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ifs.tuwien.ac.at>AIMDM'99 -- Call for Papers for the workshop ******************************************************************** *** Workshop: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care *** Knowledge-Based Information Management ******************************************************************** Sunday, June 20, 1999 Aalborg, Denmark during the Joint European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Medical Decision Making (AIMDM'99) in Aalborg, Denmark, June 20 - 24, 1999 (homepage of AIMDM http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates * Submission deadline: March 1, 1999 * Notification to authors: April 15, 1999 * Camera-ready paper: May 15, 1999 * Conference: June 20-24, 1999 * Workshop: Sunday, June 20, 1999 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care provided. This workshop presents "State of the art" applications of information technology for clinicians, researchers and industry working in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. Workshop Topics: - --------------- Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * computational methods for intelligent data analysis (e.g., interpretation of time-ordered data) * quality control and assessment * clinical guidelines and protocols * effective and efficient monitoring (including intelligent alarming) * decision support * physiological modelling * planning and scheduling * uncertain and temporal reasoning * visualization In particular, we will ask the participants to address the following points: - what kind of support are the clinicians really expecting and asking for in ICUs and Anaesthesia - what are the people working in industry able to provide - what can the research community contribute to improve the information management - how can the different approaches and perspectives be combined - what are the (research) directions for the near future In addition Patient Data Management systems will be presented by representatives from industry. Submission of Papers: - ------------------- The workshop invites submission of full papers or structured abstracts written in English to the workshop chair, Silvia Miksch, preferably in electronic format (word, pdf or postscript) no later than March 1st 1999. * Full papers: These should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages. Full papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format, details of which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, or by writing to the programme committee chair. * Structured abstracts: These should be a maximum of one page A4 with the text fitting within a box 16 cm wide and 22 cm high. The title of the abstract should be in 12 point bold format with author details and main text being 12 point font, single line spaced, preferably in Times font. Abstracts should be structured with the following headings: Objective, methods, results and conclusions. (see instruction for authors for AIMDM'99 URL: http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/html/contrib.htm) Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15th 1999. Authors are requested to state their preference for oral presentation or poster. Abstracts and papers will appear as separate workshop notes. - ---------------- Submission Address: - ----------------- Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology (IFS) Resselgasse 3/188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria email: silviaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.um.edu.mt>EACL-99 European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 12th June 1999 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS _________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Our field is such that curricula have always been closely related to computational theories and related tools. However, the tools that are available are often no more than unrefined versions of programs developed in research laboratories that authors have generously made available to the public. Consequently, the relationship between available tools and the goals of Education in Language and Speech Technology (ELST) is, more often than not, a casual one that individual course designers may seek to strengthen by, for example, adapting the functionality of the tools themelves, the user interface, the context in which they are presented, etc. In other cases, computatational tools are specially developed to suit the needs of particular courses. Given the number of courses in existence whose aims are basically rather similar, it is reasonable to suppose that a lot of work is being unnecessarily repeated. One of the concrete objectives of this workshop is to establish a registry of computational tools that are currently being used to support ELST. A related aim, is to consider whether it is feasible or desirable to adopt common approaches to the development of tools and environments specifically designed with educational goals in mind. No such discussion can be seriously entertained without also considering the role of internet which gives us the means to deliver course components, if not complete courses, at a distance. The advantages of internet delivery in general are obvious: practically limitless multimedia resources, asynchronous patterns of connection, access to world expertise, flexible styles of interaction ranging from student-centered, resource-oriented teaching to interactive virtual classroom discussions and demonstrations -- and more. Far less clear, and far less considered, are: - the particular areas of ELST where internet delivery is likely to have significant advantages over other computer-based delivery media such as CD ROM. - the special nature of course materials/authorware that are available or that need to be developed to support internet based distance learning in the area of language and speech technology. The workshop will offer a forum - albeit a brief one - for the presentation and discussion of the above issues and other related ones. A medium/long term aim of this initiative is the establishment of a more permanent framework (e.g. a special interest group under the auspices of the learned associations and/or ELSNET) within which the educational issues in our field could be given the time and attention they deserve. SUBTOPICS * Computational Tools for ELST * Online Components for ELST * Specialised Tutorials for ELST * Authorware (tools supporting production of materials for ELST) * Tool Oriented Curriculum Design * Multilingual Course Delivery * Course Management Issues * Distance Education for LST PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Doug Arnold (Essex) Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht) Chris Bowerman (Sunderland) Anders Erikkson (Umea) Steven Krauwer (Utrecht) Mark Huckvale (London) Koenraad de Smedt (Bergen) Mark Tatham (Essex) Maria Wolters (Bonn) Felisa Verdejo (Madrid) INVITED SPEAKER: To Be Announced FORMAT REQUIREMENTS * Electronic submissions only, Postscript or Word V7 format. * Please provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. * Blind submissions: provide author information on a separate header page. Avoid obvious self refererences in text. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.sty (style file) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/acl.bst (bibstyle) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eacl99sample-sub.tex (example) * Word users see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.doc * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mrosMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue