ICOST2020: International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24-26, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.icost-society.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost_2020 |
Submission deadline | February 21, 2020 |
This year we are organizing the 18th ICOST conference which succeeded in bringing together a community from different continents over more than a decade and a half and raised the awareness of frail and dependant people's quality of life in our societies.
After seventeen successful conferences held in France (2003), Singapore (2004), Canada(2005), Northern Ireland (2006), Japan (2007), Singapore (2008), France (2009), Korea (2010), Canada (2011), Italy (2012), Singapore (2013), USA (2014), Switzerland (2015), China (2016), France (2017), Singapore (2018) and USA (2019), ICOST 2020 edition will be for the first time hosted in the African continent ), in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 24th to 26th June 2020. The conference will be organized by the Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia (CRNS), Institut Mines-Telecom, Paris, France, and the Laboratory on Development and Control of Distributed Applications of Sfax, Tunisia (REDCAD). Our theme for this year will be "The Digital Technologies Impact on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries".
ICOST provides a premier venue for the presentation and discussion of research in the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of Artificial intelligence for health, Smart Urban Environments, Assistive Technologies, Chronic Disease Management, Coaching and Health Telematics systems. Submitted papers will be blind reviewed by an international committee bringing together multidisciplinary experts’ renown worldwide in different fields of research (Engineering, clinical, public health, humanities, and social sciences, etc.).
The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of technical, clinical, and industrial related keynote speakers, plenary oral sessions, and poster presentations along with prototypes demonstrations and technical exhibits. ICOST brings together stakeholders from clinical, PHOs (Public Health Organizations), academics, NGOs, policymakers, and industrial perspectives to explore how to utilize technologies to foster future health management and prevention, independent living, offering an enhanced quality of life. ICOST 2020 invites all participants to share and discuss their experiences and lessons learned.
We look forward to welcoming you to ICOST2020 in Hammamet!
List of Topics
Leveraging on the results of European R&D Framework HORIZON 2020 and in line with future HORIZON EUROPE framework programs priorities, ICOST provides a multidisciplinary venue focusing on analyzing the impact of ICTs in public health and wellbeing of citizens all over the world. ICOST’2020 aims at bridging the gap between developed and developing countries facing health and wellbeing challenges with this edition theme "The Digital Technologies Impact on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries". ICOST 2020 is especially interested in receiving submissions focused on technologies, humanities, and social sciences, clinical, and public health for an Enhanced Wellbeing and Health for all nations.
ICOST 2020 topics include, but are not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence for participatory and personalized health
- Deep learning for health and wellbeing
- Big Data analytics in e-health
- AI and Ethics
- Internet of Things (IoT) for smart living and e-Health
- Wearable Sensors / Integrated Micro/Nano Systems for wellbeing and e-Health
- Smart Urban Spaces and new Assistive Living Space Concepts in the Smart City
- Policy and Guidelines for Public Health 2.0 and Quality of Life in Smart City
- Urban Cities design for wellbeing and e-health
- E-Health and Chronic Diseases Management
- Assistive Technology for aging and frail people
- Persuasive and Supportive Mobile e-Health
- Coaching and Urban Gaming for e-Health
- Innovative Therapeutic approaches and systems
- Personal Robotics and smart Wheelchairs for e-health
- Collaborative robotics (Cobots)
- Virtual personal assistant for e-Health
- Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
- Smart Homes / Home Networks / Residential Gateways
- Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing
- Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Smart Environments
- Human-Machine Interfaces
- Health in All Policies (HiAP)
- Public health and urban Data Collection and Processing
- Preventive and predictive medicine
- Participatory Telehealth systems
- Translational medicine for Health and Wellbeing
- Protective systems/devices against common and emerging infectious diseases
- Social acceptance / Privacy / Data protection / Security Issues
- Health Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis
- Human Factors, Ethics, and Usability of e-health solutions
- Trusted systems and verification for health and wellness
ICOST 2020 invites participants to present and discuss their experiences in the understanding, design, development, test-beds deployment, and evaluation of technologies that demonstrate significant contributions in the areas of smart environments, public health policies, chronic disease management, and assistive technologies focused on indoor living spaces (e.g., homes, nursing homes, and assistive living facilities) as well as the outdoors (e.g., urban smart spaces or the entire smart city).
Proposals for special sessions or plenary panels addressing any of the following specific topics are especially welcome:
- Studies detailing with large-scale service deployment and impact evaluation
- The application of cost-effective and readily available ‘everyday’ technologies to support people with chronic conditions and others with cognitive disabilities at home, school, work or play
- Health economic evaluation of technology-based solutions
- Challenges for smart living environments and inclusive communities
- Societal impact and policy formulation
- Technology solutions to inspire policymakers
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers, posters, case studies, research and project exhibits and technology demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas of interest for this conference as well as proposals for Special Sessions.
The submission for evaluation should be in the form of a 12 pages paper written in English. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer in Open Access. No registration extra fees will be applied for Open Access publication.
Submitted papers shall not exceed 12 pages and must follow the guidelines found on the conference website: http://www.icost-society.org/authorinstructions.html.
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF and Word/Latex format at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost_2020
Publication
Accepted papers will be published by Springer as Open Access. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in a Special Issue of Sensors-MDPI Open-Access Journal (Impact Factor 3.031).
Volumes published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series are indexed by the EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), Scopus and ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science.
ICOST conference is also ranked by the COmputing Research and Eduction (CORE) Conference portal.
Committees
Conference General Chair
- Prof. Mohamed Jmaiel, University of Sfax, Director of The Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia
Conference Co-Chair
- Prof. Mounir Mokhtari, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
Program Committee Chairs
- Prof. Bessam Abdulrazak, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Dr. Hamdi Aloulou, Digital Research Center of Sfax, Tunisia / Institut Mines-Telecom, France
Organizing Committee Chair
- Dr. Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Conference Scientific Committee
- Prof. Maria Teresa Arredondo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Prof. Mounir Mokhtari, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
- Prof. Mohamed Jmaiel, Digital Reseach Center of Sfax, Tunisia
- Prof. Jose Pagan, New York University, USA
- Prof. Sumi Helal, Lancaster University, UK
- Prof. Hisato Kobayashi, Hosei University, Japan
- Prof. Daqing Zhang, Telecom SudParis, France
- A/Prof. Maria Fernanda Cabrera, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Prof. Jongbae Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
- Prof. Bes sam Abdulrazak, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Prof. Dong Jin Song, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- A/Prof. Hamdi Aloulou, Digital Reseach Center of Sfax, Tunisia/Instit Mines Télécom, France
- Prof. Sungyoung Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- Dr. Daby Sow, IBM Watson, New York, USA
- Prof. Timo Jämsä, Oulu University, Finland
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icost2020[at]easychair.org