BIODEVICES 2009 - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices

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	BIODEVICES is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication). SCOPE The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices is to bring together researchers and practitioners from electronics and mechanical engineering, interested in studying and using models, equipments and materials inspired from biological systems and/or addressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference. BIODEVICES encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or general survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers. Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session. Additional information can be found at http://www.biodevices.org. CONFERENCE TOPICS - Biomedical Instrumentation - Biomedical Equipment - Biomedical Sensors - Biomedical Metrology - Microelectronics - Health Monitoring Devices - Embedded Signal Processing - Low-Power Design - Electrical Bio-Impedance - Bio-Electromagnetism - Biorobotics - Biocomputing and Biochips - Implantable Electronics - Emerging Technologies - Biotelemetry - Wireless Systems - Biomaterials - Power Sources - MEMS - Nanotechnologies - Biomechanical Devices - Artificial Limbs - Technologies Evaluation - Bioprinting KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States Vimla L. Patel, Arizona State University, United States Pier Luigi Emiliani, Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy Maciej Ogorzalek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Egon L. van den Broek, University of Twente, The Netherlands PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a “full paper” (30 min. oral presentation) , a “short paper” (20 min. oral presentation) or a “poster”. Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Conference date: 14 - 17 January, 2009 Regular Paper Submission: July 21, 2008 (deadline expired) Authors Notification (regular papers): October 13, 2008 (deadline expired) Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 28, 2008 (deadline expired) Position Paper Submission: September 23, 2008 (deadline expired) Authors Notification (position papers): October 21, 2008 (deadline expired) Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: November 3, 2008 (deadline expired) SECRETARIAT BIODEVICES Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: + 44 203 014 5436 Email: secretariat@biodevices.org Web: http://www.biodevices.org VENUE Well known worldwide for its wine, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities. It was born and developed from the northern bank of the Douro river (i.e. the “river of Gold”) during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Teodiano Freire Bastos Filho, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil Hugo Gamboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Oliver Amft, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rodrigo Varejão Andreão, CEFETES, Brazil Luciano Boquete, Alcala University, Spain Susana Borromeo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Erik Bruun, Technical University of Canada, Denmark Ramón Ceres, IAIA-CSIC, Spain Fernando Cruz, College of Technology of Setubal/Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Eugen Culea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Fernando di Sciascio, Institute of Automatics National University of San Juan, Argentina Pedro Pablo Escobar, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Argentina Marcos Formica, Faculty of Bioengineering, Argentina Juan Carlos Garcia Garcia, Universidad de Alcala, Spain Roman Genov, University of Toronto, United States Gerd Hirzinger, DLR, Germany Jongin Hong, Imperial Collge London, United Kingdom Giacomo Indiveri, UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland Bozena Kaminska, Simon Fraser University , Canada Petter Kneppo, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Rui Lima, ESTiG, Braganca Polytechnic Inst. (IPB), Portugal Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva, Center For Information Technology Renato Archer, Brazil Ratko Magjarevic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia Dan Mandru, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Jose Luis Martinez, Grupo de Robotica y Cibernetica. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid., Spain Manuel Mazo, University of Alcala, Spain Paulo Mendes, University of Minho, Portugal Karol Miller, The University of Western Australia, Australia Joseph Mizrahi, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Raimes Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Alexandru Morega, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania Pedro Noritomi, Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer, Brazil Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Evangelos Papadopoulos, NTUA, Greece Laura Papaleo, University Of Genova, Italy Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano, Univ. of Calgary, Canada Adriana María Rios Rincón, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Joaquin Roca-Dorda, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain Wim Rutten, University of Twente, Netherlands Mario Sarcinelli-Filho, Federal University Of Espirito Santo , Brazil Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Wouter Serdijn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Amir M. Sodagar, University of Michigan, United States Milutin Stanacevic, Stony Brook University, United States Ioan G. Tarnovan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Romania Alexandre Terrier, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Enrique A. Vargas Cabral, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologia - Univ. Católica , Paraguay Mário Vaz, Inegi Lome, Feup, Portugal Chua-Chin Wang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Mona E. Zaghloul, The George Washington University, United States