian methods for building models of various kind.  This
workshop aims to bring together researchers in these fields in order
to assess the current state of the art, to identify obstacles for
progress and to determine future research directions. The workshop's
aim is also to promote research collaboration among different groups
in these fields.

Extended versions of the best papers of the workshop will be published
in a special issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU INTEND TO SUBMIT A PAPER.

For more information about the workshop, please contact one of the co-chairs:

Peter Lucas, plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk
Linda van der Gaag, linda@cs.uu.nl
Ameen Abu-Hanna, A.Abu-Hanna@amc.uva.nl

or consult http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas/aime01-ws.html.
-- 
Peter Lucas
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen 
Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048
E-mail: plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk; URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas