HealthGrid 2010 Conference is the opportunity to discuss the state of the art for the integration of grid practices into the fields of biology, medicine and health. This year, it will take place just at the time the European Grid Initiative will start federating the national grid initiatives and propose its resources to the Research Infrastructures. The conference program will include a number of high profile keynote presentations complemented by a set of refereed papers, which will be selected through the present call. Out of the selected papers, the best will be invited for oral presentations and the others for poster presentations. All the selected papers will be published in the book series "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" published by IOS Press and referenced in Medline, Scopus, EMCare and Cinahl Databases.
Call for papers and posters
Contributions should be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in length and maximum 10 pages). Selection for oral or poster presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, the originality of their contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and importance to the field. Oral presentations could include demonstrations.
All papers must be submitted electronically. The guidelines for authors and support tools are those of the series "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics".
Information for authors
Refereed papers will be selected through the call for papers. All selected papers will be published in the series "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" published by IOS Press and referenced in PubMed.
All conference participants will receive a complimentary copy of the articles on CD. Contributions can be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in length and maximum 10 pages) and/or as demonstrations. Selection for oral or poster presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, the originality of their contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and importance to the field. All papers must be submitted electronically.
Papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas and topics:
A: ACCESSIBILITY
- Challenges to making grids more accessible to bio-medical users.
- Scientific gateways.
- Workflow engines.
- Grid portals.
- Grid platforms.
B: CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA INTEGRATION
- Grid technology versus web applications.
- Data privacy: confidentiality in distributed medical information systems - and the security challenges
- Knowledge integration - knowledge management.
- Semantic techniques and the challenge of integrating heterogeneous biomedical data
- Visualization in Grids
C: APPLICATIONS in the fields of:
- Bioinformatics.
- Biomedical informatics.
- Medical imaging.
- Public health informatics.
- Genetics and epidemiological studies.
- Pharmaceutical R&D: drug discovery, clinical tests.
- Grid computing and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH).
D: SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
- Grid business aspects: sustainability and go-to-market strategies.
- Experiences on production.
- Grid used in real business.
- Grid sociology: how to win society for Grids ?
E: THE FUTURE OF GRIDS
- Experiences with GP-GPU.
- Cloud computing, on-demand computing.
- Nanomedecine.
Call for workshops
This year, the conference Program Committee calls for workshops. On Monday afternoon, June 28th 2010, parallel workshops are scheduled from 2.30 pm to 6pm. Workshop proposals should include the following information:
- Topic: the workshop topic should be directly related to the conference topics listed in this call.
- Duration: all workshops selected through this call will take place Monday afternoon. Duration can be 90 minutes or 210 minutes (including coffee break).
- Targeted audience: what is the expected attendance (for room allocation) ?
- Format: do you wish to invite the speakers or to call for contributions? The contributions to the workshops will not be included in the conference proceedings.
- Name, affiliation and email address of the workshop submitter.
Key dates
- 18 December 2009: Call for papers open
- 15 February 2010: Deadline for paper submission / Conference Registration Open (regular fees)
- 1st March 2010: Presenters notified of acceptance
- 1st Mai 2010: Advance program available on website
- 16 May 2010: Late Registration (higher fee)
- 28 June - 30 June 2010: HealthGrid 2010 in Paris
For further information, please visit:
http://paris2010.healthgrid.org