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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Call for Special Tracks ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>(IEEE CBMS 2025)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>June 18-20, 2025,
</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><a href="https://2025.cbms-conference.org">https://2025.cbms-conference.org</a></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">systems, and one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">biomedical informatics.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">IEEE CBMS 2025 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. All tracks are expected</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work and must meet</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the same standards as main conference papers. All accepted papers will be included in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference proceedings. We expect all accepted tracks to adhere to the conference paper
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure a</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the CBMS</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2025 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Special Track requirements</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations, listed below:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">A </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>specific webpage with information about the special
track will be created</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> by CBMS</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to be</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers, submission
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">information (must be the same as CBMS 2025 regular track), special track organizers, special</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">track program committee members, any other relevant information. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>their track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">. They must add
their own Program committee members/reviewers to the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">CBMS 2025 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of interest</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend to CBMS</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>2025 in Madrid</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">. The organizer(s)
who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session that will</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">be assigned in the agenda to their track.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>to win as many submissions as possible</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">.
Please bear in mind that a special track with less </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the regular track.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Important Dates</u></b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Deadline for special track proposal:</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> November 8, 2024
(AoE)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Special track notification acceptance:</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> November 15,
2024</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Submission Guidelines</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Each proposal must include:</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Special track title</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per session)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">A brief biography of ST organizer(s)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">List of Special Track program committee members</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">A draft of Special Track “Call for papers” (important dates must be the same of the main</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference)</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to organize a special issue, if planned.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>The proposal must be sent to info[at]cbms-conference[dot]org</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>CBMS 2025 Special Track Chairs</u></b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Alba García Seco de Herrera</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sharib Ali</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Other Information</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">For more information, please contact info[at]cbms-conference[dot]org. </span></div>
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