SMDS 2007

Workshop on
Software and Systems for Medical Devices and Services 2007
(SMDS 2007)


to be held on December 3, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona (USA)
in conjunction with RTSS

News:

November 29, 2007: The advanced program is available here.

October 16, 2007: The submission deadline is extended to October 29, 2007.

September 15, 2007: The call for paper and submission site is up.

Call For Paper:

Software has become a necessity in almost every aspect of the daily lives of individuals and organizations, from self-contained applications to those embedded in various devices and services (mobile phones, prescription entry systems, medication dispensers, heart pacemakers, etc). A large proportion of these systems are mission/life-critical. Among them, medical services are one of most popular services in our daily life. According to a report from the National Academies Press, medication errors harm at 1.5 million people a year in United States. The extra costs for treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to 3.5 billion US dollars a year, not including lost wages and productivity.

The workshop on Software and Systems for Medical Devices and Services provides a forum for the presentation of research and development covering all aspects of medical services. Of particular interest are new concepts and development for coping with the challenges in the development of reliable software components and the integrity of heterogeneous medical services to improve safety and efficiency in medication services. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss new and on-going research in the development of software and systems for medication services and gather feedback from the real-time community at large. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Embedded, real-time, and networked systems for high confidence medication systems,
  • User-Centric technologies for medication software/system including human-machine interactions and robotic technologies for assisted living,
  • Distributed control and sensing systems for medication services,
  • Tools, Case studies and Architecture implementation solutions.
  • Validation and certification of medical-device software and systems Interoperability of medical-device software and systems, including MD PnP (Medial Device Plug-and-Play).
The workshop session will be held during the symposium which runs December 3-6 2007 in Tucson, Arizona. Accepted submissions will be included in a separate workshop proceedings which will be distributed to all RTSS 2007 conference participants.

Important Dates:

  • Deadline for submissions: Monday, October 15, 2007 Extended to Monday, October 29, 2007.
    (Please also check the RTSS web site for latest update.)
  • Notification of acceptance: Monday, October 29, 2007 Monday, November 7, 2007.
  • Deadline for submission of camera-ready copy: Monday, November 5, 2007Monday, November 19, 2007.

Paper Submission:

Submissions must not exceed six pages including references and figures -- papers exceeding six pages will not be reviewed. Papers should be formatted as single-space, double-column, in a 10 point font. All submissions should be in PostScript (PS) or PDF. Please do not submit papers in MS Word or other formats.

Please submit your paper at here.

Committee:

Program Chairs

  • Insup Lee - University of Pennsylvania
  • Oleg Sokolsky - University of Pennsylvania
  • Chi-Sheng (Daniel) Shih -- National Taiwan University

Program Committee

  • Yung-Pin Cheng - Natioanl Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
  • Duncan Clarke - Fremont Associates, USA
  • Kevin Cleary - Georgetown University, USA
  • Julian M. Goldman - Harvard University, USA
  • Hyoil Han - Drexel University, USA
  • Purush Iyer - North Caroloina State University, USA
  • Paul Jones - FDA, USA
  • Soon Ju Kang - Kyungpook National University, South Korea
  • Frankie King - NCO/NITRD, USA
  • Chang-Gun Lee - Seoul National University, South Korea
  • Jane Liu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Xue Liu - McGill University, Canada
  • Rahul Mangharam - CMU, USA
  • Nuria Oliver - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Harvey Rubin - Universit of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Majid Sarrafzedeh - UCLA, USA
  • Lui Sha - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Sylvia Spengler - NSF, USA
  • Jack Stankovic - University of Virginia, USA

Miscellaneous: