The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), established in 1986, aims at

· fostering fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to medical care and medical research, and

· providing a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences.

A major activity of this society has been a series of international conferences, held biennially over the last 14 years

The AIME’01 conference will be a unique opportunity to present and improve the international state of the art of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine from both a research and an applications perspective. For this purpose, AIME’01 will include invited lectures, contributed papers, system demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

Original contributions are sought regarding the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine, including the evaluation of health care programmes. Contributions to theory may include presentation or analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve medical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation, and discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of the system.

The scope includes the following areas:

· Knowledge acquisition and its representation, refinement, validation and maintenance

· Machine learning and data mining

· Decision support systems, including knowledge based systems, neural networks, belief networks, and statistical models

· Uncertain, temporal, and case based reasoning

· Planning and scheduling

· Natural language generation and understanding

· Computer vision, image and signal interpretation

· Intelligent agents and information retrieval

· Telemedicine and knowledge management in intranets and the Internet, including careflow systems

· Cognitive modeling

Papers should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages, and should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format (details in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit the papers electronically, following the instructions provided in the conference web page.

Papers must be original and must not have been published before. Authors are requested to classify their submitted papers using the categories given in the scope. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two independent referees.

The working language is English.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of Springer's "Lecture Notes in AI" series. In addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier).

As in previous editions, proposals for the organisation of tutorials and satelite workshops are sought regarding any of the above topic areas.

Proposals for tutorials 31 January 2001

Proposals for workshops 31 January 2001

Receipt of full papers 31 January 2001

Notification of acceptance 23 March 2001

Final camera-ready manuscripts 13 April 2001