[Tccc] [CFP] Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems (DC-­MMDS)

Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian kvenatwpi.edu
Tue Feb 26 08:30:44 EST 2013



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CALL FOR PAPERS  

Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems (DC-MMDS)

In Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2013
New Orleans, LA, USA
June 24-27, 2013

URL: http://dc-mmds.cs.wpi.edu/
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SCOPE:

A decade ago, medical devices were largely simple standalone entities.
Today, wireless networking capabilities, sophisticated data processing, and
new sensors and actuators are increasingly being incorporated into mobile
medical devices that promise to improve a clinicians ability to diagnose
and treat a range of acute and chronic medical conditions.

This new generation of mobile medical device systems (MDDS) faces a variety
of challenges. Such devices are often implanted, ingested, or worn and
deployed as a part of pervasive health monitoring system. Some interact
directly with a patients biological systems in order to provide
coordinated, closed-loop care. In order for these mobile medical
cyber-physical systems to be successful, one needs to develop targeted
platforms and technologies. This is particularly challenging because of the
devices used in MMDS have to be small and unobtrusive. This makes them
severely resource constrained in nature. Architectures developed for the
desktop and hand-held computing world ill suited for such applications.
Further, as people who have limited understanding of the underlying
technologies will use such devices, the usability of such systems, from
user-interface to sustainability to interoperability with other devices
to configuration, is very important.

These challenges have been recognized, in the abstract, in the community
for some time. However, there has not been a dedicated forum for discussing
ideas on building mobile medical devices. This proposed workshop will bring
together researchers from academia and industry to address challenges
facing the design and implementation of mobile medical device platforms.

TOPICS:

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
 Novel hardware platforms and architectures for MMDS
 Novel sensing systems for MMDS
 Actuation and drug delivery systems for MMDS
 Efficient automatic control systems for MMDS
 Novel data and signal processing for MMDS
 Enabling device interoperability for MMDS
 Energy harvesting and sustainability for MMDS
 Formal methods for MMDS
 Trust, security and privacy technologies of MMDS
 Human factors and usability for MMDS
 Regulatory issues for MMDS

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers must be no longer than 5 pages and in font size no smaller than 10
points. Additional paper formatting instructions can be found on the
conference web-site: http://www.ieee-secon.org.

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE SECON13
Conference Proceedings and archived in IEEE Xplore.

ORGANIZERS:

Chairs
Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jacob Sorber, Clemson University

TPC Members
Ayan Banerjee, Arizona State University
Denis Foo Kune, University of Michigan
Matt Green, Johns Hopkins University
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, UCLA
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University
Roozbeh Jafari, UT-Dallas
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Andres Molina-Markham, Dartmouth College
Ben Ransford, University of Massachussets, Amherst
Craig Shue, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2013
Notification Deadline: April 22, 2013
Camera-Ready Deadline: May 1, 2013
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