Call for Papers

• Call for Papers
• Instructions for Authors
• Aspects for characterizing submitted papers
• Reviewing Process
• Policy on Multiple Submissions

AIME 07 paper submission website (The call is closed!)


AIME 07 Program Committee Chair
Riccardo Bellazzi

Call for Papers

The Program Committee invites the submission of papers for AIME 07, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands during 07-11 July, 2007. Original contributions are sought on the development of theory, systems, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the exploitation of AI approaches to molecular medicine and biomedical informatics. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methods potentially useful in solving medical problems. Papers addressing theory should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods and their novelty with respect to the state of the art. Papers addressing systems should describe the requirements, design and implementation of new AI-inspired tools and systems, and discuss their applicability in the medical field. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

The scope of the conference includes topics such as:

Knowledge Acquisition and Management

Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies

Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Decision Support Systems

AI and Statistical approaches: Decision Trees and Bayesian Belief Networks

Case-Based Reasoning, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing

Spatial and Temporal Reasoning

Qualitative Modelling

Protocols, Guidelines, and Workflow Models

Natural Language Processing: Generation and Understanding

Biomedical Computer Vision, Imaging and Signal Interpretation

Intelligent Agents, Cooperative and Distributed Systems

Information Retrieval

Cognitive Modelling

Instructions for Authors

(The call is closed!)
There are two categories of paper submissions:

1. Full-length research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) addressing:
   1. Research in progress
   2. Demonstrations of implemented systems

To improve the efficiency and the quality of the review process, the authors of each contribution are encouraged to identify an area, a paradigm, one or more techniques and tasks, and a biomedical application field that best characterize their paper. Examples of these aspects are shown in the table below.
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).
Through the AIME 07 paper submission website (The call is closed!) authors should submit an abstract of their paper by Tuesday, January 23, 2007 and the complete paper by Wednesday January 31, 2007. The camera-ready accepted papers should be formatted according to Springer's Default Author Instructions at the LNCS website. Submitted papers for review are expected to largely adhere to these formatting instructions but may for example include a longer abstract (but please keep the number of words in the abstract below 250).
We accept submissions in PostScript and PDF. The preferred format is PDF. Each upload will replace a previous version of your submission of the same format. You may upload a PDF version or a (gzipped) PostScript version of your paper. See guidelines on producing PDF files on http://ee.tamu.edu/waves/i_genpdf.html. You should always preview the PDF file you generate to verify its correctness.

Aspects For Characterizing Submitted Papers

Reviewing Process

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the AIME 07 Program Committee. The Program Committee Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by Friday March 30, 2007.

Policy on Multiple Submissions

AIME will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during AIME's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings.


Please send inquiries about paper submissions and/or the program to:

AIME 07 Program Committee Chair
Riccardo Bellazzi


Address
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Università di Pavia
via Ferrata 1
27100 Pavia, Italy

riccardo.bellazzi@unipv.it
aime2007@unipv.it