UHH 2011 - International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare

2011 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare (UHH)

September 19-21, 2011, Szczecin, Poland

WEBSITE: http://uhh.fedcsis.org.

Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore(R) database
(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp)and indexed in the DBLP
(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/). Extended versions of
selected papers will be considered for Special Issues of: International
Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics
(http://www.aspbs.com/jmihi/), March 2012, (American Scientific Publishers).

Detailed information about the Workshop are presented below and at the
website: http://uhh.fedcsis.org.

TOPICS

Topics

The workshop welcomes all work related to ubiquitous healthcare, but
with a focus on the following themes (this list is not exhaustive):

- Ubiquitous healthcare information systems,
- Information processing algorithms for UHH,
- Ubiquitous services for home and mobile applications,
- Human-system interaction in UHH,
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in ubiquitous healthcare,
- Integration of sensors and devices for UHH,
- Security of ubiquitous healthcare systems,
- Ensuring the Availability, Transparency, Seamlessness, Awareness, and
Trustworthiness (A.T.S.A.T.) of home and mobile systems,
- Standardization in ubiquitous home healthcare,
- Applications of UHH for elderly, sick, and disabled people,
- Elderly care monitored dosage systems,
- Welfare technology for UHH.

The proposed papers should emphasize at least one of the following aspects:

- Assisted living,
- Home care,
- Self care,
- Mobile care.

Best paper award

During the closing ceremony the best paper award will be presented.
Selection criteria will be based on results of the reviewing process and
the quality of the presentation.

Paper submission

- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the symposium.

- Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore(R) database
(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp)and indexed in the DBLP
(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/).

- Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).

- The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at the website.

- Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for Special
Issues of:
- International Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics
(http://www.aspbs.com/jmihi/), March 2012, (American Scientific
Publishers), Guest editor: Jacek Ruminski.
- and possibly other journals that will be announced later.

- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.

Information for authors: http://www.fedcsis.org/?q=node/22

Important dates:

- Paper Submissions: May 31, 2011
- Authors Notifications: June 30, 2011
- Final Submissions and Registrations: July 31, 2011
- The Conference Dates: September 19 - 21, 2011

Scientific/program committee:

- Jerzy Wtorek (chairperson), Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland
- Piotr Augustyniak, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Adam Bujnowski, GUT, Poland
- Jan Cornelis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Jens Haueisen, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
- Zdzislaw S. Hippe, University of IT and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
- Eddie YK Ng, Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore
- Nicolas Pallikarakis, University of Patras, Greece
- Artur Polinski, GUT, Poland
- Ewaryst Tkacz, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
- Stefan Wagner, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Krzysztof Zaremba,Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Jacek Ruminski,GUT, Poland

Further information:

The Workshop is a part of the FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, FedCSIS 2011, www.fedcsis.org
(http://www.fedcsis.org/)