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March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Brazil
Special
Track on Computer Applications in Health Care (CAHC)
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1. SAC 2008
For the
last twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been
a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers,
software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC
2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing,
and is hosted this year by The University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and
the Federal University of Cearα (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil. For additional information,
please visit the ACM
SAC 2008 web site.
2. Special track
on Computer Applications in Health Care
Advances in hardware and software development have allowed
more and better techniques in order to building applications in the health
area, by using computational concepts and methods. On the other hand, this
area also has searched for computational aids, providing new topics of investigation
and, consequently, demanding new computational techniques development. In
general, the applications explore different domains of computer science, like
database, image processing, distributed systems, graphics computer, virtual
reality, software engineering, among others. Also the applications integrate
several new techniques to construct systems like Computer Aided Diagnosis,
Information Visualization, Computer Aided Surgery, Telemedicine, Procedures
Simulation and Phobias Treatments.
The track Computer Applications in Health of SAC2008 aim to provide a space
for discussion and experience exchange for researchers, students, professors
and professionals that are interested in the development of this area. Topics
of interest include the following, but not exclusively:
Artificial Intelligence in Health
Computer Aided Diagnosis
Database in Health
Decision support systems
Evidence-based health care
Human-Computer Interaction in Health
Information Systems and PACS
Medical Education
Multimedia in Health
Other computer application in health
care.
Signal and Image Processing in Health
Software Engineering in Health
Telemedicine
Virtual and Augmented Reality in Health
Web Applications in Health
3. Submissions in
2008 edition of SAC Special Track on Computer Applications in Health Care
Submissions fall into the following categories:
Original and unpublished research work;
Reports of innovative computing applications in the sciences, and engineering
areas of Health Care;
Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains;
Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems.
Peer reviewers with expertise in the track focus areas will blindly
review submissions to this track. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Accepted
papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC 2008 proceedings.
In addition, the possibility of organizing special issues in journals related
to the themes of the track is examined. These Special Issues will include
a collection of the best papers accepted in the track.
A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will
be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts
in the symposium proceedings.
Please note that we are not soliciting for just poster papers. We will select
the poster papers from the submitted pool of reviewed, regular papers.
Paper submissions should be in PDF format.
Papers spanning more
than one track should be submitted to one track only.
4. Guidelines for
paper submission
The following
paper submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
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Submit
the full paper in PDF format to the web site by Saturday September 8,
2007. (Hardcopy, fax or
submissions in other wierd formats such as Word will not be considered).
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The
name(s) and address(es) of the author(s) must not appear in the body
of the paper, and self- references should be made in the third person in
order to facilitate blind review.
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The
paper should be made under ACM format and must not exceed 4000 words.
A template
for author is available. Some additional pages can be proposed (up to 8
pages), since authors pay the charge specified on the web site.
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At least
one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the conference
and present the paper.
- Your article must be submitted
here.
4. Important dates
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Electronic
submission of full papers: September 16, 2007
NEW DEADLINE
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Notification
of paper acceptance: October 19, 2007
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Camera-ready
copy of accepted paper due: October 30, 2007
Adilson Gonzaga USP, Brazil
Adson Rocha UNB, Brazil
Albert Rizzo USC, USA
Alcimar Soares UFU, Brazil
Alexandre Cardoso UFU, Brazil
Alexandre Direne UFPR, Brazil
Andrew Maidment - University of Pennsylvania , USA
Artur Ziviani - LNCC, Brazil
Benoit Macq, UcL, Belgium
Bin Ma University of Western Ontario, Canada
Edgard Lamounier UFU, Brazil
Evandro Luis L. Rodrigues USP, Brazil
Fátima L. S. Nunes UNIVEM, Brazil
Fernanda Claudia A. Campos UFJF, Brazil
Grigore Burdea - University of Rutgers, USA
Hafid Niniss - NRCPD, Japan
Hélio Pedrini UFPR, Brazil
Homero Schiabel USP, Brazil
Jacques Wainer UNICAMP-UNIFESP, Brazil
Joaquim Felipe USP, Brazil
Julio Nievola PUCPR, Brazil
Kunio Doi - University of Chicago, USA
Lídia S. Cardoso UFRJ, Brazil
Liliane dos Santos Machado UFPB, Brazil
Lourdes Mattos Brasil UCB, Brazil
Luciana Nedel UFRGS, Brazil
Marcia Ito CEETPS, Brasil
Marcio Eduardo Delamaro UNIVEM, Brazil
Maria Andreia F. Rodrigues UNIFOR, Brazil
Maria Clícia S. Castro UERJ, Brazil
Patrick Siarry, Univ. Paris 12, France
Rosa Maria E. M. da Costa - UERJ, Brazil
Roseli Wedemann UERJ, Brazil
Vera Maria B. Werneck UERJ, Brazil
