SAC'09 - ACM 2009 SYMPOSIUM ON
APPLIED COMPUTING
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1. SAC 2009
For
the last twenty-three 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 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied
Computing, and is hosted this year by the
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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
SAC2009 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:
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Artificial
Intelligence in Health
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Computer
Aided Diagnosis
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Database
in Health
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Decision
support systems
·
Evidence-based
health care
·
Human-Computer
Interaction in Health
·
Information
Systems and PACS
·
Medical
Education
·
Multimedia
in Health
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Other
computer application in health care.
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Signal
and Image Processing in Health
·
Software
Engineering in Health
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Telemedicine
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Virtual
and Augmented Reality in Health
·
Web
Applications in Health
3.
Submissions in 2009 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 2009 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.
3.1 Guidelines for paper submission
The
following paper submission guidelines must be strictly followed:
- Submit the full paper in PDF
format to the web site by
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The
author(s) name(s) and address(es) must
NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the
third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be
shown at the first page without the author's information.
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The paper should be made under ACM format and must not exceed 4000
words. A template
((http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm)) for author is available. Some additional pages can be
proposed (up to 8 pages), since authors pay the charge specified on the web
site.
- 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 (http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/)
4. Important dates
- Electronic submission of full papers:
- Notification of paper acceptance:
- Camera-ready copy of accepted paper due:
5. Track Chairs
Rosa Maria E. M. Costa – UERJ, Brazil
Fátima L.
Nunes - UNIVEM,
6. Programme Committee
Adilson Gonzaga, University of São Paulo - Brazil
Andrew Simpson, University of Oxford - United Kingdom
Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing - Brazil
Eduardo Romero, UNAL- Colombia
Fabricio A. B. Silva, University of Lisbon - Portugal
Fátima Nunes, Universidade de São Paulo Brazil
Hafid Niniss, Cyberdyne - Japan
Helio Pedrini, Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brazil
Inês Dutra, University of Porto - Portugal
Julio Cesar Nievola, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná - Brazil
Liliane Machado, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Brazil
Lourdes Brasil, University of Brasília - Brazil
Marcia Ito, Centro Estadual de Educação Tecnológica Paula Souza - Brazil
Mario Cannataro, University of Catanzaro - Italy
Patrick Siarry, Université de Paris 12 - France
Rosa Maria Costa, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Tony Brooks, Aalborg Universitet - Denmark
Vera Werneck, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Vitor S. Costa, University of Porto - Portugal
For general information about SAC, please visit: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.
If you have further
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: fatima@univem.edu.br or rosamcosta@yahoo.com