IX Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care, held in conjuntion with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014)
Prague, Czech Republic, August 18 or 19th, 2014
Intelligent agent-based systems constitute one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. Due to the growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care, a number of applications addressing clinical problems are already based in agent technology. Thus, the scientific goal of the workshop is to allow the specialists in the field to meet and report on the results achieved in this area, to discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains, to analyse the possibilities of research collaboration within the European 2020 Horizon and to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future. The target audience includes not only the specialists in the field, but also PhD students and postgraduate researchers interested in pursuing their academic career in this area.
Current topics of research include personalized health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and diagnosis. Several methodological and technical problems have been discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few, the growing number of huge databases that need to be integrated (e.g. genetic data from next generation sequencing), the difficulty to integrate new agent-based systems with legacy software, the need to apply changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security of the transaction of patient information between agents.
Submitted papers should address at least one of the following issues:
- Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management (e.g. distributed patient scheduling).
- Agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery.
- Agents that provide information about medical services.
- Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
- Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.
- MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).
- Medical agent-based decision support systems.
- Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical data and knowledge available on Internet.
- Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems associated to the real deployment of health-care agent-based systems
- Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
- Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care.
In this occassion, the IX Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care will be held in conjuntion with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014.
Past workshops
First workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2002 in Lyon, France. Organised by Antonio Moreno (Univ. Rovira i Virgili, URV), Ulises Cortés (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, UPC) and John Fox (Cancer Research UK, CRUK). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed. A.Moreno, Vol. 16, Issue 3, 2003).
Second workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2004 in Valencia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), John Nealon (Oxford Brookes University, OBU) and John Fox (CRUK). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: John Nealon, Vol. 18, Issue 3, 2005).
Third workshop on agents applied in health care - IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC) and John Nealon (OBU). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems (Ed: A.Moreno, Vol. 21, Issue 6, December 2006).
Fourth workshop on agents applied in health care - ECAI 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortés (UPC), Roberta Annicchiarico (Fondazione Santa Lucia, FSL) and John Nealon (OBU). Expanded versions of selected papers were published in the book Agent technology and e-health (Eds: R.Annicchiarico, U.Cortés, C.Urdiales), Whitestein series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing, 2007.
Fifth workshop on agents applied in health care - AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC) and Roberta Annicchiarico (FSL).
Sixth workshop on agents applied in health care - eHealth 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Roberta Annicchiarico (FSL), Magi Lluch (MicroArt) and David Isern (URV).
Seventh workshop on agents applied in health care - AAMAS 2012 in Valencia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Magi Lluch (Informatics Research Institute) and David Isern (URV). Expanded versions of the workshop papers are being considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.
Eighth workshop on agents applied in health care - AIME 2013 in Murcia, Spain. Organised by Antonio Moreno (URV), Ulises Cortes (UPC), Mr. Magi Lluch (BDigital), Dr. Helena Lindgren (Univ. of Umea, Umea, Sweden), Dr. Michael Schumacher (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland) and Dr. David Isern (URV).
