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3rd INFORMS Workshop on
Data Mining and Health Informatics

Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:00am-5:00pm

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to June 15, 2008

The Data Mining (DM), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Health Applications (HA) subdivisions of INFORMS are jointly organizing the workshop (INFORMS-DM-HI 2008) in conjunction with the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2008. 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 on health informatics.
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

Call for Papers
On behalf of the INFORMS-DM-HI 2008 Organizing Committee, we 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 six (6) pages, for the workshop proceedings, to be published on a CD.
 
Time line

June 15
July 15
September 30
October 11
200-word abstracts due
Acceptance decisions sent out
Proceedings papers due
Workshop

Submit abstracts and papers electronically to informs.dm.workshop@gmail.com.
For inquiries, please contact Program Co-Chairs:
Jing Li (Arizona State University): jinglz@asu.edu
Dionne Aleman (University of Toronto):aleman@mie.utoronto.ca
Riyaz Sikora (University of Texas at Arlington): rsikora@uta.edu  

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

Registration
The registration fee for the workshop for all presenters and participants is $50. You must also register for the INFORMS Annual Meeting in order to attend the workshop. Click here to register.

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