CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS

SPECIAL ISSUE of the JOURNAL
"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE"
(published by Elsevier)

Theme: Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive
       Care and Anaesthesia.
Guest-Editors: Michel Dojat, Silvia Miksch and Jim Hunter
INSERM Grenoble (FR), IFS Vienna (AT), Aberdeen U. (UK)


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*   Manuscript deadline: November 1 1999     *
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OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during
Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to
rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters,
selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options.
New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information
management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care
provided. Designing computerized systems to assist clinical staff in
monitoring, diagnosis and therapy planning tasks is a challenging goal that
requires the modeling of several levels of knowledge. The objective behind
this special issue is to report on state-of-the art of theoretical and
methodological developments for knowledge-based information management in
intensive care and anesthesia.

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Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

· quality control and assessment
· clinical guidelines and protocols
· computational methods for intelligent data analysis
· effective and efficient real-time monitoring (including intelligent
alarming)
· decision support
· fusion of data from heterogeneous sources
· multi-agent design, distributed architecture
· uncertain and temporal reasoning
· knowledge acquisition from physiological data
· information visualization
· information retrieval


GUIDELINES & SCHEDULE

All manuscripts will be evaluated according to their originality, technical
quality and clarity of presentation by at least two independent referees who
are authorities in the field.

A manuscript should be about 20 pages excluding tables and figures but
including the list of references. Manuscripts should be prepared in
accordance with the journal "submission guidelines",which are available on
request, and may also be retrieved from http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/aimed.

Three copies of a manuscript should be sent by surface mail before November
1st, 1999 to:

Michel Dojat
INSERM U438 "RMN Bioclinique"
CHU de Grenoble Pavillon B
BP 217
38043 Grenoble Cedex 9
Phone: 33 4 76 76 57 48
Fax: 33 4 76 76 58 96
email : [log in to unmask]

Electronic submissions (to [log in to unmask]) are strongly encouraged
in PDF or PS format only.

Perspective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the guest editor at
the address above and to declare their intention to participate in the
special issue as early as possible. To this end, please submit by email a
tentative title and a short summary before September 1st, 1999.

IMPORTANT DATES

      September 1, 1999
                      Submission of tentative title and abstract to declare
			    intention to submit paper
      November 1, 1999
                      Receipt of full papers
      January 31, 2000
                      Notification of acceptance
      March 1, 2000
                      Receipt of final-version of manuscripts
      November 2000
                      Publication of AIM special issue






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