IWISH 2017- Call for paper!
The International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Healthcare (IWISH 2017)
http://www.msc-les.org/conf/iwish2017/index.html

Dates and Location
September 18-20, 2017
IWISH 2017 will be held in Barcelona, in cooperation with the I3M 2017 MultiConference

Key Dates – Deadlines
Abstracts or full draft papers, April 15th 2017
Acceptance Notification, May 15th 2017
Camera Ready Papers, June 15th 2017

Journals Opportunities
IWISH 2016 had several different journal special issues based on the best papers submitted to the conference. Currently, the Organization Committee is working to provide the IWISH 2017 attendees with many and good journal publication opportunities.

Indexing on SCOPUS
The IWISH proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS.

Workshop Aim
A holistic view of healthcare leads to an interdisciplinary field of research ranging from life-science to management disciplines. The increasing computational power and the tight integration of natural and computational sciences open the doors to new paradigms in life science research. The huge complexity of biological systems let deterministic and deductive methods reach its limitations, thus large scale simulations together with advanced methods of modeling are new tools to get insight into the huge diversity of healthcare. This workshop, part of the I3M Multiconference, aims to bring together scientists from engineering, natural and life sciences to stimulate discussion on new methods and topics in the emerging field of health care. Tracks shall cover the main aspects of health care. It shall not only provide a forum for presentation of novel approaches and methods of advanced simulation for both modeling and analysis but also provide meaningful results and applications. We welcome high-quality, original scientific contributions and will consider them for publication. The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera-ready papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2 columns). Please refer to the on line authors instruction section.

Submission system and registration procedure
Detailed information’s on the submission system and the registration procedures are available on the official conference website http://www.cal-tek.eu/submissions/iwish2017/

Venue
IWISH 2017 will be held in Barcelona.

Workshop Topics
Computer aided diagnostics and therapy
- Modelling and simulation in bio-systems, physiology, cardiology, anaesthesia, cancer, circulatory system, respiratory system, renal system, biomechanics
- Virtual Reality in surgical procedures
- Virtual Reality for the treatment of disorders and/or rehabilitation
- Virtual Reality for development and validation of medical simulators
- Model based information processing of medical images
- Advanced methods in model based image processing
- New methods of diagnostic imaging
- New paradigms in functional imaging, e.g. PET and MR
- Reconstruction in computed tomography
- Model based segmentation and registration
- Simulation in the context of diagnostics
- Simulation of emergency procedures (disaster gaming)
- Simulation of disease proliferation
- Disease management
- Healthcare networks
- Clinical information flows
Cellular and Molecular Models in Medicine
- Simulation in genetics and system biology
- Simulating biological phenomena and organs
- Modeling and recognition of regulatory motifs and modules
- Pharmacometric modelling
- Physiological simulations
- Drug inventory management
- Personalized drugs design
- Algorithms in DNA analysis
- Tissue engineering
- Molecular tumour diagnostics
- Novel methods in DNA arrays
- Protein structure analysis
- Regulatory networks, metabolic networks, proteomic networks
- Databases in Bioinformatics
- Protein ontology data bases
- Novel HPC-paradigms in Bioinformatics
Management of Healthcare
- Waiting time issues in hospitals
- Patient pathways
- Modelling Emergency Departments
- Modelling ancillary services
- Patient flows in outpatient facilities
- Simulation for surgical and clinic scheduling
- Simulation for logistics of healthcare
- Simulation of patient care
- Models of elderly people care
- Healthcare policy analysis
- Ambulance planning
- Simulation for health economics analysis
- Modelling of clinical environments
Modelling and Simulation for Biosciences and Bioinformatics
- Exploratory Bioinformatics and Computational Biological models, simulations and tools for helping Bioscientists
- Modeling and simulation as decision support for assisting Bioscientists and Medical practitioners
- Agent-based Modeling and simulation for Biological Systems, Healthcare facilities or Social Systems etc.
- Verification and Validation of Biological Simulations
- Equation based Modeling of Biological Systems
- Development and analysis of Complex Biological and Social Networks (Formal Specification, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation)
- Modeling and Simulation in System Biology
- Modeling and simulation of congenital disorders
- Modeling and simulation of epidemics and other diseases
- HIV/AIDS related M&S
- Tumor Growth modeling and Simulation
- Distributed Simulation of Biological Systems
- Formal Specification and Models such as using Z formal specification language, Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) etc.
- Use of Cognitive Computation and AI techniques such as Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Bio-inspired techniques, swarm intelligence algorithms for developing models of Biological systems
- Modeling and Simulation of Body Sensor Networks for e-Health
- Modeling and Simulation of Pervasive and Ambient Assisted Living systems, Disease Tracking and Monitoring systems
- Artificial Life related topics.
Detailed topics description and current list of tracks/workshops available at http://www.msc-les.org/conf/iwish2017/tracks.html

Contact and Information
For further information please contact Francesco Longo (f.longo@unical.it), Marina Massei (massei@itim.unige.it) or iwish2017@msc-les.org.

We look forward to welcoming you in Barcelona.
Best Regards,

IWISH 2017 Organization Committee