annette ten teije uyekdegcsvunl call papers ecai06 workshop ai techniques healthcare evidencebased guidelines protocols italy august 29 2006 submission deadline april 15 2006 httpwwwcsvunlannetteecai06wscfphtml description recent years medical guidelines protocols become main instruments disseminating best practices clinical medicine promote safe practices reduce interclinician practice variations support decisionmaking patient care containing costs care far proved useful improving quality consistency healthcare supporting healthcare quality assessment assurance clinical decision workflow resource management etc benefits using clinical guidelines widely recognized yet guideline development process time resourceconsuming size complexity guidelines remains major hurdle effectively using clinical care many organizations develop today computerized guidelines well decision support systems incorporate guidelines computerized protocols generated based guidelines ensuring pointofcare patientspecific evidencebased therapy instructions carried little interclinician variability several methods developed support development deployment maintenance use evidencebased guidelines using techniques artificial intelligence software engineering medical informatics formal methods methods employ different representation formalisms computational techniques rulebased logicbased knowledgebased workflowbased despite guidelinerelated research spanning large range ai research community well research areas comprehensive integration results communities still lacking aim due large interest interdisciplinary effort integrate results different communities guideline development deployment use following successes similar workshops conferences scgp httpwwwontomeddeeneventsewglp2000 leipzig 2000 scgp httpeuromisevseczcgp04indexhtml prague 2004 aime track httpwwwcsdabdnacukaime05 aberdeen 2005 workshop bring together researchers different branches ai examine cuttingedge approaches guideline modeling development consider different communities cooperate address challenges list topics original contributions sought regarding development theory techniques use cases artificial intelligence area health care particularly connected guideline protocols scope workshop includes limited following areas use ontologies conceptual models medical vocabularies computerized guidelines protocols standardization guideline models interfaces clinical information systems guideline markup languages document models uses acquisition refinement exploration temporal aspect guidelines protocols supporting life cycle guidelines protocols guideline workbenches visualization methods guideline protocol validation verification use formal simulation techniques computerized guidelines use cases computerized guidelines protocols integration computerized guidelines care delivery process use guidelines quality assessment critiquing evaluation quality safety computerized guidelines medical decision support systems machine learning methods data mining statistical models support authoring maintenance medical protocols tools supporting authoring execution maintenance protocols guidelines support natural language generation understanding connection medical protocols guidelines interoperability clinical guidelines knowledge management guidelines protocols casestudies overviews modelling simulation verification frameworks guidelines protocols schedule deadline paper submissions 15 april 2006 notification acceptance 10 may 2006 final cameraready manuscripts 24 may 2006 workshop date 29 august 2006 submission guidelines submissions made email workshop cochair annette ten teije uyekdegcsvunl pdf format follow springer format httpwwwspringerdecomplncsauthorshtml two categories paper submissions full research papers 10 pages short papers 5 pages short research papers demonstration implemented systems sufficient quality available among workshop submissions investigate publication selected papers part lnai springer series workshop organising committee annette ten teije vrije universiteit netherlands cochair peter lucas radboud university nijmegen netherlands cochair silvia miksch vienna university technology danube university krems austria cochair contact details annette ten teije uyekdegcsvunl department ai faculty sciences vrije universiteit amsterdam de boelelaan 1081a 1081hv amsterdam netherlands tel 3120598 77217483 program committee michael balser university augsburg germany paul de clercq university maastricht netherlands subrata das charles river analytics usa john fox cancer research uk david glasspool cancer research uk robert greenes harvard university usa frank van harmelen vrije universiteit amsterdam netherlands jim hunter university aberdeen scotland mar marcos universitat jaum castellon spain lucila ohnomachado harvard medical school usa mor peleg haifa university israel silvana quaglini university pavia italy wolfgang reif university augsburg germany kitty rosenbrand dutch institute healthcare improvement cbo netherlands radu serban vrije universiteit amsterdam netherlands brigitte seroussi stim dpadsiaphp france andreas seyfang vienna university technology austria yuval shahar bengurion university israel paolo terenziani univ del piemonte orientale amedeo avogadro italy samson tu stanford university usa dongwen wang university rochester usa jeremy wyatt national institute clinical excellence uk thu 07 aug 2008 021028 0100 uai 2nd cfp ecai06 workshop ai techniques healthcare evidencebased guidelines protocols