The Seventh Workshop on
Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences

Call for Papers

There has been an explosion of interest in health sciences applications of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), not only in the traditional CBR in Medicine domain, but also in bioinformatics, enabling home health care technologies, CBR integration, and synergies between CBR and knowledge discovery. This is the seventh in a series of exciting workshops, which have been held at every ICCBR and ECCBR since 2003. This workshop will be held at ICCBR-09, in Seattle, Washington, USA, on July 21, 2009.

The goals of this workshop are to:

Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the workshop, are to identify challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, required methodological improvements to fit this context needs, preferred types and domains of applications, and guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain.

We welcome all those interested in the problems and promise of CBR in the health sciences, whether or not they have participated in past workshops.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future directions.

Submission Requirements

PDF paper submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of ten pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available at the Information for LNCS Authors page.

We will not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we welcome papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in the Health Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously published material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In your submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper.

All submissions should be made via the ICCBR-09 EasyChair Conference Site.

Dates

Workshop Web Site

Information about this workshop is available at http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/iccbr09/workshop.html

Workshop Committee

Cindy Marling (Co-Chair), Ohio University, USA, marling@ohio.edu
Stefania Montani (Co-Chair), University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy, stefania.montani@unipmn.it
Klaus-Dieter Althoff University of Hildesheim, Germany
Isabelle Bichindaritz University of Washington, USA
Peter Funk Malardalen University, Sweden
Alec Holt University of Otago, New Zealand
Jean Lieber Loria, France
Lakhmi Jain University of South Australia, Australia
Stefan Pantazi, Conestoga College Institute of Technology, Canada
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany
Luigi Portinale University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Rainer Schmidt University of Rostock, Germany
Olga Vorobieva, I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russia