Call for Papers

(Closed on 15 February 2009)

The conference program of the seventh annual HealthGrid conference will include a number of high-profile keynote presentations, complemented by a set of refereed papers, which will be selected through the present call for papers. In addition to papers, poster and demonstration sessions will also be selected through this call.

Information for authors

Refereed papers will be selected through the call for papers. All selected papers will be published in the series "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" published by IOS Press (www.iospress.nl) and referenced in PubMed.
All conference participants will receive a complimentary copy of the articles on CD. Contributions can be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in length and maximum 10 pages) and/or as demonstrations. Selection for oral or poster presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, the originality of their contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and importance to the field. All papers must be submitted electronically.

 

Paper Topics

Papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas and topics:

A: ACCESSIBILITY

• The challenge of making Grid more accessible to bio-medical users
• Usability: "ready-to-run" HealthGrids?

B: CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA INTEGRATION

• Grid technology versus web applications
• Data privacy: confidentiality in distributed medical information systems - and the security challenges
• Semantic techniques and the challenge of integrating heterogeneous biomedical data
• Visualization in Grids
• Next generation HealthGrids: self adaptive systems

C: APPLICATIONS

• HealthGrids for genetics and epidemiological studies
• PharmaGrids: supporting pharma research on grids
• Grid computing and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH)

D: SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS

• Grid business aspects: Sustainability and go-to-market strategies
• Experiences on production Grid used in real business
• Grid sociology: how to win society for Grids ?

E: THE FUTURE OF GRIDS

• Cloud computing, on-demand computing
• New demands beyond technology ?

F: DEMONSTRATORS

• Demonstrators for HealthGrid at Work

 

The guidelines for authors and support tools are those of the series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics to be found at:  http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=shti
http://www.iospress.nl/authco/iospressbookarticle-word.zip