Contributions and Instructions for Authors

Full papers or structured abstracts for the conference should be submitted on or before 15th December 1998 (send three copies to the programme committee chair, Werner Horn).

Full papers or structured abstracts for the first workshop should be submitted preferably in electronic format (word, pdf or postscript) no later than March 1st, 1999 to the workshop chair, Silvia Miksch (see Conference addresses).

Structured abstracts (up to 4 pages) for the second workshop are to be addressed to Ameen Abu-Hanna no later than March 1st, 1999. Electronic submissions are encouraged (either postscript files or plain text). Alternatively, 3 paper copies may be submitted. Note that authors planning to submit a structured abstract to the workshop may also submit their contributions (as a full paper or a structured abstract) to the main conference of AIMDM´99.

For details concerning the workshop "Prognostic Models in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Decision-analytic Approaches", consult: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~lucas/ipm-aimdm99.html

The following details only apply to submissions for AIMDM'99 and the associated workshop on "Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care"

For further details on the workshop, please follow this link: Computers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Full papers: These should not exceed 5000 words, or a maximum of 10 pages. Full papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format, details of which can be obtained from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, or by writing to the programme committee chair.

Structured abstracts: These should be a maximum of one page A4 with the text fitting within a box 16 cm wide and 22 cm high. The title of the abstract should be in 12 point bold format with author details and main text being 12 point font, single line spaced, preferably in Times font. Abstracts should be structured with the following headings: Objective, methods, results and conclusions.

Authors are requested to classify their submitted paper or abstract using the categories given in the scope and to sate their preference for oral presentation or poster. Papers and abstracts must be original and must not have been published before. All papers and abstracts will be carefully reviewed by at least two independent referees. Full papers and structured abstracts will be presented either as oral presentations or posters. The working language is English. All accepted full papers (not workshop papers) will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published as part of the Springer Verlag "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). Structured abstracts will be included in a separate supplement distributed at the conference.