-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Issue on Big Data Analytics for Smarter Health Care: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal Datum: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:38:38 -0400 Von: Nirmalya Roy nirmalya.roy@GMAIL.COM Antwort an: Nirmalya Roy nirmalya.roy@GMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Special Issue on Big Data Analytics for Smarter Health Care

- Call for Papers -

Health care systems are at the cusp of being revolutionized by advancements in technology, which when appropriately integrated into existing best practices, can enable faster and safer cure, improved doctor-patient relationships, personalized treatment and lower costs. With rapid advances in computing and associated technologies, we are seeing slow, steady and seamless integrations of communications, networking, hardware miniaturization, sensing, cryptographic and a range of algorithmic advances for smarter health care. At the forefront of challenges in emergent smarter health care systems is how to manage ‘Big-data’ arising from today’s computing technologies. Sources of such Big-data are numerous including the Internet, Smart-phones, Embedded sensors in large numbers deployed for a variety of applications and so on. Unfortunately though, empowering the utility of Big-data today is challenging considering its heterogeneity, multi-dimensionality, volume and speed of da! ta generated. In the realm of health-care, while there are clear opportunities to leverage Big-data emanating from today’s computing technologies, additional challenges include providing information security, patient privacy, meeting real-time guarantees, information fusion, system sustainability among others. Although research in the domain of Big-Data analytics for smarter-health is attracting attention across disciplines, several applications, opportunities, challenges, models and technologies are yet to be explored and investigated. The special issue encourages submissions of high-quality unpublished papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research in the area of Big-data analytics applied to smarter health care. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

• ‘Big-Data’ Models and Architectures for smarter health care • Data Integration and Information Fusion for smarter health care • Security, Trust and Privacy in smarter health-care • Predictive modeling for improving health care • Novel ‘Big-Data’ analysis techniques with applications to smarter-health • Personalized and Patient Centric Heath-care • Networking and Communication architectures • Advanced sensing models including body sensors • Energy management issues in smarter health • Real-time protocols for smarter health care • Visualization, Personalized medicine and other Human factors in smarter health

Important Dates Submission deadline: Nov 1, 2014 Initial feedback to authors: Feb 1, 2015 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: Fall 2015

Submission Guidelines All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors should select “SI: Big Data for HealthCare”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

Guest Editors of the Special Issue: •Sriram Chellappan, Missouri University of Science and Technology •Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology •Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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