The 4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Technologies for HealthCare (AATCare)
November 5-8, 2018
Leuven, Belgium  
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AATCare 2018 intends to provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the-art research and developmental work in the broad areas of Ambient Assisted Technologiesin healthcare. AATCare will be held in Leuven, Belgium (5-8 November 2018) in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2018).

Important Dates
- Paper Submission Due:  July 16, 2018 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2018
- Final Manuscript Due:    Septmebr 8, 2018

Scope

Ambient Assisted Technologies and techniques with the smart devices have evolved into an active area of research and development in healthcare systems. This is due to the healthcare system that faces diverse and complex everyday challenges, ranging from used equipment and drug inventory management to patients’ records. In addition to these challenges are patient monitoring, scheduling and follow-up managements in hospitals, homes and nursing homes, as well as providing the appropriate transportation. 

AATCare aims to bring together people from both academia and industry for original discussions and to prompt future directions in the development of new techniques and strategies for healthcare. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Context and situation awareness 
• Human-Agent Interactions
• Human-Computer Interactions
• Intelligent data fusion and aggregation
• Intelligent query and data dissemination
• Intelligent systems in hospitals
• Knowledge modeling and reasoning
• Mobile peer-to-peer systems for healthcare
• Patients diagnosis and monitoring systems
• Patients transportations
• Recommender systems for healthcare
• Robotics in healthcare
• Secure systems using smart techniques for healthcare
• Security, trust and privacy in healthcare
• Sensors and actuators for healthcare
• Simulation tools and methods for healthcare
• Smart sensors for healthcare
• Smart systems for patient care
• Software agents in healthcare

Paper Format
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Elsevier.

Paper Length
Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures, tables and references.

Paper Submission
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking “I have no EasyChair account” button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by

Publication
All AATCare 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the following special issues:

Organizing committee
  Naba Haque, KellyOCG, Belgium
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
  Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium

Publicity Chair
  Wim Ectors, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium

Contact
  Email to: Elhadi.Shakshuki@acadiau.ca