ETPHA 2017 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Pervasive Healthcare and Applications (ETPHA 2017)

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Pervasive Healthcare and Applications (ETPHA 2017)
Dalian, China, 12-15 October 2017
Workshop Chairs:
Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. dr.m.imran-AT-ieee.org
Thaier Hayajneh, Fordham University, USA. thayajneh-AT-fordham.edu
Scope:
Recent advances in sensing, computing, communication and networking technologies have paved the way to dangle unprecedented pervasive healthcare applications and services. For example, body sensor networks (BSNs) employ numerous miniaturized, portable, and
autonomous sensing devices in, on, or around the body for pervasive health monitoring such as predicting contingency abnormal condition and treatment of chronic diseases including diabetes and hypertension. Moreover, BSNs can help in determining contextaware
psychological classification (e.g., personality type, mood, psychological condition) in real-time based on physiological parameters (e.g. body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, and brain impulses), which can revolutionize human-interactions.
Other potential applications may include activity scheduling based on circadian rhythms, social network computing, interactive gaming, driver drowsiness detection, and entertainment.
Nonetheless, enormous amount of critical data (Big Data) collected through various BSN nodes require fast, reliable, on-demand, scalable, secure, and powerful communication (e.g., 5G) and computing infrastructure (e.g., cloud computing). However, integration of these
technologies introduces new social, legal, technical and security challenges.
The aim of this workshop is to foster high quality original, unpublished research papers that articulate recent advancements on the domain. Accepted and duly presented workshop papers will be published in the IEEE Healthcom Conference Proceedings and indexed in IEEE
Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/), the IEEE digital repository. Moreover, extended version of selected high quality papers will be invited for exclusive consideration in the special issues of well-recognized domain journals besides EAI Transactions on Pervasive Health
and Technology.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
 Emerging communication and networking technologies (e.g. 5G, BSN, RFID) for pervasive healthcare
 Cloud-assisted BSNs
 Architectures, protocols, algorithms, and standards for pervasive healthcare
 Integration of communication and networking technologies for pervasive healthcare
 Governance issues and solutions for e-health and m-health
 Sensing, communication, networking and actuation technologies
E-health and m-health applications and services
 Privacy, security, trust and survivability in pervasive healthcare
 Healthcare services in smart environments including smart homes, medical centres and smart cities)
 Quality of Service (QoS) for e-health applications and services.
Submission Guidelines:
Papers have to follow IEEE format requirements and have to be written in English. Full
details of submission procedure are available at: http://ieeehealthcom2017.com/call-forsubmission.
Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22367