Scope
Several research and development projects related to agents in health care are currently emerging. This workshop will be an opportunity to present the results of these projects and to bring together not only people interested in exploring the Agents characteristics in health-care but also Health Professionals. This workshop aims to bring to light new insights into Health-care agent based systems research and to provide a discussion forum for Agents technology applied to Health-care bringing together both IT researchers and Health professionals.

List of topics of interest
● Patient empowerment through personalised Agent based systems
● Embedding Clinical Guidelines in Multi-agent Systems
● Embedding Health Record Standards in Multi-agent Systems (e.g. HL7, Dicom, OpenEHR)
● Multi-agent Systems for HIS integration - Improving data availability
○ Search, Interface and Retrieve
● Security in Multi-agents Systems applied to Health-Care
● Agents task delegation Legal issues in Health-Care
● Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care
○ Medical agent-based decision support systems
○ Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis
● Modelling and Designing Methodologies for Agent based Health-Care systems.
● Surveys and Reviews providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care

Paper Submission and Formatting Guidelines
We invite prospective authors to submit their contributions, not yet published, reporting on either work under development or concluded projects about theoretical aspects or practical applications related to the topics of the workshop. Contributions can be submitted in one of the three formats of the Conference, namely as full paper (6 pages), as short paper (4 pages), or as poster (2 pages).
The paper preparation must follow the formatting guidelines of the Conference, and should be written either in Portuguese, in Spanish, or in English. All contributions must be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair platform (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agentscare2012). At least three members from the workshop’s Programme Committee will assess and comment on each submission, following a “blind-review” process. Therefore, authors should take special care to delete their names and affiliation from the paper during the reviewing phase, as well as obfuscate any other references in the text that can possibly identify them.

Publication
Regardless of the type of submission, the Workshop’s Programme Committee may suggest papers to be accepted as full-paper (6 pages), short-paper (4 pages) or poster (2 pages). Full papers will be included in the Conference’s main Proceedings, both on paper and on CD support, whereas short papers will be included only in the proceedings on CD support. The papers selected for presentation during the Workshop, to be include in the Proceedings, are subject to the condition that at least one of the co-authors performs a full-registration at the conference and ensures its oral presentation.
Historically, all editions of the CISTI Conference have been indexed by Thomson’s ISI. This 7th edition is additionally a Conference with the formal support of IEEE. Therefore, the published papers will be made available on the Xplore digital library and will also be indexed by Inspec and Scopus. They will also be made available and indexed by EBSCO.

Important Dates
● Paper submission: February 17 24, March 10, 2012
● Paper acceptance/rejection notification: March 30, 2012
● Camera-ready version and registration due: April 13, 2012

Organizing Committee
● Ricardo João Cruz Correia - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Faculty of Medicine of Univ. Porto
● Pedro Manuel Vieira Marques - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Faculty of Medicine of Univ. Porto
● Sergi Robles - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Department of Information and Communications Engineering of Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona
● Pedro Pereira Rodrigues - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Faculty of Medicine of Univ. Porto
● John McGrory - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Dublin Institute of Technology