Due to several requests, the deadline for paper submissions have been
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                       Second Call for Papers

                              AIME'01

Eighth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

                1- 4 July 2001, Cascais, Portugal

The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME),
established in 1986, aims at fostering fundamental and applied research
in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to medical care
and medical research, providing a forum for reporting significant
results achieved at biennial conferences. This conference will be the
next of a series of international conferences, held biennially over the
last 14 years

SCOPE

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory,
techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the evaluation
of health care programmes. Contributions to theory may include
presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies
potentially useful to solve medical problems. Papers on techniques
should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their
implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the
proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation
of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present
sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of
the system.

The scope includes the following areas:
· Knowledge acquisition and its representation, refinement, validation
and maintenance
· Machine learning and data mining
· Decision support systems, including knowledge based systems, neural
networks, belief networks, and statistical models
· Uncertain, temporal,  and case based reasoning
· Planning and scheduling
· Natural language generation and understanding
· Computer vision, image and signal interpretation
· Intelligent agents and information retrieval
· Telemedicine and knowledge management in intranets and the Internet,
including careflow systems
· Cognitive modeling

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages, and
should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format. See details in
                http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the Conference Web page
               http://centria.fct.unl.pt/conferences/aime01.

Important dates

Receipt of full papers           31 January 2001
Notification of acceptance       23 March 2001
Final camera-ready manuscripts   13 April 2001

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will
be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In
addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand
and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

As in previous editions, proposals for the organisation of tutorials and
satelite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.
Please contact directly Steen Andreassen (tutorials and workshops
chairman) for updated information and proposals.

WEB PAGE

For full details about submissions and updated news about the conference
please visit the web page

http://centria.fct.unl.pt/conferences/aime01.
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