INFORMS News: 2011 INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics

The Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Health Applications sections of INFORMS are sponsoring a workshop to be held Nov. 12 in conjunction with the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C. The theme of the workshop centers on health informatics. The INFORMS DM-HI 2011 Organizing Committee invites individuals interested in making a workshop presentation to submit an abstract, not exceeding 200 words, for review. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to give a presentation at the workshop and submit a short paper, not exceeding six pages, for the Workshop Proceedings, to be published on a CD.

July 15 is the deadline for abstracts for the workshop. For a complete list of topic areas, instructions on how to submit your paper and important dates, go to http://meetings2.informs.org/charlotte2011/dmhi.html. For inquiries, please contact Program Co-Chairs Peter Qian (peterq@stat.wisc.edu), Yilu Zhou (yzhou@gwu.edu) or Cynthia Rudin, (rudin@mit.edu).