ICOST'2019: International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health New York University New York, NY, United States, October 14-16, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.icost-society.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost2019 |
Submission deadline | August 2, 2019 |
the Organizing Community has decided to launch a late papers submission call.
This year we are organizing the 17th 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 dependent people's quality of life in our societies.
After sixteen successful conferences held in France (2003), Singapore (2004), Canada (2005), Northern Ireland (2006), Japan (2007), USA (2008), France (2009), Korea (2010), Canada (2011), Italy (2012), Singapore (2013), USA (2014), Switzerland (2015), China (2016), France (2017) and Singapore (2018), we have decided to open the conference to public health experts and tackle emerging challenges related to AI technologies for health and wellbeing. ICOST now stands for International Conference On Smart living and Public Health and our theme for this year will be "How does AI impact urban living and public health?". ICOST 2019 edition will be hosted by New York University (NYU) and the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), in New York City, USA, from 14th to 16th October 2019.
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. This year, ICOST aims at understanding and assessing how research impacts Public Health policies in facing emerging social and economic challenges. ICOST brings together stakeholders from clinical, PHOs (Public Health Organizations), academics and industrial perspectives along with end users and family caregivers to explore how to utilize technologies to foster health prevention, independent living, and offer enhanced quality of life. ICOST 2019 invites participants to present and discuss their experiences and lessons learned.
The conference features a dynamic program incorporating a range of technical, clinical, and industrial related keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations along with demonstrations and technical exhibits.
We look forward to welcoming you to ICOST2019 in New York City!
Important Dates
- 2nd August 2019: Late papers submission
- 5th July 2019: Full papers submission
- 17th June 2019: Demonstration proposals submission
- 18th August 2019: Papers acceptance notification
- 18th August 2019: Demonstrations acceptance notification
- 25th August 2019: Papers camera-ready
- 25th August 2019: Registration
List of Topics
ICOST 2019 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.
COST 2019 topics include, but are not limited to:
- Public health and urban Data Collection and Processing
- Policy and Guidelines for Public Health 2.0 and Quality of Life in Smart City
- Health in All Policies (HiAP)
- Health Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis
- Artificial Intelligent for Participatory and Personalized Health
- Deep learning for health and wellbeing
- Big Data analytics
- Human-Machine Interface
- Social acceptance / Privacy / Data protection / Security Issues
- Smart Urban Spaces and new Assistive Living Space Concepts in the Smart City
- Urban design for wellbeing and e-health
- Participatory Telehealth systems
- Design and Future Urban Cities for wellbeing
- Preventive medicine
- Predictive medicine
- Translational medicine for Wellbeing
- E-Health and Chronic Diseases Management
- Assistive Technology for aging and dependent people
- E-Health and Therapeutic Education
- Coaching and Urban Gaming for e-Health
- Virtual personal assistant for e-Health
- Internet of Things (IoT) for smart living and e-Health
- Persuasive and Supportive Mobile e-Health
- Personal Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs
- Collaborative robotics (Cobots)
- Trusted systems and verification for health and wellness
- Human Factors, Ethics, and Usability for Persons with Cognitive Impairments
- Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments
- Cognitive technologies across the lifespan and functional abilities
- Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
- Protective systems/devices against common and emerging infectious diseases.
- Smart Homes / Home Networks / Residential Gateways
- Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematic Services
- Wearable Sensors / Integrated Micro/Nano Systems / Home Health Monitoring
- Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing
COST 2019 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). ICOST 2019 will provide a dynamic program which will incorporate a range of technical, clinical and industrial related international keynote speeches, panels, and oral and poster presentations along with demonstrations and technical exhibits.
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
There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers, posters, 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 8 to 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.
Accepted papers should be submitted with up to 8 pages. Up to 4 extra pages are accepted, however, they will be charged 30€/page.
Accepted papers must follow the guidelines found on the conference website http://www.icost-society.org/authorinstructions.html.
Submission: Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF or RTF/DOC format at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icost2019
Publication
ICOST'2019 proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 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 (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0). ICOST conference is also ranked by the COmputing Research and Eduction (CORE) Conference portal
Submission of Demonstration Proposals
Researchers and industry experts with significant contributions in the areas of smart cities, urban design, smart homes, health telematics, chronic disease management, and assistive technologies are encouraged to participate and present research prototypes or innovative systems to ICOST participants. ICOST 2019 invites interested researchers and industry experts to send a description of the system that will be demonstrated and a short presentation of the research teams/industrial involved in the demo. The description should be limited to one page and should be submitted to icost2019[at]easychair.org.
Authors interested to provide a short demonstration in conjunction with paper presentations should append a one-page section in their papers with heading: 'demonstration description' detailing the scenario to be demonstrated.
The organizing committee will review the proposals and select a number of demos to be showcased during the conference. ICOST will provide free space for nominated demos pending that presenters are registered as regular participants to the conference. Demos' presenters will be responsible for bringing and setting up any computer equipment needed for the demo.
Committees
Conference General Chair
- Jose Pagan Professor, New York University and the New York Academy of Medicine, USA
Conference Co-Chairs
- Mounir Mokhtari Professor, Institut Mines-Telecom, France / Image & Pervasive Access Lab, Singapore
- Maria Fernanda Cabrera Professor, University Politecnica of Madrid, Spain
Program Committee Chairs
- Bessam Abdulrazak Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Hamdi Aloulou Associate Professor, University of Monastir, Tunisia
Scientific Committee
- Mounir Mokhtari Professor, Institut Mines Télécom, France / Image & Pervasive Access Lab, Singapore
- Bessam Abdulrazak Professor, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Sumi Helal Professor and Chair in Digital Health, Lancaster University (2017-present). Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Florida (1998-2017)
- Hamdi Aloulou Associate Professor, University of Monastir, Tunisia
- Daqing Zhang Professor in Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Systems, Institut Mines Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France
- Hisato Kobayashi Professor of Hosei University, Vice director of Hosei University Information Technology Research Center, Japan
- Jongbae Kim Associate Professor of Department of Occupational Therapy, Director of Yonsei Enabling Science and Technology Research Center, Yonsei University, Korea
- Christian Roux Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation, Institut Mines Télécom, France
- Dong Jin Song Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore / Professor and Director, Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Australia.
- Sungyoung Lee Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- Timo Jämsä Professor in Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland
- Daby Sow Ph.D., Principal Research Staff Member Manager, Biomedical Analytics and Modeling Center for Computational Health. IBM Research AI, Yorktown, NY, USA
Organizing Committee
- Antoine de Marassé Enouf Project Manager, Institut Mines-Telecom, France / Image & Pervasive Access Lab, Singapore
- Hamdi Aloulou Associate Professor, University of Monastir, Tunisia
- Valentina Tageo European Connected Health Alliance, Spain
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icost2019[at]easychair.org