Call for Papers

• Call for Papers
• Important Dates
• Instructions for Authors
• Reviewing Process
• Anonymous Reviewing
• Policy on Multiple Submissions

Call for Papers

The Program Committee invites the submission of full technical papers for AIME 05, to be held in Aberdeen, Scotland, 23 - 27 July, 2005.

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the evaluation of health care programmes. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the propertiesof novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations ofthe proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

The scope of the conference includes the following areas:

Important Dates

Instructions for Authors

There are two categories of paper submission:

1. Full research papers (up to 10 pages)
2. Short papers (up to 5 pages) that are
1. short research paper
2. demonstration of implemented systems
3. late-breaking results (work-in-progress)

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format.

Authors will be required to register on the AIME 05 paper submission site. by Wednesday February 2nd, and to submit an abstract and formatted electronic version of their paper through this site no later than Wednesday, February 9.

We accept submissions in PostScript and PDF. The preferred format is PDF. Each upload will replace a previous version of your submission of the same format. You may upload both a (gzipped) PostScript version and a PDF version of your paper.

Here are some guidelines for generating PDF files that will be widely readable:

1. Use only Type 1 or True Type fonts. Avoid bitmapped, Type 3 fonts.
2. Embed all fonts into the PDF file.
3. Subset fonts at a threshold of 100%.
4. Create the PDF file on the same computer where the original document was created. This will insure that the fonts necessary for viewing and printing the resulting PDF file are available during PDF creation.
5. Do not use Adobe PDFWriter. Use Acrobat Distiller (in the same package as PDFWriter) or Ghostscript instead. PDFWriter does not produce acceptable PDF files except under very limited circumstances. Never, ever, use the PDFWriter if your file contains EPS graphics!
6. Since PDF conversions can have many sources of errors (translating fonts, formats, character sets, etc.), you should always preview the PDF file you generate to verify its correctness.

(These guidelines were taken from: http://ee.tamu.edu/waves/i_genpdf.html).

Reviewing Process

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the AIME 05 Programme Committee under the chairpersonship of the AIME 05 Programme Committee Chair. Papers will be subject to blind peer review; reviewers will not be aware of the identities or affiliations of the authors. The AIME 05 Programme Committee Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by April 6, 2005.

Anonymous Reviewing

AIME 05 will operate an anonymous reviewing process. Reviewers for AIME 05 will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in your submission by the unique tracking number assigned by the submission of the summary form (or leave it empty in case you are not able to use the web-based summary submission form).

Please avoid identifying self-references. When referring to one's own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n] it has been shown ...". Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication.

Policy on Multiple Submissions

AIME will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during AIME's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival proceedings.