Call for Papers – Doctoral Symposium @ IREHI 2018
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The Doctoral Symposium collocated with IEEE International Rural and Elderly Health Informatics Conference (IREHI 2017) will take place on December 4th, 2018 at University of Cotonou/Benin (West-Africa). The proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium will be published by IEEE Xplore.
Goal
The IREHI 2017 Doctoral Symposium aims at building a worldwide community of doctoral students working on health informatics, especially in rural and elderly health informatics. It will provide the opportunity to present and discuss their research in an international atmosphere and will promote interactions among students and researchers from academia and industry.
Selected Ph.D. students from developed and developing countries working in all fields of Health informatics will present their work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts from academia and industry. Experienced researchers in health informatics will provide advice to Ph.D. students on various aspects of completing a Ph.D. and carrying out a successful research.
Who should participate
Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle and at the end of their Ph.D.) who are working on a research area or a thesis topic relevant to Health Informatics are encouraged to participate in the Doctoral Symposium.
Submission Instructions
We are seeking the following types of contributions:
• Short paper (up to 4 pages for technical contents and 1 page for references) related to their ongoing research (authored by a student only, include advisor in the acknowledgments); and
• Demos about results obtained in the scope of their ongoing research.
Your research paper should contain the following items: 1) a title for your work; 2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) the main description of your research work that covers the technical problem to be solved and related works; 4) the proposed approach with research methodology and work accomplished till date; and 5) Expected contributions of your dissertation research and time plan. All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed in a single-blind manner.
The documents should be submitted through the conference submission system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irehi18

Organization and contact:
• Dr. Thierry Edoh (Technical University of Munch -Germany)/Oscar.edoh@gmail.com (private),edoh@in.tum.de (university)