From: ewc@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Enrico Coiera)
Subject: CFP - AI in Medicine Journal, Special Issue
Date: 26 Jul 91 10:46:43 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories




              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE JOURNAL
                           Special Issue on
     Intelligent Monitoring and Control of Dynamic Physiological Systems
                            
                            CALL FOR PAPERS

	
A special issue of the Elsevier international journal ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
IN MEDICINE is planned to be devoted to recent developments in the technology 
of intelligent patient monitoring. The special issue will focus specifically
on AI techniques developed to cope with monitoring and control problems that 
arise when dealing with dynamic physiological systems. Example applications in 
this area include:
        o Patient monitoring systems that attempt real time diagnosis and 
          tracking of dynamic physiological events (e.g.ECG,haemodynamics,EEG).
        o Diagnostic systems that handle time varying physiological data
          (eg glucose metabolism, acid-base homeostasis)
        o Closed Loop Control systems e.g Drug delivery or ventilator
          management systems.
This is a rapidly expanding research area, and the special issue aims to
collect
together papers describing state of the art technical contributions as well as
reviews and critical discussions of key research questions. The special issue 
is scheduled to appear as one of the Volume 4 (1992) series.  Papers
describing 
original research contributions are solicited and topics of specific interest 
include:

 o Knowledge Representation of dynamic physiological systems. 
   e.g. the role of deep, qualitative, or causal representations, and
   their adequacy for clinical monitoring and control tasks.

 o Reasoning with Multiple Physiological Models or Levels of Representation. 
   e.g. selecting appropriate representations based on task specification
   and switching representations when current representations prove inadequate.

 o Diagnosis of time varying disorders.
   e.g. reason maintenance systems, model-based diagnosis

 o Planning 
   e.g. Real time issues for diagnosis and control

 o Integrating Architectures
   e.g. Blackboard systems, mixed architecture systems

 o Closed loop control of therapeutic devices

 o User Interfaces 
   e.g. The development of adaptive user interfaces and user and 
   dialogue modelling to deal with the specific needs of systems for 
   monitoring and control.
 
Papers offering critical reviews of progress in the field, of specific research
issues and of the development of significant research projects are also sought.
Potential authors interested in submitting review papers are encouraged to 
discuss the scope of their papers before submission.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: Papers must comply with the usual format specified for
the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal. Contributions should be
written
in English with an abstract and a list of keywords. Three copies should
be sent 
to the Special Issue Editor. Authors are requested to put their mailing
address on the manuscript, along with email, telephone and fax if possible. 
Copies of the full "Instructions for Authors" can be obtained from the contact 
address below.

DEADLINES: Papers must arrive AT THE VERY LATEST by January 1, 1992 

CONTACT : Address all correspondence and send manuscripts to the special issue
editor:
                 Dr. Enrico Coiera
                 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
                 Filton Rd.,
                 Stoke-Gifford
                 Bristol BS12 6QZ
                 UNITED KINGDOM
	
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