Subject: GeNeDis 2016 - Special Session on Intelligent Humanistic Health-care Technologies [This is an automated e-mail. Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this e-mail to anyone interested.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on Intelligent Humanistic Health-care Technologies in conjunction with 2nd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseasese Research - GeNeDis 2016 October 20-23, 2016, Sparta, Greece http://www.genedis.eu/intelligent-humanistic-health-care-technologies Over the recent years technological advances have re-defined the field of e-health, in terms of related human-oriented applications, services and humanistic data management. New entities such as wearable sensors, sensors connected to the human body or ambient sensors, and sensor network infrastructures have emerged and the notion of assisted living is gaining more and more attention. Modern artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies in conjunction with other sources or types of information like contextual information are being developed towards this direction. In addition, Internet of Things is growing in an unprecedented manner and related hardware is getting more accurate, more affordable and thus being incorporated in all sorts of e-health objects producing loads of data, while at the same time creates huge opportunities for humanistic data-centric research efforts to evolve. Taking into account the social aspect of the ageing general population and the increasing need for home-based e-health services, it is rather obvious that Intelligent Humanistic Health-care Technologies form a challenging, still applied, research field. This special session attempts to investigate aforementioned observations from the aspects of sensing and humanistic data collection, related communication technologies, and humanistic data analysis techniques to extract health-relevant information. Its scope is to attract leading research and development approaches contributing to the hot topic of humanistic healthcare. In this sense we are seeking original, high-quality, high-impact research papers on all aforementioned topics, whereas papers will be selected on the basis of novelty, technical merit, presentation and impact. Important dates for GeNeDis 2016 -------------------------------- Submission of full papers: August 20, 2016 Main Event: October 20-23, 2016 Aim and topics -------------- This GeNeDis 2016 Special Session aims to address several issues that fall under the auspices of intelligent humanistic health-care technologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Çealth-care * Health & wellness monitoring * E-health applications * Biomedical signal processing * Clinical information systems * Bioinformatics * Wearable sensors * Healthcare information systems * Internet of Things * Telemedicine * Context awareness * ICT e-health * Data collection * Clinical trials Special Session Organizers -------------------------- Phivos Mylonas, Department of Informatics, Ionian University Konstantinos Karpouzis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens Ilias Maglogiannis, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus Special Session Program Committee --------------------------------- * Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly * George Caridakis, University of the Aegean * Kostas Delibasis, University of Thessaly * Theodore Giannakopoulos, National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' * Vassiliki Iconomidou, University of Athens * Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University * Katia Kermanidis, Ionian University * Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens * Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Frederick University Cyprus * Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia * Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University * Adamantia Pateli, Ionian University * Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Thessaly * Amaryllis Raouzaiou, National Technical University of Athens * Spyros Sioutas, Ionian University * Evaggelos Spyrou, National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' * Andreas-Georgios Stafylopatis, National Technical University of Athens * Zenonas Theodosiou, Cyprus University of Technology * Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese * Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta Submission Procedure -------------------- Prospective contributors are invited to submit research papers at the dedicated submission area of the main web site (http://www.genedis.eu/en/papers/call-for-papers)