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HealthGrid 2010 conference: call for papers, posters and workshops. For more details please go to the conference web site

KEY DATES
Call for papers, posters and workshops closes:
February 15th 2010

The eighth HealthGrid conference will take place June 28-30 2010 at University
Paris XI in Orsay (France). Every year, this conference is the opportunity to
discuss the state of the art for the integration of grid practices into the
fields of biology, medicine and health. This year, it will take place just at
the time the European Grid Initiative will start federating the national grid
initiatives and propose its resources to the Research Infrastructures. The
conference program will include a number of high profile keynote presentations
complemented by a set of refereed papers, which will be selected through the
present call. Out of the selected papers, the best will be invited for oral
presentations and the others for poster presentations. All the selected papers
will be published in the book series „Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics“ published by IOS Press and referenced in Medline, Scopus, EMCare
and Cinahl Databases



Call for papers and posters

Contributions should be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in
length and maximum 10 pages). 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. Oral presentations could include demonstrations.

All papers must be submitted electronically. Please refer to the conference
website for upload instructions. The guidelines for authors and support tools
are those of the series „Studies in Health Technology and Informatics“ (see URLs
below). Papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas and topics:

A: ACCESSIBILITY

Challenges to making grids more accessible to bio-medical users
Scientific gateways
Workflow engines
Grid portals
Grid platforms

B: CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION
Grid technology versus web applications
Data privacy: confidentiality in distributed medical information systems – and
the security challenges
Knowledge integration – knowledge management
Semantic techniques and the challenge of integrating heterogeneous biomedical data
Visualization in Grids

C: APPLICATIONS
Bioinformatics
Biomedical informatics
Medical imaging
Public health informatics
Genetics and epidemiological studies
Pharmaceutical R&D: drug discovery, clinical tests
Grid computing and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH)

D: SOCIO ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Grid business aspects: sustainability and go-tomarket strategies
Experiences on production
Grid used in real business
Grid sociology: how to win society for Grids?

E: THE FUTURE OF GRIDS
Experiences with GP-GPU
Cloud computing, on demand computing
Nanomedecine

Call for workshops
This year, the conference Program Committee calls for workshops. On Monday
afternoon, June 28th 2010, parallel workshops are scheduled from 2.30 pm to 6pm.
Workshop proposals should include the following information:

Topic: the workshop topic should be directly related to the conference topics
listed in this call.

Duration: all workshops selected through this call will take place Monday
afternoon. Duration can be 90 minutes or 210 minutes (including coffee break).

Targeted audience: what is the expected attendance (for room allocation) ?

Format: do you wish to invite the speakers or to call for contributions? The
contributions to the workshops will not be included in the conference proceedings.

Name, affiliation and email address of the workshop submitter.