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<div>CALL FOR PAPERS BigData4Healthcare, deadline: November 29.</div>
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<div>1st International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Healthcare and Well-being 2016</div>
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<div>January 18, 2016, Hong Kong, China</div>
<div>http://sigai.or.kr/workshop/bigcomp/2016/big-data-for-healthcare/</div>
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<div>In conjunction with</div>
<div>the 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) 2016</div>
<div>http://conf2016.bigcomputing.org/main/</div>
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<div>Purpose and Scope</div>
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<div>Healthcare and well-being is an important area of research in many countries as one of the emerging application domains for both big data and smart computing. This workshop aims to create opportunities to share on-going works and enhance collaboration
among healthcare researchers related to big data or data science, and to foster new innovations of big data and smart computing in the areas of mobile healthcare, smart homes, digital cities, innovations in healthcare and sensing devices, and other related
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<div>Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the area of big data analytics for healthcare and well-being. The topics include but are not limited to:</div>
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<div>- Smart health and big data </div>
<div>- Data mining, graph mining and data science for healthcare</div>
<div>- Big data analytics and social media for healthcare</div>
<div>- Smart devices and hardware for healthcare</div>
<div>- Smart location-based services for healthcare</div>
<div>- Models and tools for smart computing in healthcare</div>
<div>- Innovations in healthcare and sensing devices</div>
<div>- Security and privacy for big data in healthcare</div>
<div>- Cloud and grid computing for healthcare</div>
<div>- Standards for big data in healthcare</div>
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<div>PAPER SUBMISSION</div>
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<div>Perspective authors are invited to submit their papers, up to 8 pages each, in the IEEE paper template. Papers must be formatted in PDF according to the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings and submitted through EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org/.
The direct link for paper submission is </div>
<div>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdata4healthcare </div>
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<div>IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div>Paper Submission Due: November 29, 2015 (23:59, HKT)</div>
<div>Notification of Acceptance: December 6, 2015</div>
<div>Camera ready Papers: December 13, 2015 </div>
<div>Workshop: January 18, 2016</div>
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<div>ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE</div>
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<div>Workshop Chairs:</div>
<div> Youssef Iraqi, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE</div>
<div> Ho-Jin Choi, School of Computing, KAIST, Korea</div>
<div> Min Song, Dept. of Library & Information, Yonsei University, Korea</div>
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<div>TPC Members:</div>
<div> Ae Ran Kim, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Korea</div>
<div> Amjad Gawanmeh, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE</div>
<div> Byeong-Soo Jeong, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea</div>
<div> Changseok Bae, SW.Content Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea</div>
<div> Ahsan Khandoker, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE</div>
<div> Hani Saleh, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE</div>
<div> Gwan-Su Yi, Dept. of Bio & Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea</div>
<div> Harish Bhaskar, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE</div>
<div> Hyeoun-Ae Park, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Korea</div>
<div> Kyuchang Kang, SW.Content Research Laboratory, ETRI, Korea</div>
<div> Tae-Min Song, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea</div>
<div> Yong-Ik Yoon, Dept. of Multimedia Science, SookMyung Women’s University, Korea</div>
<div> Yu-Chae Jung, Dept. of Multimedia Science, SookMyung Women’s University, Korea</div>
<div> Nan Xiang, Dept. of Computer Science, Chongqing University of Technology, China</div>
<div> Lingyun Zhu, Dept. of Internet of Things, Chongqing University of Technology, China</div>
<div> Yong Wang, Dept. of Network Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, China</div>
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