[Iefac.list] Reminder: 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics- June 15 2008

[Jing Li]

The Data Mining (DM), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Health
Applications (HA) Subdivisions of the Institute for Operations
Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) are jointly organizing the
Third One-day Pre-conference Workshop on Data Mining and Health
Informatics  (INFORMS-DM-HI 2008) on October 11, 2008 at Washington,
DC, in conjunction with the 2008 INFORMS Annual Conference.

The objectives of this workshop are to:
•        Present state-of-the-art research and practice of data mining
and health informatics.
•        Encourage collaborative and interdisciplinary research among
members in DM, AI, and HA.
•        Promote the activities of the DM, AI, and HA subdivisions at INFORMS.

The theme of the workshop centers around health informatics and topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations of AI and DM
AI/DM in Operations Research and Operations Management.
Machine Learning and Statistical Learning Algorithms
Bioinformatics
Pattern Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Visualization
Healthcare DM and Knowledge Discovery
Healthcare Logistics
Healthcare Simulations
Medical Imaging
Medical Operation Research
Biosurveillance, Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
Disease Spread and Transmission Simulations
Multi-agent Systems
Case Studies

On behalf of the INFORMS-DM-HI 2008 Organizing Committee, we would
like to invite you to submit an abstract, not exceeding 200 words, for
review. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to give a
presentation at the Workshop and submit a short paper, not exceeding 6
pages, for the Workshop Proceedings, to be published on a CD.

Time line:
June 15: 200-word abstracts due
July 15: Acceptance decisions sent out
Sept 30: Proceedings papers due
Oct 11: Workshop

Submit abstracts and papers electronically to informs.dm.workshop at gmail.com

For inquiries, please contact Program co-Chairs:

Jing Li (Arizona State University): jinglz at asu.edu
Dionne Aleman (University of Toronto):  aleman at mie.utoronto.ca
Riyaz Sikora (University of Texas at Arlington): rsikora at uta.edu

Management Committee:

Kwok-Leung Tsui (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Tory Chen (University of Texas at Arlington)
Wei Jiang (Stevens Institute of Technology)


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Jing Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Arizona State University
Phone: (480) 965-0125
http://www.public.asu.edu/~jli09/