<div dir="ltr"> CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Dear All, We enthusiastically invite you to submit your paper to the “1st International Workshop on Evolutionary Computing for Health Care (ECHC2021)” URL: <a href="http://www.worldcist.org/index.php" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://www.worldcist.org/index.php</a> =========================== DEADLINES =========================== Submission: November 08, 2020 Notification: December 23, 2020 Final Versions and Conference Registration: January 2, 2021 Conference: Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal, from 30th March to 1st April 2021. =========================== ABOUT THE WORKSHOP =========================== The 1st International Workshop on Evolutionary Computing for Health Care at WorldCIST 2021 (ECHC2021), aims to be a forum where researchers, practitioners and industry representatives have the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work. Similarly, explains the systems and effective research contribution in health care using evolutionary computing approaches. Evolutionary Computing covers a number of nature-inspired computational methodologies, mainly Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Fuzzy Sets, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Swarm Intelligence, and their hybridizations for addressing the real-world problems. Due to the several reasons of conventional modeling such as complexity, existent of uncertainties, and the stochastic nature of the processes, conventional modeling approach is useless. According to the success of evolutionary computing methods and techniques in health care applications, it can expected that these methods can also be applied successfully to solve the medical issues in terms of Cancer Diagnosis, Brain Tumor, Diabetic Retinopathy, Heart disease and presentation of images captured via X-Ray, Ultrasound, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Visual Imaging technologies. In this context, computational intelligence paradigms are comprising of numerous branches (including Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, Expert Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Fuzzy Systems, and Artificial Immune systems) can play a vital role for handling the different aspects of health care. We invite such papers which target the creativity, design, and engineering-related challenges such as new algorithms, systems, methodology, datasets, evaluations, surveys, reproduced results, and negative results. =========================== TOPIC OF INTEREST =========================== Includes but are not limited to the following: • Medical Imaging • Medical Signal Processing • Medical Text Analysis • Clinical Diagnosis and Therapy • Data Mining Medical Data and Records • Clinical Expert Systems • Modeling and Simulation of Medical Processes • Genomic-based Clinical Studies • Patient-centric Care • Health Care Informatics • Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing • Evolutionary Computing for Recommendation in Healthcare =========================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES =========================== Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers for evaluation by the Program’s Committee of workshop. All papers must follow the formatting rules for Proceedings in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website) and be written in English. Submissions must be of one of two types: Full paper: Finished and consolidated R&D works. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit and Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit. All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two/three members of the Program Committee of the specific workshop. The version of papers for evaluation by the Program Committee, saved in PDF format, must not include identification, e-mail and affiliation of the authors. This information must only be available in the camera-ready version of accepted papers, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. Full and short papers accepted and registered will be published in Proceedings by Springer, will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. The authors of the best-selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in renowned international journals indexed by ISI, SCOPUS and DBLP (see WorldCIST conference website for more details). =========================== FEATURES =========================== The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in international journals indexed by ISI/SCI, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others, such as: · International Journal of Neural Systems (IF: 5.605 / Q1) · Neural Computing and Applications (IF: 4.774 / Q1) · Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 3.058 / Q1) · Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (IF: 1.558 / Q2) · Expert Systems - Journal of Knowledge Engineering (IF: 1.546 / Q2) · Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IF: 1.851 / Q3) · Journal of Computer Information Systems (IF: 1.582 / Q3) · Computer Science and Information Systems (IF: 0.927 / Q4) =========================== ORGANIZERS =========================== · Prof Dr. Jamil Ahmad, Senior Member IEEE, HU, Pakistan, · Prof Dr. Zia Ul Qayyum, AIOU, Pakistan, · Prof Dr. Liang GAO, HUST, China, · Dr. Waqas Haider Bangyal, UOG, Pakistan =========================== CONTACT =========================== Please feel free to reach out for further details. Dr. Waqas Haider Bangyal, <a href="mailto:waqas_bangyal@hotmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">waqas_bangyal@hotmail.com</a> </div>