[ecoop-info] FHIES 2011: 2nd Call for Papers

[Jun PANG]

                               FHIES 2011
                    International Symposium on
Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems
              (http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC/FHIES2011/)
         27-29 August 2011 Mabalingwe Nature Reserve, South Africa
                 (Colocated with ICTAC 2011)

Information and communication technology plays an increasingly
enabling role in addressing the global challenges of healthcare, in
both the developed and the developing world, that are the concern of
the United Nations, its Peoples and Members States. The use of
software in medical devices is already raising issues in relation to
safety and efficacy for manufacturers and regulators. Health
information systems raise issues of both privacy and confidentiality,
on the one hand, and, increasingly, patient safety on the
other. Hospital and other information systems raise important issues
of efficacy and interoperability. However, to capitalize on the
potential of this technology in reshaping healthcare demands focused
research on sound and safe development techniques from software
engineering, electronic engineering, computing science, information
science, mathematics, and industrial engineering.

Aims
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The purpose of the new symposium series on Foundations of Software
Engineering Health Informatics (FHIES) is to promote a nascent
research area that aims to develop and apply theories and techniques
in computing science and software engineering to modelling, building
and certifying software based systems in the application domain of
healthcare. Many of these systems are already regulated in many
jurisdictions and many more of them will become regulated in the
future.

Research on theories, techniques and tools of software modelling,
verification and validation has been an important area of computer
science and software engineering, known as Formal Methods. This
research addresses the challenging problem of design and certification
of safety or mission critical software systems through abstraction and
decomposition techniques based on the use of mathematical modelling
theories and sound engineering methods.  Formal methods have primarily
addressed the correctness of systems used in the industrial,
financial, and defense applications. However, they have recently found
application in modelling and analysis of complex systems that involve
interacting behaviour of many kinds of objects and agents, including
software systems, physical objects and humans. The models of these
systems have both discrete and continuous behaviour, and both
qualitative and quantitative (e.g., spatial timing and probabilistic)
properties. It is believed that these methods can be used for
modelling problems of health informatics, which presents the challenge
of scalability.

Software plays a critical role in sustainable health care, both as
part of the solution and as part of the problem.  Software intensive
information systems are needed to support the collection and
processing of vast amounts of data via different devices, and allow
policy makers to access and share these data, and to support their
decision making and validation. Software systems can be developed for
managing, controlling and monitoring policies, processes and workflows
in medical systems. Software systems can be developed to help create
the sophisticated medical devices that are simply impossible to build
without the software. On the other hand, the application of software
raises challenging issues in safety, security and privacy, and
increases the complexity of healthcare workflows and the need for new
business policies.

Paper Submissions
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We solicit high quality submissions reporting on

  1. original research contributions (18 pages maximum in LNCS format)
  2. application experience, case studies and software prototypes (18
  pages maximum in LNCS format)
  3. surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (18 pages
  maximum in LNCS format)
  4. position papers that define research projects with identified
  challenges and milestones (10 pages maximum in LNCS format)
  5. proposals for panel discussions, with at least three named
  panellists, about a topical question (5 pages maximum in LNCS
  format).

All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality,
contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and
relevance to the conference. Submissions should be in English,
prepared in the LNCS format (see here for details). Submission
constitutes a commitment to attend and present a paper, if accepted.

All accepted papers will be included in the pre-event proceedings of
the symposium and considered for EXCEPT FOR the proposals for panel
discussions inclusion in a special issue of the Springer Journal
"Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering" (ISSE), following
revision and re-review. The post proceedings will include a brief
summary of panel discussions.

Important Dates
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Abstract Submission 	        29    May 2011
Paper Submission 	        5     June 2011
Notification of acceptance 	18    July 2011
Final copy for proceedings 	7     August 2011
FHIES 2011 	                29-30 August 2011

Organization
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General Chairs

   * Peter Haddawy, UNU-IIST, Macao
   * Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada

Programme Chairs

   * Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao
   * Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada

Organising Chair

   * Hao Wang, UNU-IIST, Macao

Program Committee

   * Syed Mohamed Aljunid, UNU-IIGH
   * Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo, Canada
   * Peter Haddawy, UNU-IIST, Macao
   * Jozef Hooman, Embedded Systems Institute and Radboud University
     Nijmegen, The Netherlands
   * Michaela Huhn, TU Clausthal, Germany
   * Mark Lawford, McMaster University, Canada
   * Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
   * Martin Leucker, TU Munich, Germany
   * Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
   * Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada
   * Dominique Mery, LORIA and Universite Henri Poincare Nancy 1,
     France
   * Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
   * David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK
   * Lutz Schroeder, DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen, Germany
   * Jens H. Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
   * Liang Xiao, Hubei University of Technology, P.R.China