<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Arial,Microsoft Yahei,Simsun,sans-serif';font-size:medium"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The 2nd International Workshop on<br>
Pervasive and Ambient Applications, Systems and Technologies for Healthcare<br>(<span class="il" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">PASTH</span> 2012)<br>
<br> In conjunction with ANT 2012<br> 27-29 August, 2012<br> Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada<br><br> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pasth2012/home/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://sites.google.com/site/pasth2012/home/</a><br>
<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>---------------<br><br>Paper Submission: Mar. 31, 2012(Extended)<br>Author Notification: April 10, 2012<br>Final Manuscript: May 10, 2012<br><br><br>Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence are evolving and<br>
playing a vital role in the advancement of the modern Computing and<br>Information Technology research. They encompass a broad range of aspects,<br>such as mobile and wireless computing, wearable computing, sensor based<br>
systems, context aware computing, RFIDs, distributed computing, artificial<br>intelligence, virtual reality and human computer interaction. These<br>technological aspects have a significant impact on various industries in<br>
our society, and healthcare is one of them. With the social, economical and<br>technical needs and challenges, the healthcare and medical industry is<br>continuously exploring and exploiting these emerging technologies,<br>
applications and paradigms for improved, reliable, efficient,<br>cost-effective, collaborative and secure multi-purpose solutions.<br><br>This workshop (<span class="il" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">PASTH</span> 2012) aims to bring together the multi-disciplinary<br>
researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and<br>industry, who are involved in the fields of computing / information<br>technology and healthcare / medical care. It encourages innovative research<br>
contributions providing the recent and significant developments of mobile /<br>pervasive / ambient applications, systems, technologies, environments and<br>infrastructures in the fields of healthcare / medical care, and other<br>
similar domains, such as public health and pharmaceutical industry.<br><br>Topics of Interest<br>==================<br><br>This workshop invites the researchers to submit their completed or ongoing<br>work contributions for the following main topics of interests. The papers<br>
with topics from related / similar areas will also be considered.<br><br> Mobile devices and Electronic Health Records (EHR)<br> Pervasive health and mobile health applications<br> Information and knowledge processing in pervasive healthcare environments<br>
Wireless technologies for smart home and hospitals<br> Wireless emergency response systems<br> Telemedicine applications and systems for healthcare delivery<br> Context aware applications for patient monitoring and care<br>
User interface design for wireless healthcare applications<br> Collaboration technologies for healthcare<br> Emerging m-health applications<br> M-health applications in public health and pharmacy<br> Healthgrids<br>
Cloud computing for healthcare<br> Virtual reality in healthcare<br> Virtual environments for healthcare<br> RFID solutions for healthcare<br> Design and development of ambient healthcare systems<br> Privacy and security in pervasive and ambient healthcare systems<br>
Ambient assisted living for elderly care<br> Sensor based decision support systems<br> Embedded system architectures in healthcare<br> Activity recognition in smart healthcare environments<br> Wearable intelligence for healthcare<br>
Intelligent medical devices, sensors and systems<br> Intelligent medical applications for mobile devices<br> Intelligent agent architectures for smart healthcare environments<br> Sensing and actuating systems for patient care<br>
Related real world experimentations and case studies<br><br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br>================<br><br>All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the<br> open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The<br>
submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of guidelines<br>of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier. Authors<br>should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length using the Easychair<br>
submission system,<br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasth12" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pasth12</a><br><br>The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further<br>
revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.<br><br>Organization Committees<br>=======================<br><br>Program Chairs<br> Dr. Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center<br>
(KAIMRC), Saudi Arabia<br> Dr. Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey<br>Organization Committees<br><br>Steering Committee Chair<br> Prof. Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<br><br>Publicity Chairs<br>Peizhao Hu, National ICT Australia, Australia<br>
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R.China<br><br>Technical Program Committee<br> Firdous Kausar, Imam University, Riyadh, KSA<br> Ali Beklen, IBM, Turkey<br> Abdallah MHAMED, Handicom Lab, Telecom& Management SudParis, France<br>
Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA<br> Esko Alasaarela, University of Oulu, Finland<br> Paul D. Yoo, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research<br>(KUSTAR), UAE<br> Carolyn Mcgregor, University Of Ontario Institute Of Technology, Canada<br>
Anastasia Kastania, Athens University Of Economics & Business, Greece<br> Gregor Stiglic, University Of Maribor, Slovenia<br> Carlos Fernandez Llatas, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain<br> Gayo Diallo, Universite Segalen Bordeaux, France<br>
Andreas Schrader, University Of Lubeck, Germany<br> Foad Dabiri, University Of California Los Angeles, USA<br> Peizhao Hu, National ICT Australia, Australia<br> Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia<br> Petra Knaup-gregori, University Of Heidelberg, Germany<br>
TBC</span></span>