NNESMED/CIMED 2nd Call for Papers

[Lisboa, Paulo]

Dear Colleagues,
 
A second and final call for papers has been issued for NNESMED/CIMED 2003,
with the deadline for submissions extended until Friday 7th March.
Submission information is listed in this message and full details about the
conference may be found at the conference website
<http://www.shu.ac.uk/conference/nnesmed/>
http://www.shu.ac.uk/conference/nnesmed/.
 
Paulo Lisboa.
 
Fifth International Conference on Neural Networks and Expert Systems in
Medicine and Healthcare and First International Conference on Computational
Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare, NNESMED/CIMED 2003.
Sheffield Hallam University, 21-23 July, 2003.

NNESMED and CIMED are focused on the application of intelligent
computational methods and systems to support all areas of biomedical,
clinical and healthcare practice, making it a strongly interdisciplinary
conference, bringing together healthcare specialists, clinicians, biomedical
engineers, computer scientists, communication and computer network
engineers, and applied mathematicians. It traditionally follows a
single-track format to ensure that all presentations, whatever the mode of
delivery, are well attended. The language of the conference is English.
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (two pages in length,
single spaced) which includes the paper title, the authors' names,
affiliations, e-mail and postal addresses, the name of the corresponding
author and their telephone and fax numbers, a short summary of the abstract
(for the website) and the extended abstract itself, by 7 March 2003.
Extended abstracts should clearly identify the medical or healthcare context
of the work, the methodology used, the advances made and the significance of
the results. Extended abstracts should only concern significant work already
completed. Extended abstracts on currently unfinished or future work should
not be submitted. The material submitted must be original, and must neither
have been published nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Papers will be accepted as either full session oral papers or as poster
papers. The authors of poster papers will also be timetabled for a 4 minute
oral presentation at the commencement of the poster session. The summaries
of the extended abstracts accepted for the conference will be placed on the
conference website. 

The text should be prepared in Word using font Times New Roman size 12 bold
face for the title only, and size 10, not bold, for the rest of abstract.
Authors should submit their abstracts as attachments to an e-mail sent to
conference21 at shu.ac.uk <mailto:conference21 at shu.ac.uk> . Authors without
access to e-mail should post four copies to: Conference 21, Sheffield Hallam
University, City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB, England.

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to develop them into full
camera-ready papers of 4-6 pages in length for inclusion in the conference
proceedings. 

After the conference, selected papers will be recommended for expansion and
submission to the International Journal "Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine" (Elsevier Science, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/09333657)
or to the "Journal of Soft Computing" (Elsevier Science,
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/), where they will undergo the usual
review process. 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

*                     Submission of extended abstracts
7 March 2003

*                     Notification of provisional acceptance
31 March 2003

*                     Submission of full papers (camera ready)           18
April 2003