The Journal of Intelligent Information Sytems (JIIS) invites contributors
to submit papers for a special issue devoted to the subject of
Intelligent Temporal Information
Systems in Medicine
The Guest Editors are Yuval Shahar, M.D., Ph.D., from the Section on
Medical Informatics, Stanford University, California, U.S.A., and Carlo
Combi, Ph.D., from the Department of Mathematics and Information,
University of Udine, Italy.
Time plays a major role in medical information systems. Representing,
maintaining, querying, and reasoning about time-oriented clinical data is a
major theoretical and practical research area. Temporal reasoning is
important to medical decision making (e.g., in clinical diagnosis and
therapy planning) and in medical data modeling and managing (e.g., for
representation of the patient's medical record).
It is sometimes useful to distinguish two research directions, distinct
with respect to their focus and the research communities pursuing them,
that can be easily identified in the literature: (1) temporal reasoning,
which supports various inference tasks involving time-oriented data, such
as planning and execution, and traditionally has been linked with the
artificial-intelligence community, and (2) temporal data maintenance, which
deals with storage and retrieval of data that have heterogeneous temporal
dimensions, and typically is associated with the (temporal) database
community. Tasks such as abstraction of higher-level concepts from
time-stamped data and management of temporal granularity create an
intersection between these two research efforts. Furthermore, both
research directions necessarily involve temporal data modeling, since
otherwise data can be neither maintained nor reasoned with. Additional
common research areas can be identified, and further collaboration between
these two research communities holds much promise.
This special issue will focus on the intersection of artificial
intelligence and database methodologies as they pertain to the tasks of
temporal reasoning and temporal data maintenance in general, and to medical
tasks and domains in particular. Submissions do not necessarily have to
focus on any current medical application, but should at least indicate
clearly their direct relevance to medicine.
Contributions of high quality would be welcome in, but are not limited to,
any of the following subareas of research:
* Temporal reasoning and time-oriented diagnosis or planning in medicine
* Query and update of time-oriented medical databases
* Modeling of time-oriented medical data
* temporal constraint representation and management in medical databases
* Acquisition, maintenance, sharing, and reuse of temporal-reasoning knowledge
* Handling multiple and heterogenous time-oriented clinical databases
* Implementation of time-oriented medical information systems
* Summarization of time-oriented medical data
* Temporal-pattern matching and temporal queries in medicine
* Visualization of temporal queries and their results in medical domains
Interested potential contributors are invited to submit four copies of the
manuscript by April 15, 1998 to one of the guest editors (see addresses
below). Manuscripts should include no more than 30 typewritten pages, 12
type font and 18 point spacing. Submissions should include a title page
including the corresponding author's complete mail address, phone, fax, and
email address of all authors; the paper, including an abstract (100 to 250
words) and 3 to 5 key words (all figures and tables should be embedded in
their proper place in text); and a complete alphabetically-ordered list of
all references cited in the paper, using the (author, date) citation style
in the paper. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed.
Instructions for preparation of accepted JIIS papers and the appropriate
address to which to send them can be found in the JIIS home page
(http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/).
Expected Timeline:
Submit four hard copies of the manuscript to one of the editors by April
15, 1998
Authors will be notified of acceptance or necessary revision by July 30,1998.
Revised papers will due by September 25, 1998.
The expected publication date is late 1998 or early 1999.
Guest Editors' addresses:
Yuval Shahar, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor (Research)
Section on Medical Informatics
Medical School Office Building x215
251 Campus Drive
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5479
phone: +1-650-725-3393
fax: +1-650-725-7944
email: shahar@smi.stanford.edu
Carlo Combi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Universita' degli Studi di Udine
via Delle Scienze 206
33100 Udine - Italy -
phone: +39-432-55-8438
fax: +39-432-55-8499
email: combi@dimi.uniud.it
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