Call for Papers and Important Dates

IMPORTANT DATES  

Abstract submission:     September 30, 2024 September 17, 2024

Paper submission:        September 30, 2024 September 24, 2024

Notification to authors: October 06-13, 2024 October 06-13, 2024

Camera-ready copy due: October 27, 2024 October 20, 2024

Main Workshop held on: November 27-28, 2024

Working Group meeting: During the workshop

The Workshop

Following the success of the first two editions, the HC@AIxIA workshop aims at gathering researchers from academia, industry and medical centres to present and discuss the latest research results and ongoing works related to the application and impact of AI in the healthcare domain, to the larger extent, thus aiming at covering a wide spectrum of topics, including theoretical and practical aspects, methodologies, technologies, and systems.

Topics include, ***but are not limited to***:

•  Machine learning methods, data mining and statistical methods for clinical decision support

•  Probabilistic graphical models for clinical decision-making and causal networks

•  Learning, representation and reasoning with time

•  Knowledge representation, reasoning and formal argumentation in healthcare:

•  Methods for diagnosis, treatment selection, treatment planning, and prognosis

•  Monitoring patients in healthcare

•  Ontologies and medical vocabularies

•  Personalized medicine

•  Computer-interpretable clinical guidelines

•  Support for natural language generation/understanding in connection with electronic patient records

•  Tools for supporting authoring, execution and maintenance of clinical protocols and guidelines

•  Tools for building and deployment of clinical decision-support systems

Contributions

The workshop will feature presentations of refereed contributions; four types of submissions are invited: 

• full papers (min 10 and up to 15 pages plus references);

• short papers (min 5 and up to 9 pages, including references): particularly suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes, extended abstracts of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects;

• systems or prototype software descriptions (min 5 and up to 9 pages, including references): must include a brief description, prepared according to the guidelines given for short papers, and a specification of the required hardware and software equipment. Systems of both research and industrial character are welcome. 

• papers already submitted/published to other conferences or journals (no page restrictions), i.e., non-original works suitable for dissemination and opening discussion.

Besides demos, some contributions might be invited to be presented as posters.

Submission Instructions 

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link:

• https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcaixia2024

Manuscripts should be formatted using the CEUR-ART style available at the link:

• https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html.

To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regular papers may add an appendix (although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation). 

All contributions must be written in English.

For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to:

•  register to AIxIA 2024 (see official website);

•  attend HC@AIxIA 2024 workshop and present the paper (each attendee should not present more than 2 works at the workshop).

The event is organized by AIxIA. 

Proceedings

All accepted original contributions (both full and short) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. Non-original communications will be given visibility on the workshop website, including a link to the original publication if already published. 

Journal Special Issue

Workshop post-proceedings will be part of a special issue of an international journal (TBD), provided that a sufficient amount of quality papers is collected. In such cases, authors of accepted papers (including non-originals, if not published in a journal yet) will be invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. A review formal process will be run to meet the expected quality of a journal. 

Working Group Meeting

All authors of accepted papers are invited to participate in the annual meeting of the AI and Healthcare Working Group of AIxIA, which will be held right after the workshop.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Bolzano, Italy; the event is organized by AIxIA 2024. 

Contacts

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hc-aixia@googlegroups.com.