http://www.imia-medinfo.org/wg_idamap/idamap/



                     26th August, 2012

             A one-day colloquium in Pisa, Italy

    Lucia Sacchi and Barbara Di Camillo (chairs)





Organized in collaboration with the Intelligent Data Analysis and Data
Mining Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association,
the Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Working Group of the American Medical
Informatics Association, the Italian Medical Informatics Association (AIIM),
the e-health Italian Community and the European Federation for Medical
Informatics (EFMI).



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission:    May 15, 2012

Notification:     June 15, 2012

Camera-ready: June 25, 2012



GENERAL INFORMATION

IDAMAP-2012, a colloquium on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine and
pharmacology, will be held in conjunction with the 24th European Medical
 Informatics Conference - MIE2012 - in Pisa, August 26th -29th, 2012
(http://www.mie2012.it/).

The IDAMAP series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in
medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the
form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit knowledge of
the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of
the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data
visualization, data exploration, machine learning, and data mining.

Gathering in an informal setting, colloquium participants will have the
opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere
which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and
practitioners. The colloquium is intended to be a genuinely interactive
event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for
general discussion.


TOPICS

In the colloquium, attention will be given to methodological issues of
intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in biomedicine and
pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but are not limited
to:

- data mining and machine learning techniques for supervised and
unsupervised learning problems,

- exploiting domain knowledge in learning and data analysis,

- data visualization and exploration,

- analysis of large data sets and relational data mining,

- knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data analysis
techniques, and

- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within  biomedical
information systems.



A paper submitted to the colloquium is expected to show how a selected
methodology can help to address relevant problems in biology and medicine,
and would typically address the following issues:

- What is the biological or clinical problem addressed?

- Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the  data analysis
or interpretation of results?

- How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use?

Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data
analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of
medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics data
bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of
pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis.

We also invite developers of data analysis tools to send a contribution
describing the underlying methodology of the tool and sketch the potential
for application in the field of intelligent data analysis in biomedicine.


PROGRAM

The scientific program of the colloquium will consist of presentations of
accepted scientific papers and an invited presentation. Ample time will be
allotted for informal discussion among the participants.


SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS

Papers should be written in English.  Authors should send an electronic
submission in PDF format to both chairs ( barbara.dicamillo@dei.unipd.it,
lucia.sacchi@unipv.it);

please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject, where YOUR_NAME is
the surname of the first author. Alternatively to preferred PDF, submissions
using Post Script or MS Word format are also welcome.

The submissions should be received no later than May 15, 2012.

Formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on the
IDAMAP 2012 home page at
http://www.imia-medinfo.org/wg_idamap/idamap/idamap2012/deadlines.html .

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two people of the program
committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by June 15,
2012. Accepted papers will appear in colloquium notes that will be
distributed among registered participants.



REGISTRATION

Details on payment and registration will be posted shortly on the MIE
(http://www.mie2012.it/) and IDAMAP (
http://www.imia-medinfo.org/wg_idamap/idamap/) 2012 pages.