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We are pleased to announce the 3rd International Special Session on 
Smart Medical Devices, eHealth Systems, and Machine Learning on Medical 
Data (SmartMedDev), to be held on February 21 - 23, 2017 in Porto 
(Portugal) as part of 10th International Conference on Health 
Informatics (HEALTHINF).

http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/SmartMedDev.aspx


MISSION:
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The goal of this special session is to discuss the problems hindering 
the widespread adoption of smart medical devices - software based, 
wireless, implantable and wearable - including issues related to the 
quality of monitored data, the ability to retrieve information and use 
it in health context, as for example in tasks related to machine 
learning, knowledge discovery, decision support, regression, 
forecasting, optimization, feature selection, and additionally privacy 
and security issues of health data while being processed, availability 
of health data, and tele-monitoring.
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the problems, we would like to 
gather a balanced group of device and sensors developers, system 
integrators and developers, knowledge and decision support experts, and 
clinical practitioners and provide them a convenient forum for 
discussion and exchange.
We encourage authors to submit papers to one of the main topics 
indicated below, or to open new perspectives and present novel points of 
view on this highly dynamic and important research and application 
field. Lessons learned from actual implementations of devices and 
systems, prospective frameworks, future visions and position papers are 
equally invited.


TOPICS:
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Topics of Interest include, among others:
     - Smart sensors/actuators
     - Smart devices
     - Patient health systems
     - eHealth/mHealth platforms and initiatives
     - Integrated patient systems with hospital infrastructure
     - Interoperability in Health Systems and Data
     - Solutions for heterogeous health data and/or sensors
     - Patient in the loop
     - Medical Cyber Physical Systems
     - Security and privacy in health data management and use of 
sensors/devices
     - Analisys of Medical Data: machine learning, knowledge discovery,etc
     - Decision Support Systems
     - Applications of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing, and 
Artificial Intelligence methods to any of the above topics


PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Authors are invited to submit full papers in any of the topics listed 
above written in English, with around 8 to 10 pages, with the 
appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, 
graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or 
more than 13 pages will be automatically rejected. Submissions should 
contain original material and not be previously published, or currently 
submitted for consideration elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed for 
scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee. Paper submission 
implies the willingness of at least one author to register and present 
the paper.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) 
are available at: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/Templates.aspx
Please also check the http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/Guidelines.aspx.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission 
system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris


PUBLICATION:
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All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the 
conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM 
support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference 
Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering 
Village Index) and Scopus. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef 
(http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital 
Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the 
SCITEPRESS Digital Library.


JOURNAL FAST-TRACK PUBLICATION:
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Furthermore, a selection of the best accepted papers related to the 
applications of Computational Intelligence / Soft Computing / Artificial 
Intelligence topics, suitably revised and extended, will be eligible for 
fast-track publication in Applied Soft Computing journal by Elsevier 
(Impact Factor 2.857), thanks to the technical sponsorship offered by 
the World Federation on Soft Computing.


IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission deadline: December 14, 2016 (EXTENDED and FIRM)
Notification: December 23, 2016
Camera-ready and Registration: January 05, 2017


BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A "Best Paper Award" will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper 
presented at the Special Session, selected by the Chairs based on the 
best combined marks of paper reviewing, assessed by the Program 
Committee, and paper presentation quality, assessed by Session Co-chairs 
at the conference venue.


FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/SmartMedDev.aspx