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<b>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>BOOM: 5th International Workshop on
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Biomedical infOrmatics with Optimization and Machine learning<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>in conjunction with the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Website:
</span><a href="https://www.ijcai-boom.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.ijcai-boom.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contact: </span>
<a href="mailto:ijcai1boom@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">ijcai1boom@gmail.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">On behalf of the organizing committee, we invite submissions of technical papers and abstracts for the 5<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on Biomedical Informatics
with Optimization and Machine learning (BOOM) in conjunction with the IJCAI 2020, Yokohama Japan. We welcome submissions with important new theories, methods, applications, and insights at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization,
and biomedical informatics.</span><span style="color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">The BOOM workshop aims at catalyzing synergies among biomedical informatics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optimization. This workshop is targeting
an audience of applied mathematicians, computer scientists, industrial engineers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, clinicians and healthcare researchers who are interested in exploring the emerging and fascinating interdisciplinary topics. It is
designed to foster the exchange of ideas between often-disparate groups that are unaware of each other's research, and to stimulate fruitful collaborations among different disciplines. In the past,
<b>BOOM has been successfully held </b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white">four times in conjunction with IJCAI (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">,
featured keynote speakers from academia, federal agencies, medical practice, and corporates, successfully attracted a broad audience, and published journal special issues for accepted long articles.
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission Deadline: April 5, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Notification Due: April 20, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Version Due: May 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission Guidelines</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">The BOOM Workshop solicits the following submissions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Full papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white"> describing original research work that have not been published before,
which will be published in a special issue of a partner journal (to be announced soon).<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full papers from past BOOM have been published in special issues of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2018; EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), 2017; and EURASIP Journal on
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (JBSB), 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOOM 2016: </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.springeropen.com/collections/bioml"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">https://www.springeropen.com/collections/bioml</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level3 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOOM 2017: </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.springeropen.com/collections/bioml2017"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">https://www.springeropen.com/collections/bioml2017</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4 level3 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOOM 2018: </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhse21/9/3?nav=tocList"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhse21/9/3?nav=tocList</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full-paper authors are also highly encouraged to submit <b>short abstracts
</b>simultaneously <b>through email to: </b></span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ijcai1boom@gmail.com"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ijcai1boom@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">for the consideration of workshop presentations.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Short abstracts</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> that either highlight significant works that have been published or accepted recently or report unpublished
research findings, which will be included in workshop online proceedings (unarchived). Please format short abstracts according to </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://ijcai-16.org/downloads/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-16.zip"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IJCAI
latex & word templates</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, with the page limit of 2 pages including references; and <b>submit through email to:
</b></span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ijcai1boom@gmail.com"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ijcai1boom@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">All submissions will be considered for oral and poster presentations at BOOM. The decision on presentation format will be based primarily on an assessment of breadth
of interest, and the construction of balanced and topically coherent sessions, while full papers will be given some priority for oral presentations.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">We invite submissions of technical papers and abstracts, with important new theories, methods, applications, and insights at the intersection of artificial intelligence,
machine learning, optimization, and biomedical informatics. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following inter-linked ones:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Category I: Machine Learning and Optimization Algorithms</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Developing and applying cutting-edge machine learning (e.g., deep learning) and optimization (e.g., large-scale optimization) techniques to tackle real-world medical and healthcare
problems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Addressing challenges and roadblocks in biomedical informatics with reference to the data-driven machine learning, such as imbalanced dataset, weakly-structured or unstructured
data, noisy and ambiguous labeling, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Designing novel, applicable numerical optimization algorithms for biomedical data, that is usually large-scale, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and noisy.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Re-visiting traditional machine learning topics such as clustering, classification, regression and dimension reduction, that find application values in newly-emerging biomedical
informatics problems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Other closely-related disciplines, such as image processing, data mining, new computing technologies and paradigms (e.g., cloud computing), control theory, and system engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Category II: Biomedical Informatics Applications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Computational Biology, including the advanced interpretation of critical biological findings, using databases and cutting-edge computational infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Clinical Informatics, including the scenarios of using computation and data for health care, spanning medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Public Health Informatics, including the studies of patients and populations to improve the public health system and to elucidate epidemiology.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">mHealth Applications, including the use of mobile apps and wearable sensors for health management and wellness promotion.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-top:3.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Cyber-Informatics Applications, including the use of social media data mining and natural language processing for clinical insight discovery and medical decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Invited Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Dr, Dursun Delen</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">, Regents Professor and Patterson
Foundation Chair, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Department of Management Science & Information Systems, Oklahoma State University, USA<span style="background:white;mso-highlight:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Dr. Kang Li</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics,
New Jersey Medical School, The State University of New Jersey, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Dr. Tongliang Liu</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">,
Lecturer in Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Dr. Gang Niu</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">, Research
Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Bing Yao, Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Zhangyang Wang, Texas A&M University<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Huimin Lu, Kyushu Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Yang Shen, Texas A&M University<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Jiayu Zhou, Michigan State University<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:#202020;margin-top:6.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Shuai Huang, University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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</span><a href="mailto:ijcai1boom@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">ijcai1boom@gmail.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;background:white">Bing Yao, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Assistant Professor</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;background:white">School of Industrial Engineering & Management</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F3864;background:white">Oklahoma State University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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