[UAI] AIME 05: Call for Partizipation 
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AIME'05


. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION




for the Tenth Conference on
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

July 23 - 27, 2005, Aberdeen, UK
www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05

Co-located with IJCAI-2005
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The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), was 
established in

1986 with two main goals: 1) to foster fundamental and applied research in the

application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and 
medical

research, and 2) to provide a forum for reporting significant results 
achieved at

biennial conferences. Additionally, AIME assists medical industrialists to 
identify new

AI techniques with high potential for integration into new products. A 
major activity of

this society has been a series of international conferences, from Marseille 
(FR) in 1987

to Protaras, Cyprus in 2003, held biennially over the last 18 years.

The AIME'05 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the

international state of the art of AI in Medicine from both a research and an

applications perspective. For this purpose, AIME'05 will include invited 
lectures,

contributed full and short papers, system demonstrations, tutorials, and 
workshops.


AIME 05 Highlights
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Invited Speakers
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     * Frank van Harmelen
     * Paul Lukowicz


Frank van Harmelen
Artificial Intelligence Department
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Ontology Mapping: A Way out of the Medical Tower of Babel?

Dealing with large amounts of heterogeneous data is one of the crucial 
challenges in

modern Computer Science, and Medical Informatics is no exception: handling 
patient data

from different sources, searching through large volumes of research 
literature, and

integrating information systems all require that we are able to integrate 
data from very

different sources using very different vocabularies.

In recent years, ontologies have been touted as a new and promising 
solution to this old

problem: hierarchically organised, shared vocabularies that formalise the 
semantics of

terms. The promise is that mapping between such ontologies provides a 
solution to

dealing with heterogeneous data-sources.

In this talk I will survey different approaches to ontology-mapping, covering

linguistic, statistical and logical methods. The state of the art will be 
illustrated

through a number of recent applications that employ ontology mappings, 
specifically in

the medical domain. At the end of the talk, we should hopefully have an 
answer if, and

to what extent ontology mapping is our way out of the terminological tower 
of Babel.

Bio: Frank van Harmelen is professor in Knowledge Representation and 
Reasoning at the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was awarded a PhD from the Department of 
AI in

Edinburgh for his research on meta-level reasoning, after having studied 
Mathematics and

Computer Science in Amsterdam. His research is in the modelling and 
representation of

different forms of knowledge and reasoning, as found in a large variety of 
AI systems,

with an interest in both applications and theory. He has made key 
contributions to the

CommonKADS methodology for developing knowledge-based system by providing a 
formal basis

for the conceptual models. In recent years, he has been very active in 
developments

around the Semantic Web. One of his five books is the first text book on 
Semantic Web

technology. He is involved in numerous European Semantic Web projects, and 
he was one of

the designers of the W3C standard ontology language OWL. He was the Program 
Chair of the

ECAI 2002, the General Chair of the 2004 International Semantic Web 
Conference, and will

chair the Semantic Web track of the 2005 World Wide Web conference.


Paul Lukowicz
Institute for Computer Systems and Networks
University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
UMIT Hall in. Tirol

Human Computer Interaction in Context-Aware Wearable Systems

Today in nearly any situation there is guaranteed to be a piece of useful 
information

somewhere on the network. It includes such trivial everyday things like 
restaurant menus

and transportation delays, building plans (relevant for rescue personnel), 
patient

records (needed for example by emergency medics) and multimedia manuals 
(for maintenance

and assembly work). However today most people use their connected devices 
predominantly

for conventional telephony, email access, scheduling and an occasional 
photograph.

Despite a strong push by service providers accessing online information in 
a mobile

environment is still the exception.

To a large degree the limited use of mobile connected devices can be 
attributed to the

inadequacies of the current interaction paradigm. The talk will describe a 
new approach

to solving this problem: so called context-aware wearable systems. Such 
systems attempt

to automatically recognize the needs of the user and deliver the correct 
information at

the correct time and place in a discrete, non-disturbing way. In the 
simplest case the

context used to model the users needs system might be just time and 
location. In more

advanced applications it would include user activity (walking, standing, 
going to work,

performing a particular maintenance task), environment state (e.g 
examination of a

specific patient) and background information such as the users schedule or 
habits. In

the talk our work on context recognizing using simple sensors (accelerometers,

unltrasonic location, microphones etc.) mounted in the users outfit and 
the environment

will be presented. Specific applications from health care related areas 
will be

discussed.

Bio: Paul Lukowicz holds a MSc in Computer Science, and MSc in Physics and 
an Ph.D in

Computer Science all from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1999 
till 2003 he

was a senior researcher at the ETH ZÃ¼rich in charge of the wearable Computing

Laboratory. Since 2003 he has been Professor of Computer Engineering the 
University for

Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Hall (Insbruck) in 
Austria. His

research interest include ubiquitous system architectures, context 
awareness and novel

applications enabled by the two, with an emphasis on healthcare related 
areas. He has

also worked on parallel computing systems and optical interconnects. Paul 
Lukowicz is

active in a number of European Union sponsored research project.
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Doctoral Consortium
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An important new feature of the AIME conferences is the Doctoral Consortium 
(organized

by Elpida Keravnou) held for the first time in the context of AIME.



http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/doctoral_consortium.shtml



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Early Registration:
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registration for AIME 05 at the standard rate finishes on June 30, 2005



Looking forward to meet you in Aberdeen


Silvia Miksch, Vienna, Austria (Programme Committee Chair)
Jim Hunter, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Organizing Committee Chair)


