Call for Papers

IEEE Intelligent Systems

 

IS bugSpecial Issue on Smart and Connected Health

Submission Deadline: 1 September 2013
Notifications: 1 December 2013
Publication: May/June 2014

Computing plays an important role in many facets of our lives, increasingly so in aspects of individual and social well-being. Individual health is encouraged with the development of intelligent systems, apps, gadgets, and mobile systems that focus on diet, exercise, and information provision. Medication, surgery, and assistive devices rely on intelligent systems to analyze data and human responses, guiding the implementation and management of therapies and interventions. In addition to work that focuses on individuals, there is a proliferation in use of intelligent systems for large-scale analysis of biomedical data, socially relevant data, and metadata, such as the spread of disease or certain health-habits in populations.

In this special issue, we are particularly interested in research papers depicting intelligent systems and their components, describing a novel technical component as well as its rigorous evaluation. The evaluations would ideally include both technical and human-impact evaluations. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Intelligent systems that encourage, support, and maintain existing health and well-being in large groups of the population:
    • Assistive systems for supporting vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, under-educated, children, or physically and/or mentally challenged
    • Personalized, adaptive, and persuasive systems for improving lifestyles, adherence to instructions, and other healthy habits
    • Augmentative devices, applications, and systems used to maintain or attain healthy lifestyles
    • Persuasive systems for different consumers and patients
    • Interfaces and applications to increase information, data provision, and understanding
  • Intelligent systems for individual patients, consumers, and clinicians to improve medication, treatments, therapies, and outcomes in medicine:
    • Personalized medicine
    • Computer-aided diagnosis and treatment
    • Telemedicine, mHealth, and remote applications of systems and components
    • Immersive, 3D, or other novel environments for training, teaching, and treatment
    • Real-time systems for guiding, alerting, or otherwise improving behaviors
  • Intelligent systems that use, combine, or create new and large-scale data types for analysis, visualization, and discovery:
    • Big data analysis and use — for example, detecting disease spread
    • Data mining and visualization for the design of therapies and treatments
    • Mining, visualizing, or mapping of geo-coded data (historical or social) for tracking, preventing, or analyzing disease evolution
    • Text mining of electronic health records and other unstructured data sources
    • Biomedical and scientific data mining
    • Combining structured and unstructured data for better data mining
  • Intelligent systems on small, mobile, or wireless systems:
    • Personalized, adaptive, or persuasive systems for improving lifestyles, adherence to instructions, and other healthy habits
    • Recommender systems for clinicians or patients
    • Smart rooms and homes for vulnerable groups such as the elderly or mentally ill
    • Mobile, location-aware devices, interfaces, and applications for tracking, augmenting, or improving health and lifestyle

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be 3,000 to 5,400 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow IEEE Intelligent Systems style and presentation guidelines (www.computer.org/intelligent/author). The manuscripts cannot have been published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

We strongly encourage submissions that include audio, video, and community content, which will be featured on the IEEE Computer Society Web site along with the accepted papers.

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