The HealthGrid conference this year will take place just at the time the European Grid Initiative will start federating the national grid initiatives and propose its resources to the Research Infrastructures. The conference program will include a number of high profile keynote presentations complemented by a set of refereed papers, which will be selected through the present call. Out of the selected papers, the best will be invited for oral presentations and the others for poster presentations. All the selected papers will be published in the book series „Studies in Health Technology and Informatics“ published by IOS Press and referenced in Medline, Scopus, EMCare and Cinahl Databases

Call for papers and posters

Contributions should be made as full research papers (up to 5,000 words in length and maximum 10 pages). Selection for oral or poster presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, the originality of their contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and importance to the field. Oral presentations could include demonstrations.

All papers must be submitted electronically. Please refer to the conference website for upload instructions. The guidelines for authors and support tools are those of the series „Studies in Health Technology and Informatics“ (see URLs below). Papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas and topics:

A: ACCESSIBILITY

Challenges to making grids more accessible to bio-medical users Scientific gateways Workflow engines Grid portals Grid platforms

B: CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION Grid technology versus web applications Data privacy: confidentiality in distributed medical information systems – and the security challenges Knowledge integration – knowledge management Semantic techniques and the challenge of integrating heterogeneous biomedical data Visualization in Grids

C: APPLICATIONS Bioinformatics Biomedical informatics Medical imaging Public health informatics Genetics and epidemiological studies Pharmaceutical R&D: drug discovery, clinical tests Grid computing and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH)

D: SOCIO ECONOMIC ASPECTS Grid business aspects: sustainability and go-tomarket strategies Experiences on production Grid used in real business Grid sociology: how to win society for Grids?

E: THE FUTURE OF GRIDS Experiences with GP-GPU Cloud computing, on demand computing Nanomedecine

For more details go to the Conference website

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