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MAS*BIOMED - First International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics
Netherlands - Utrecht

Hosted by: To be held at the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Venue: Utrecht University
Dates: Jul 25, 2005 through Jul 26, 2005

Call for Proceedings Presentations: 2005-01-01 through 2005-03-14
 
Description
 
There is growing evidence that agent technology can be useful in designing and implementing solutions aimed at supporting the automation of medical and biological domains. While it is essential for computer scientists and software developers to understand the specific problems in medicine and biology, it is also essential for an expert of either domain to understand the capabilities of agent technology.

The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together and create synergies between researchers working on software agents, on the one hand, and medicine, computational biology and bioinformatics, on the other hand, to discuss relevant issues and approaches aimed at assessing and promoting the adoption of agent technology in such fields. In principle, the workshop will mainly focus on the benefits of adopting agent technology in: (i) storing, accessing, and distributing relevant medical or biological data, (ii) implementing the automation of information-gathering and information-inference processes in medical and biological settings, (iii) supporting e-Health care, (iv) simulating and modelling biological systems.

This Workshop aims to attract both theoretically and practically oriented papers in this thriving area in the intersection of medicine and biology with computer science. The workshop will also focus on supporting infrastructures, such as agent-based systems, tools, languages, ontologies, and networking facilities for medicine, bioinformatics and computational biology. Papers on the application and evaluation of agent approaches to the solution of problems in these fields will be particularly sought.

The key open discussions will be focused on the strength and limitations of software agents in medical domains. The questions to be addressed would be like: Why can agent technology provides a better solution than current ones? What are the limitations of agent technology with respect to medical and biological problems? Why can software agents succeed where traditional Artificial Intelligence technology/expert systems have reached their limits? What is the priorities of actions when introducing this technology in the medical and biological fields?

Thus, we envision this workshop to be a mixture of presentations and open discussions of the attendees.
 
Additional Information
 
Event URL: http://www.diee.unica.it/biomed05
ISCB Member Discount: None
Contact Person: Giuliano Armano ([javascript protected email address])

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