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CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Symposium on
Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/FHIES2013/
International Institute for Software Technology
United Nations University, Macau
21st-23rd August, 2013
BACKGROUND
ICT plays an increasingly enabling role in addressing the global challenges of
healthcare, in both the developed and the developing world. The use of software
in medical devices has caused growing concerns in relation to safety and
efficacy. The increasing adoption of health information systems provides great
potential benefits but also poses severe risks, both with respect to security
and privacy and in regard to patient safety. Hospital and other information
systems raise important issues of workflow support and interoperability.
Regulators, manufacturers and clinical users have pointed out the need to
research sound and science-based engineering methods that facilitate the
development and certification of quality ICT systems in health care. Such
methods may draw from or combine techniques from various disciplines, including
but not limited to software engineering, electronic engineering, computing
science, information science, mathematics, and industrial engineering.
AIMS
The purpose of the symposium series on Foundations of Health Information
Engineering and Systems is to promote a nascent research area that aims to
develop and apply theories and methods from a variety of disciplines for the
purpose of modeling, building and certifying software-intensive ICT systems in
healthcare. A particular objective of FHIES is to explicitly include a focus on
healthcare ICT applications in the developing world (in addition to systems
used in the developed countries), since unique engineering challenges arise in
that special setting. Because humans often play a pivotal role in the process
of using such systems, theories from the human factors engineering community
may need to be integrated with methods from the technology-oriented domains in
order to create effective engineering methodologies for socio-technical systems
in the healthcare domain. Previous FHIES symposia were held in 2011, in
Mabalingwe, South Africa (with post-conference proceedings in Springer LNCS
7151, and in 2012, in Paris, France (with post-conference proceedings to appear
in Springer LNCS).
SCOPE
FHIES seeks contributions from both the solution domain (engineering methods)
and the problem domain (healthcare and health informatics). Solution-domain
papers should present their methods in the context of a concrete application in
healthcare, while problem-domain papers should be devised to educate the
methods community about unique challenges and characteristics of the healthcare
domain. Submissions should seek to inform and further the development,
adaptation, evaluation and adoption of formally based and rigorous engineering
methods in health care systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited
to:
* modelling, analysis, simulation and verification in health informatics;
* design and verification techniques for software-based ICT and
software-intensive medical devices;
* application and integration of foundational methods from different
disciplines in engineering and science to health informatics;
* specific engineering challenges of ICT-based health service delivery in
different settings, especially in the developing world.
For a more detailed list of topics, see the symposium website.
CATEGORIES
We solicit high quality full submissions in the following categories:
* original research contributions (16 pages max)
* application experience, case studies and software prototypes (16 pages max.)
* surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (16 pages max.)
* position papers identifying challenges and milestones of a research project
(8 pages max.)
We also invite short submissions for special sessions:
* student papers on work in progress on an MSc or PhD project (4 pages max.)
* tool demonstrations (2 pages max.)
* proposals to organize birds-of-a-feather sessions or panels (2 pages max.)
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should be in English, prepared in the LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and all page limits are
measured in this format. Full submissions (those in the first four categories
above) will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field,
technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the symposium; student
papers will be judged on clarity of description and the promise of interesting
results; tool demonstrations and BOF proposals will be judged on relevance to
the symposium. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three program
committee members. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair, at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fhies2013
Submission constitutes a commitment for at least one author to attend the
symposium and present the paper, if it is accepted.
PUBLICATION
All accepted submissions will be distributed in a technical report at the
Symposium. After the event, postproceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.
Authors of all accepted full submissions will be invited to revise their
papers, in order to resolve any larger issues raised during reviewing. Authors
of accepted short submissions will be invited to submit full papers for review
and LNCS publication too. In addition, a special issue of a suitable journal
is planned, focusing on the overall objectives of FHIES: this will have an open
call for contributions.
IMPORTANT DATES
Intention to submit: April 29th
Submission deadline: May 6th
Notification of acceptance: June 12th
Delivery of preproceedings version: July 17th
Symposium: August 21st-23rd
Submission for postproceedings review: October 4th
Notification of acceptance: October 11th
Camera ready version: October 18th
Publication of proceedings: December 23rd
ORGANIZERS
General chairs:
* Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, MO
* Jens Weber, University of Victoria, CA
Programme chairs:
* Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK
* Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, CA
Programme committee:
* Ime Asangansi, University of Oslo, NO
* Tom Broens, Mobihealth, NL
* Lori Clarke, University of Massachusetts, US
* David Clifton, University of Oxford, UK
* Gerry Douglas, University of Pittsburgh, US
* Johannes Faber, IIST, United Nations University, MO
* Jozef Hooman, Embedded Systems Institute and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
* Michaela Huhn, Technische Universität Clausthal, DE
* Shinsako Kiyomoto, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc, JP
* Craig Kuziemsky, University of Ottawa, CA
* Yngve Lamo, Bergen University College, NO
* Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, US
* Orlando Loques, Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense, BR
* Gilbert Maiga, Makerere University, UG
* Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, LORIA, FR
* Deshendran Moodley, University of KwaZulu-Natal, ZA
* Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, LU
* Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, DE
* Ita Richardson, Lero, University of Limerick, IE
* David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Christopher Seebregts, Jembi Health Systems / Medical Research Council, ZA
* Bo Song, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, CN
* Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, CA
Keynote speakers:
* Joe Cafazzo, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CA
* Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, TW
* Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, IN
