History of HIMAS Workshops

This International Workshop on Healthcare Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems (HIMAS) 2020 extends a long track record and experience in our organising team dating back to a number of related workshop series dating back to 2002.


The list of regular workshops since 2002 is online here: https://paginas.fe.up.pt/~a2hc19/index.html


First workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2002 in Lyon, France. Organised by Antonio Moreno (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, URV), Ulises Cortés (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, UPC) and John Fox (Cancer Research UK, CRUK). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed. A.Moreno, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2003).http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/


Second workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2004 in Valencia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), John Nealon (Oxford Brookes University, OBU) and John Fox (CRUK). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: John Nealon, Vol. 18, Issue 3, 2005).


Third workshop on agents applied in health care - IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC) and John Nealon (OBU). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems (Ed: A.Moreno, Vol. 21, Issue 6, December 2006).


Fourth workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), Roberta Annicchiarico (Fondazione Santa Lucia, FSL) and John Nealon (OBU). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in the book Agent technology and e-health (Eds: R.Annicchiarico, U.Cortés, C.Urdiales), Whitestein series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, 2007.


Fifth workshop on agents applied in health care - AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC) and Roberta Annicchiarico (FSL).


Sixth workshop on agents applied in health care - eHealth 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Roberta Annicchiarico (FSL), Magi Lluch (MicroArt) and David Isern (URV).http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/ehealth2010/


Seventh workshop on agents applied in health care - AAMAS 2012 in Valencia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Magi Lluch (Informatics Research Institute) and David Isern (URV). Expanded versions of the workshop papers are being considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/aamas2012/


Eighth workshop on agents applied in health care - AIME 2013 in Murcia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Mr. Magi Lluch (BDigital), Dr. Helena Lindgren (Univ. of Umea, Umea, Sweden), Dr. Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland) and Dr. David Isern (URV).http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/aime2013/


Ninth workshop on agents applied in health care - A2HC 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. Organised by Daniel Castro Silva (University of Porto, Portugal), Pedro Henriques Abreu (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Cristian Barrué (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) and Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland).http://fe.up.pt/~a2hc15


Tenth workshop on agents applied in health care - A2HC 2017 in São Paulo, Brasil. Organised by Daniel Castro Silva (University of Porto, Portugal), Sara Montagna (University of Bologna, Italy), Pedro Henriques Abreu (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Eloisa Vargiu (Fundació Eurecat - eHealth Unit, Spain), Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland) and Márcia Ito (IBM Brazil / Faculty of Technology of São Paulo, Brazil).http://fe.up.pt/~a2hc17


Other related workshops were hold within the last years:

  • o Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AIH 2018 (held with IJCAI-ECAI, AAMAS and ICML 2018)
  • o Multi-Agent Systems for Healthcare (MASH'14) (held with AAMAS 2014) http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~mash14/
  • o Agents for Ambient Assisted Living (AAAL11 (held with PAAMS 2011)
  • o Agents for Ambient Assisted Living (AAAL12) (held with PAAMS 2012)http://www.paams.net/AAAL12/
  • o Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for Ambient Assisted Living and e-HEALTH 2013 http://www.paams.net/a-health13/