2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2020)
https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2020/
December 16-19, 2020, Seoul, South Korea
Organizer: Ester Zumpano (DIMES - Università della Calabria), Elio Masciari (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Andrea Tagarelli (DIMES - Università della Calabria)
The world is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdown measures and drastic restrictions of moviments and social life are affecting the lives of billions of people. Covid-19 is the most significant global crisis since the Second World War, but its repercussions are exceeding those of a war. At the time of this writing, May 9, 2020, the total confirmed Covid-19 deaths are 263.288 and this number is likely to be understimated. All countries worldwide are living this crisis and all has changed around us: habits, social relationships, work, sport, school, research, economic relations, political organizations. The actual situation shows that no country was fully prepared to manage such a massive disease outbreak: health care systems are in overload operation status, governments are mostly unprepared and social policies are not sufficient.
Scientific community has to work hand-in-hand to provide a full comprehension of the Covid-19 pandemic to mitigate its repercussions on the different domains of our society and to forecast effective strategies, solutions, tools and methods to tackle Covid-19 and (hopely none) future pandemics.
Research topics
The workshop “Artificial Intelligence & Big Data vs Pandemics” aims at bringing together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present effective strategies, solutions, tools and methods to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and possible future pandemics. AI&BDvsPandemics is expected to cover both theoretical and practical aspects, as well as technologies and tools of AI in biomedicine, healthcare and wellbeing. The workshop will cover a wide spectrum of topics, from those aimed at easing and supporting healthcare professionals' work to those devoted to improving patients’ lives. The workshop also aims at discussing computational models, social computing, lessons learned, practical solutions that address topics related to pandemics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Health Care Information Systems for pandemics
AI in Medical Imaging for pandemics
Propagation models in pandemics disease
Epidemiology models to predict pandemics
AI-based modeling and management of healthcare pathways and clinical guidelines in pandemics
Image informatics for diagnosis in pandemics
Tools for monitoring patients in pandemics
Wearable Tools for monitoring patients in pandemics
Applications of AI in Wellbeing Systems in pandemics
Advanced tools for learning in pandemics
Machine and Deep learning approaches for treatment and prediction in pandemics
Important Dates:
Nov 8, 2020 (AoE): Due date for full workshop papers submission
Nov 10, 2020: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
Nov. 26, 2020: Camera-ready of accepted papers
Dec. 16-18, 2020: Workshop
Paper Submission:
Length of paper
Full-paper: 8 pages
Short-paper: 2 pages
Please submit a paper (up to 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
All accepted accepted will be included in the main conference proceedings which are included in the IEEE digital library indexed by Google Scholar and Scopus.
Special Issues on important Journals are also planned.
Online Submission Web Site:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bibm20/index.php
Program Chairs
Ester Zumpano - DIMES University of Calabria, e.zumpano@dimes,.unical.it
http://people.dimes.unical.it/esterzumpano/
Elio Masciari, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, elio.masciari@unina.it
Andrea Tagarelli - DIMES University of Calabria, tagarelli@dimes.unical.it
http://people.dimes.unical.it/andreatagarelli/
Program Committee Members (tentative)
Aida Kamišalić Latifić, University of Maribor, Slovenija (aida.kamisalic@um.si)
Domenico Ursino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy (d.ursino@univpm.it)
Roberto Interdonato, CIRAD, UMR Tetis, Montpellier, France (roberto.interdonato@cirad.fr)
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA (carlotta@cs.gmu.edu)
Francesco Gullo, Unicredit R&D, Italy (gullof@acm.org)
Shahab Shamshirband, Open AI Lab, NTNU, Norway (shahaboddin.shamshirband@tdt.edu.vn)
Carmela Comito, ICAR-CNR, Italy (carmela.comito@icar.cnr.it)
Luigi Pontieri, ICAR-CNR, Italy (luigi.pontieri@icar.cnr.it)
Vishal Sharma, Utah State University, USA (vishal.sharma@usu.edu)
Marcello La Rosa, University of Melbourne, Australia (marcello.larosa @unimelb.edu.au)
Luciano Caroprese, ICAR-CNR, Italy (luciano.caroprese@icar.cnr.it)
Ester Zumpano - DIMES University of Calabria (e.zumpano@dimes,.unical.it)
Gerardo I. Simari, University of Oxford, UK (gerardo.simari@cs.ox.ac.uk)
Luca Virgili, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy ( l.virgili@pm.univpm.it )
Eugenio Vocaturo, DIMES University of Calabria (e.vocaturo@dimes.unical.it)
Steering Committee Members
Luciano Caroprese (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy)
Ester Zumpano (DIMES - University of Calabria, Italy)
Eugenio Vocaturo (DIMES - University of Calabria, Italy)
Carmela Comito (National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy)