Doctoral Consortium
Call for Papers
Written by Carlo Combi
Important
Dates
March 25, 2011 Deadline for submission
April 11, 2011 Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2011 Camera-Ready Copy Deadline
Saturday July 2, 2011 Doctoral Consortium
Aim
and who should attend
The fourth Doctoral Consortium for the Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) series of conferences will take place on
Saturday 2nd July 2011 in conjunction with the 13th Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 11) to be held in Bled, Slovenia
(http://www.aimedicine.info/aime11/). The Doctoral Consortium will provide an
opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their
preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The Ph.D. students can
discuss their plans, preliminary results (optional), and the specific problems
they are encountering. They will get feedback and advice from a number of
prominent academic researchers with substantial experience in the field who
will actively give constructive feedback and advice and contribute to the
discussions.
The Doctoral Consortium will host the presentations by
about 6 Ph.D. students who will be selected by the Doctoral Consortium chair.
It will also include a short intensive tutorial on structuring a research paper
(and the corresponding work) on different topics and with different
perspectives (theoretical, methodological, experimental, application-oriented),
and will be concluded with a general discussion and evaluation.
Submissions
Unlike other conference submissions, a Doctoral Consortium
submission pertains specifically to the Ph.D. thesis as a whole or part thereof
(hereafter both will be termed “the research work”). To apply for
participation at the AIME 11 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan
on a topic related to AI in Medicine of 2000 to 2500 words (approximately 4-5
pages) of your research work. Submissions should be submitted electronically in
PDF format and should include a short description of:
* The problem, with an argument of why it
is important.
* The goal and the research questions.
* An outline of what is already known
about the research problem.
* Your planned approach and methods for
solving the problem.
* The expected results from the research
work like overviews, algorithms, better understanding of a concept, a pilot,
model or system.
* Any questions you might have or
problems you encounter for which you specifically would like feedback on such
as: do I need to write a systematic review before I start? How should I
proceed? Where should I consider publishing? How should I evaluate my work?
Which courses would suit me best to carry out the work? Is it normal to meet my
supervisor once a week/month/year?
The doctoral consortium chair will select about 6
submissions to be presented and discussed during the meeting. The selection is
based on the relevancy to AI in Medicine topics (see for example the AIME 11
topics), relevancy to the doctoral consortium (there is for example no point to
present finished work at the meeting), the clarity of writing, and the
resulting spectrum of presented topics.
Academic
Panel
Aside from the doctoral consortium chair, an Academic Panel
consisting of the following leading researchers in the AIM field will conduct
the AIME Doctoral Consortium:
Ameen Abu-Hanna; Steen Andreassen;
Riccardo Bellazzi; Michel Dojat; Werner Horn; Elpida Keravnou; Peter Lucas; Silvia Miksch;
Niels Peek; Silvana Quaglini; Yuval Shahar; Blaz Zupan.
Participation
Participation in the meeting is open to anyone who wishes
to attend and not just to the presenting Ph.D. students. Details on payment and
registration will be announced later and will be posted on the AIME 11 web
page.
Proceedings
Selected submissions will appear in workshop notes that
will be distributed among registered participants.
Doctoral Symposium Chair
Carlo Combi, Ph.D.
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' degli Studi di Verona
Ca' Vignal
2
strada le Grazie 15
I-37134 Verona - VR - Italy
email: carlo.combi@univr.it
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