Welcome to the 5th edition of the IEEE Workshop on ICT Solutions for eHealth

e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. ICTS4eHealth 2020 is the 5th edition of the International IEEE Workshop dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence. The workshop will bring together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational Intelligence techniques in the area of eHealth.

Steering Committee


Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo" of Messina, Italy

Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR - CNR, Italy
Giovanna Sannino, ICAR - CNR, Italy

Mission

e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers.

The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies, and methods typical of Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence have been very prominent recently and can be of great help in finding good solutions to many practical healthcare applications.

For instance, health monitoring, health data storage, health data collection, mobile health, pervasive health, healthcare monitoring, telemedicine, context-aware computing, ubiquitous computing, processing health data in the cloud, securing health data in the cloud and Assistive Technology (AT) are areas of interest that are being addressed using cloud computing and IoT techniques. On the other hand, several challenging issues have raised due to the adoption of such emerging technologies. These include the quality of health data, the ability to retrieve information and use it in health context, as for example in tasks related to machine learning, knowledge discovery, decision support, regression, forecasting, optimization, feature selection, and additionally privacy and security issues of health data while being processed in the cloud, availability of health data, models of context and tele-monitoring of contextual applications.

ICTS4eHealth 2020 is the 5th edition of the International IEEE Workshop dedicated to ICT solutions for e-Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence.

The workshop will bring together researchers from academia, industry, government, and medical centers in order to present the state of the art in the emerging area of the use of cloud systems in connected health infrastructure and applications, and the use of IoT and Computational Intelligence technique in the area of eHealth.



Technical Program Co-Chairs

Antoine Bagula

University of the Western Cape
Republic of South Africa

Antonio Celesti

University of Messina
Italy

Ivanoe De Falco

ICAR - CNR
Italy

Giovanna Sannino

ICAR - CNR
Italy

Publicity Chair

Antonino Galletta

University of Messina
Italy

Laura Verde

ICAR - CNR
Italy



Honorary Chairs

Giuseppe De Pietro

Executive Director
ICAR - CNR
Italy

Massimo Villari

Professor
University of Messina
Italy

Topics

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):



  • Cloud computing applications for eHealth
  • Internet of Things (IoT) applications for eHealth
  • Assistive Technology (AT)
  • Networking and Monitoring in Bio-systems
  • Management and Organization of BME Environments
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Medicine
  • Monitoring of Vital Functions with Sensor and ICT Systems
  • Biosensors and Sensor Networks
  • Advanced Bio-signal Processing
  • Distributed BME Applications
  • Telehealth, Telecare, Telemonitoring, Telediagnostics
  • e-Healthcare, m-Healthcare, x-Health
  • Assisted Living
  • Smartphones in BME Applications
  • Social Networking, Computing and Education for Health
  • Computer Aided Diagnostics
  • Improved Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Methods
  • Intelligent Bio-signal Interpretation
  • Data and Visual Mining for Diagnostics
  • Advanced Medical Visualization Techniques
  • Personalized Medical Devices and Approaches
  • Modelling and Computer Simulations in BME
  • Human Responses in Extreme Environments
  • Other Emerging Topics in BME
  • e-Accessibility, web accessibility
  • Hardware & Software personalized assistive technologies
  • Assistive systems for users who are blind or visually impaired
  • Integration between home-based assistive technologies and patient health data
  • User-centered design of electronic assistive technologies
  • Usability of assistive technologies
  • Computer vision in AT
  • User interfaces for home-based assistive technologies
  • Use of prescription systems and assistive technologies
  • Experience from real world assistive environment deployment
  • Assistive Technologies for Urban Environments
  • Healthcare modeling and simulation
  • Knowledge discovery and decision support
  • Biomedical data processing
  • Wearable devices
  • Sensor-based mHealth applications


The use of Soft Computing/Computational Intelligence methods in facing problems in the above topics is highly welcome, although by no way compulsory.

Program Committee

  • Qammer Abbasi, University of Glasgow - United Kingdom
  • Mehdi Adda, Université du Québec à Rimouski - Canada
  • Mahir Arzoky, Brunel University - United Kingdom
  • Olasupo Ajayi, University of Lagos - Nigeria
  • Grigorios Beligiannis, University of Patras - Greece
  • Karsten Berns, University of Kaiserslautern - Germany
  • Nizar Bouguila, Concordia University - Canada
  • Nadia Brancati, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Pedro Brandão, University of Porto - Portugal
  • Susana Brás, Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal
  • Philipp Brauner, RWTH Aachen University - Germany
  • Giuseppe Caggianese, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma - Italy
  • Lorenzo Carnevale, IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo" - Italy
  • Fabrizio Celesti, University of Messina - Italy
  • Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University - United Kingdom
  • Christos Chrysoulas, Edinburgh Napier University - United Kingdom
  • Mario Ciampi, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Arianna Dagliati, University of Pavia - Italy
  • Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno - Italy
  • Alessandro Floris, University of Cagliari - Italy
  • Alberto Freitas, University of Porto - Portugal
  • Sebastian Fudickar, University of Oldenburg - Germany
  • Antonino Galletta, University of Messina - Italy
  • Francesco Gargiulo, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Javier Gomez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Spain
  • Ali Hassan Sodhro, Linkoping University - Sweden
  • Maged Helmy, University of Oslo - Norway
  • Martin Jacobsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Sweden
  • Eila Järvenpää, Aalto University - Finland
  • Nantia Iakovidou, King's College London - Greece
  • Omowunmi Isafiade, University of the Western Cape - South Africa
  • Tomas Koutny, University of West Bohemia - Czech Republic
  • Mikel Larrea, Universidad del País Vasco - Spain
  • Barbara Leporini, CNR - ISTI - Italy
  • Eirini Liotou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Greece
  • Xing Liu, Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Canada
  • João Alexandre Lobo Marques, University of Saint Joseph - Macao
  • Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University - United Kingdom
  • Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace - France
  • Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València - Spain
  • Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal - South Africa
  • Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University - USA
  • Florian Metzger, University of Würzburg - Germany
  • Alina Miron, Brunel University - United Kingdom
  • Clement Nyirenda, University of the Western Cape - South Africa
  • Helder Oliveira, University of Porto - Portugal
  • Ilídio Oliveira, University of Aveiro - Portugal
  • Giovanni Paragliola, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Dipti Patil, Pune University - India
  • Zahra Pezeshki, Shahrood University of Technology - Iran
  • Marco Picone, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Italy
  • Niki Pissinou, Florida International University - USA
  • Nuno Pombo, University of Beira Interior - Portugal
  • Seyed Amin Pouriyeh, Kennesaw State University - USA
  • Joseph Rafferty, University of Ulster - United Kingdom
  • Giovanni Schiboni, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften - Switzerland
  • Maurizio Schmid, Roma Tre University - Italy
  • Stefano Silvestri, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Jan Sliwa, University of Applied Sciences Bern - Switzerland
  • Joaquin Aparicio Sosa, University of Oslo - Norway
  • Angelo Steffenel, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - France
  • Stephen Swift, Brunel University - United Kingdom
  • Ernesto Tarantino, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Anastasia Theodouli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece
  • Allan Tucker, Brunel University - United Kingdom
  • Francesco Tusa, University College London - United Kingdom
  • Lucia Vaira, University of Salento - Italy
  • Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus - Cyprus
  • Laura Verde, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR-CNR - Italy
  • Matthew Williams, Imperial College London - United Kingdom
  • Chika Yinka-Banjo , University of Lagos - Nigeria
  • Marco Zappatore, University of Salento - Italy

Should you wish to join it, please contact us

Submission

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings here.

Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

All papers should be submitted via EasyChair using https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiscc2020

Please, contact us for any questions regarding the submission of manuscripts.

Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2020 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas.

Authors must use the IEEE conference proceedings format obtainable at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html


Best Paper Award

A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee.


COVID-19 Update

The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Please know that our thoughts are with those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

After studying and evaluating the recent announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant national departments, we are sorry to announce that ICTS4eHealth 2020, scheduled to be held July 07, 2020, will no longer be held face to face in Rennes, France.

Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to upload a 15 minutes presentation of their work, and their video will be available through this website to all interested readers. So, by submitting to the ICTS4eHealth workshop you automatically agree to publish your presentation if your paper will be accepted.

Accepted papers will be anyway included in the ISCC 2020 Proceedings, and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp, and Scopus.

For each paper accepted at ICTS4eHealth workshop, one of the authors will have to pay a reduced fee just to cover the IEEExplore costs:

  • - IEEE Author Member Fee: 100 Euros
  • - IEEE Authors Non-Member Fee: 125 Euros

Important Dates



Due to the high number of very competitive papers submitted to the workshop,
the notifications to the authors could be subject to a slight delay.
We are sorry for any possible inconvenience.

  Submission deadline: April 25, 2020 - extended to May 09, 2020

  Notification of paper acceptance: May 15, 2020 - extended to May 29, 2020

  Submission of camera-ready papers: May 25, 2020 - extended to June 18, 2020

  Registration: May 25, 2020 - extended to June 18, 2020

All papers should be submitted via EasyChair using https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiscc2020

Please, contact us for any questions regarding the submission of manuscripts.

Venue

COVID-19 UPDATE

The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Please know that our thoughts are with those affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

After studying and evaluating the recent announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant national departments, we are sorry to announce that ICTS4eHealth 2020, scheduled to be held July 07, 2020, will no longer be held face to face in Rennes, France.

Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to upload a 15 minutes presentation of their work, and their video will be available through this website to all interested readers. So, by submitting to the ICTS4eHealth workshop you automatically agree to publish your presentation if your paper will be accepted.