Call for Papers and Proposals

Medical, Biomedical and Health Informatics

• Electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescription
• Data preprocessing, cleansing, management and mining
• Data quality assessment and improvement
• Medical imaging
• Computer-aided detection, hypothesis generation and diagnosis
• Evidence-based medicine
• Evolutionary and longitudinal patient and disease models
• Clinical workflow
• Medication adherence and health monitoring
• Smart health and big data

Devices

• High-confidence medical devices
• Integration of medical devices with e-Health
• Medical device interoperability
• Wearable devices
• In/on/around-body sensors and actuators
• Biosensors at the micro/nano-scale
• Smart garments/textiles
• Wireless energy transfer
• Energy harvesting

Communications and Networking

• Communication/network infrastructures, architectures and protocols for e-Health
• Antennas and propagation
• Proximity-based communication, group communication and social networks
• Power-efficient communication
• Ultra wideband communication
• Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant and reliable communication
• Cognitive communication for medical bands
• In-hospital networking, body area networking and cloud-integrated networking
• Software-defined networks and network management
• Nanoscale/molecular communications
• Network coding and error detection/correction

Signal/Data Processing and Systems

• Context awareness and situation awareness
• Image/video processing and computer/robot vision
• Internet of things, Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing
• Augmented reality and human-computer interaction
• Motion detection and activity recognition
• User modeling and personalization
• Robotics for e-Health
• Computing/storage infrastructures for e-Health such as clouds and virtualization
• Software, systems and performance engineering for e-Health

Services and Applications

• e-Health services/applications for physical and mental health; for example, in acute care, chronic care, mental health care, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, prosthetics, elderly/nursing care, smart homes and hospitals, and rural/wilderness practice
• e-Health services/applications for sports and exercise; for example, in training prescription and feedback, concussion detection/monitoring, life-logging and fitness monitoring
• e-Health services/applications for public health; for example, disease prevention, pandemic preparedness, epidemiological interventions and smart cities
• e-Health services/applications for extreme environments; for example, in fire fighting, disaster response, evacuation assistance, medical triage, space travel/exploration, deep diving and deep sea exploration
• Quality of experience (QoE) with e-Health services/applications
• Security, privacy and trust for e-Health services/applications
• Emerging cloud-based services/applications including health clouds/grids

Theories and Models

• Artificial and Computational Intelligence
• Citizen engagement and smart governance
• Digital city and smart growth
• Environmental capital reduction
• Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
• Reliability, Privacy and Trust
• Internet of Things, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
• Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Pedestrian and bicyclist safety; mobility systems
• Smart city theory, modeling and simulation

Technology, Methodologies and Tools

• Agent Technologies
• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies
• Development Processes and Tools
• Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities
• Networking and Communication
• Open data and big data analytics
• Sensors and Actuators

Applications

• Ambient Assisted Living
• Mobility Support
• Robotic Companions
• Energy Effiency
• Intelligent vehicle-to-infrastructure integration
• Support for Productive Collaborations
• Technology Supported Education
• Smart city for Special Needs
• Smart economy development
• Smart environment and policy development
• Smart Farming
• Smart health and emergency management
• Smart home and smart buildings
• Smart manufacturing and logistics
• Smart mobility and transportation

Systems and Infrastructures

• Architecture and Design
• Environmental monitoring technologies
• Intelligent and Smart Spaces
• Safety and security systems
• Smart integrated grids
• Smart traffic system operations
• System Architecture and Middleware for Intelligent Environments

Evaluation and Corpora

• Evaluation Paradigms and Campaigns
• Data Acquisition, Labelling and Data Sets
• User Studies and Trials
• Smart city Implementation

Internet of Things

• Applications for the Internet of Things
• Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms
• Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications
• Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness considerations in IoT systems
• IoT-motivated cyber-physical, Industrial Internet, and/or embedded system challenges
• Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues
• Sensing, control, and actuation in IoT architectures
• Novel protocols and network abstractions
• Data streaming architectures
• Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things
• Privacy challenges
• Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned
• Evaluation and testbeds

Internet technologies and applications

• Ad-hoc networks
• Big data/Big connectivity
• Data-mining
• Distributed systems/High Performance Computing (HPC)
• e-Business/e-Commerce, e-Learning/e-Society
• Grid Computing
• Internet applications and Services
• Internet hardware and software with algorithms and optimization
• Internet technologies
• Music and audio
• Protocols and standards
• Robotics
• Simulation and Modelling
• Systems failure
• Traffic/Traffic policies/Traffic shaping
• Visualisation
• Wireless networks

Energy Efficiency and Assessment in Buildings/cities with Aplications

• Integration of renewable energy in buildings and cities
• Building retrofit and refurbishment
• Business development and energy services for sustainable buildings and cities
• Low energy architectures
• Energy efficient buildings
• Highly-efficient insulation
• HVAC systems in the building applications
• Novel sustainable building materials and techniques
• Passive heating and cooling
• Sustainable energy management in buildings
• Zero CO2 and energy plus buildings
• Heating and ventilating control systems for reduced energy use
• Building management systems
• Low energy building technology
• Low energy lighting systems
• High-output light LED lighting systems
• Passive solar heating systems.
• Life cycle analysis methodologies
• Tools and life cycle analysis
• Triple-bottom-line analysis
• Energy efficient lighting systems and regulation
• Environmental management systems
• Environmental impact assessment systems
• Environmental Sustainability and Development

Power engineering, materials and high efficiency power storage systems

• Battery systems
• Hybrid energy systems
• Advanced energy systems
• Advance electric regulation in energy systems
• Software systems for energy applications
• Case studies in energy engineering
• Energy efficient IT equipment and appliances
• Reversible fuel cells
• Flywheel systems
• Super-capacitors
• Thermo electricity
• Bio fuel
• Grätzel cells
• Fuel cell technology
• Bio-mass generation schemes
• Stirling cycle engines
• Bio-fuelled diesel generators
• Nanomaterials in energy applications
• Biomaterials in energy applications
• Electronic and magnetic materials

Renewable/clean energy sources and technologies with control and optimisation

• Photovoltaics
• Solar thermal
• Biomass
• Geothermal systems
• Micro-wind turbines
• Horizontal and vertical axis aero-generators
• On-site, off-grid, grid-supplemented generation systems
• Combined heat and power (CHP) and micro-CHP systems
• Sensors and instrumentation technology
• Virtual sensors
• Smart monitoring and control using intelligent systems
• High-efficiency switching systems
• Highly-efficient voltage conversion systems
• Novel high efficiency distribution systems and low voltage busses

Sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

• Green Information Technology (IT) performance
• Environmentally sustainable computing
• Energy-efficient systems
• Sustainable behaviour and ICT in homes and premises
• Sustainable practices in intelligent buildings
• Intelligent systems for sustainability
• Smart, sustainable, and Economy systems
• Processes and cloud computing

Policy perspective and governance on sustainability in energy and buildings

• Environmental policy
• Air pollution policy
• Water pollution policy
• Land management
• Waste management
• Biomass management
• Social aspects
• Green Manufacturing
• Governance of sustainability in energy and buildings
• Green economy and governance
• Green energy and environment
• Regional development
• Financial and regulatory mechanisms models and tools