[Asis-l] Call for Papers: Special Issue of Intl. J. of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

[Andrews, James]

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine  (IJFIPM)

Call For papers

Special Issue on: "The Informatics of Meta-data, Questions, and Value Sets"


Special Issue Editors:

Rachel Richesson, PhD.; Department of Pediatrics; University of South Florida
Timothy B. Patrick, PhD; College of Health Sciences and School of Information Studies,   University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

James E. Andrews, Ph.D.; School of Library and Information Science, University of         South Florida


Healthcare research and practice are driven by data collection based on asking and answering questions. Data collection in clinical research studies are informed by protocols based on evidence, and patient assessments are required by clinical practice guidelines; both are driven by asking and answering relevant questions and assigning permissible values to data elements.  Given their critical role in healthcare research and practice, the curation of question and answer set repositories and IR issues related to those repositories are fundamental aspects of biomedical and healthcare informatics.  This special issue aims to address and attract state-of-the-art solutions and novel attempts in the informatics of meta-data, questions, and value sets.

Papers will be published in the International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine.

Subject Coverage

Papers to be included in this special issue should be focused on the following or closely-related topics: (N.B. the list is indicative rather than exhaustive):

*         Terminology and metadata standards for representing questions and answer sets

*         Ontologies for questions and answer sets

*         Meta-data registry standards for questions and answer sets

*         Question answering systems

*         Systems for generating questions and answer sets

*         Reuse, sharing and interoperability of questions and answer sets

*         IR for question and answer set repositories, including system design, human-computer interaction, and evaluation

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available at

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31

Submission of papers
Papers should be submitted through the IJFIPM submission system at

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=295

Authors should label their papers for the special issue in their cover letter.

Important Dates

Submission: 15 August 2010

Notification: 15 October 2010

Camera ready papers: 15 November 2010


James E. Andrews, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Interim Director
University of South Florida
School of Library and Information Science
4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040
Tampa, FL  33620
813-974-2108
Fax: 813-974-6840
jandrews at cas.usf.edu
http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/~jandrews/Index.html

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