Healthcare Evolution through AI and Digital twins - HEAD 2026

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We do hope this Call for Papers may be of your interest.
We do apologize if this CfP reaches you more than once.

Yours sincerely
HEAD Organizers

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Healthcare Evolution through AI and Digital twins - HEAD 2026

18 - 21 May, 2026 - Sydney, Australia

https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/

- in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2026) and in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

Submit your paper by using the link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199

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MISSION:
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All over the world, the number of investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for healthcare and wellbeing (eHealth) is rapidly increasing. GLOBE NEWSWIRE has predicted that the Global eHealth market is expected to reach $123.78 billion by 2030. This means that digital health is of considerable interest worldwide, as it has the potential to improve both the quality of services and users’ access to health information, while also saving time and reducing the workload and associated costs for health service providers in the long term.

In this context, an increasing interest is growing around eHealth and ICT technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, Cloud computing, Edge and Fog computing, and Internet of Things (IoT),

which are at the basis of revolutionising healthcare by bringing innovative network applications and services. In fact, modern healthcare applications are becoming increasingly dependent on heterogeneous infrastructures, including IoT and edge medical devices, as well as High-Performance Computing (HPC) backends, to support the execution of AI-driven models and patient-specific Digital Twins.

The HEAD workshop would explore the open challenges and current issues surrounding the application of these technologies, while bridging the gap between healthcare innovation and the hardware and software systems that support scalable and reliable computing. HEAD aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussion about how technologies such as HPC, distributed systems and performance optimisation can facilitate the deployment of reliable and scalable Digital Twins for healthcare. The workshop will highlight the role of computing infrastructures as key enablers of future digital medicine by linking algorithmic advances with architectural and systems-level innovations.


TOPICS:
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■ AI Algorithms and Learning Frameworks for Healthcare
■ Modeling and Simulation Methodologies for Healthcare
■ Programming Techniques and Architectures for Healthcare
■ Data Management, Analytics, and Knowledge Extraction
■ ICT Infrastructure and Tools for Healthcare Digital Twins
■ Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog Computing for Healthcare
■ Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Wearable Devices for Healthcare
■ Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of ICT for Healthcare
■ Accelerator-based architectures (GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs and DPUs) for Healthcare
■ Parallel and Distributed Training and Multi-GPU/Multi-Node Execution for Healthcare Applications
■ Energy-Efficient, Sustainable, and Optimization-Oriented Computing for AI in Healthcare


IMPORTANT DATES:
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• Submission deadline: February 01, 2026
• Notification of paper acceptance: February 28, 2026
• Submission of camera-ready papers: March 15, 2026
• Registration: March 15, 2026


PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Manuscripts should describe original work and should be formatted according to the IEEE conference proceedings format. 

Papers will be submitted through the CCGrid 2026 submission system.

Submit your paper here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Technical Program Committee. Reviews will be double-blind.

Accepted papers will be published in the CCGrid 2026 workshop proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.


BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A Best Paper Award certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality, and technical quality, as evaluated by the Program Committee.

Please visit https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/  for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email

Kind regards,
HEAD 2026 Organizers

My source: Dr. Giovanna Sannino

ERCIM News No. 140 Special theme: "Large-Scale Data Analytics"

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ERCIM NEWS #140

The January 2025 issue of ERCIM News (Number 140) is online with a special theme on Large-Scale Data Analytics. This issue features a Special Theme that highlights the diverse applications of large-scale data analytics across Europe. The advancements are achieved through close collaboration with European data spaces and open science platforms.

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This special theme was coordinated by our guest editors Andras Benczur (HUN-REN SZTAKI) and Dominik Ślęzak (University of Warsaw).

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Note PJ: Includes: 
Breaking the Silence: Brain-to-Speech Innovations. p.36
Data Visualisation for Big Data: Digital Epidemiology. p.39.

CWI Research Semester Programme. Truth is in the Eyes of the Machines Amsterdam, 8-9 May 2025.
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ERCIM News No. 139 Special Theme: "Software Security"

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A new ERCIM News issue (Number 139) is online with a special theme on Software Security. The articles in this special theme offer a comprehensive panorama of the current European research activities in software security and protection. They showcase a diverse range of research projects, highlighting the ongoing advancements and key developments of the field..

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Call for Papers: ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice

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ERCIM News No. 133 Special theme: "Data Infrastructures and Management"

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ERCIM News No. 133 has just been published. This special theme of this issue highlights the advancements made in the field of data infrastructures and management through exploration of novel research and technologies.  

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p.11 The Data Portal of the European Plate Observing System – A New Tool for the Solid-earth Sciences in Europe
by Vasco Avramo (EPOS-ERIC), Daniele Bailo (EPOS-ERIC, INGV) and Rossana Paciello (EPOS-ERIC, INGV)

p.24 CyberSec4Europe - Securing and Preserving Privacy Sharing Health Data
by Raquel Cortés Carreras, Juan Carlos Pérez Baún and
Miryam Villegas Jimenez (Atos Spain S.A.)

p.44 Survival Skills in the Digital Era: Helping Teachers to Develop Digital Competences
by Angela Fessl and Katharina Maitz (TU Graz), Monica Divitini (NTNU)

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Special Theme: "Explainable AI". Submissions are welcome! See call for contributions.

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ERCIM News No. 119 Special theme "Smart Things Everywhere"

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ERCIM News 119

ERCIM News No. 119 has just been published at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

Smart applications in several domains, the technological aspects and security and quality issues are the focus of the special theme of this issue.

Guest editors: Margarete Hälker-Küsters (Fraunhofer AISEC) and Erwin Schoitsch (AIT)

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The next issue sounds very promising and I look f/w to receiving news of this and possibly reflecting on the content using Hodges' model. The 'Research and Innovation' section is always interesting as in this issue, even while the focus of #119 is as per the title. In addition on page 33:

"Case Case 2 – Smart Health Care: This use case employs the SEMIoTICS technologies to develop an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution aimed at sustained independence and preserved quality of life for elders with mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s dis-ease, with the overall goal of delaying institutionalisation: supporting both “aging in place” (individuals remain in the home of choice as long as possible) and “community care” (long-term care for people who are mentally ill, elderly, or disabled provided within the community rather than in hospitals or institutions)".

"Cloud Reservoirs in Finite Glitch Space" by Jacob Hashimoto

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

	Jacob Hashimoto Cloud Reservoirs in Finite Glitch Space (Reservoir III), 2018 Woodblock monoprint, 65 x 60 inches

Jacob Hashimoto

Cloud Reservoirs in Finite Glitch Space (Reservoir III), 2018.
Woodblock monoprint, 65 x 60 inches


My source: The New York Review of Books, August 15 - September 25, 2019, Volume LXVI, Number 13, p.19.

Looking at Clouds from Two Domains ...

INDIVIDUAL

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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POPULATION

"Humanitarian Applications"	2. "Estonia's entire government IT systems have been uploaded to the cloud and stored on international servers, so the country could be relocated at a moment's notice if needed."
"Good things can come from innovative tech"	1. "The Estonian government is nervous. ... British and American troops are located on the border, as part of a "trip-wire strategy" to get NATO mobilised. If the worst happens, the Estonian government has a rather ingenious contingency plan. ... A government in exile could relocate, boot up the cloud systems and serve the 1.3 million citizens as before."

Cloud for Business, Raconteur, Estonian Defence Plan. 12/03/17 #0439, p.5.

http://innar.com/personal_copy_Estonian_Government_Cloud_Kotka_Liiv_2015.PDF

ERCIM News No. 107 Special theme: "Machine Learning"

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ERCIM News No. 107 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en107

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- A Special Theme presenting a selection of articles about current trends and new paradigms in Machine Learning, coordinated by the guest editors Sander Bohte (CWI ) and Hung Son Nguyen (University of Warsaw).

- A Research and Society section dedicated to Open Access - Open Science, coordinated by Laurent Romary (Inria).

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ERCIM News No. 106 Special theme: Cybersecurity

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ERCIM News No. 106 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en106

This issue features:

- a Special Theme presenting a variety of research results that show the richness and range of Cybersecurity issues and their application domains. This special theme has been coordinated by the guest editors Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) and Edgar Weippl (SBA Research).

ERCIM News 106

- a Keynote by Afonso Ferreira and Paul Timmers (DG CONNECT, European Commission): "Cybersecurity: A Key Pillar of the European Digital Single Market"

- an article "International Informatics" written by Gerard Alberts (University of Amsterdam) on the Occasion of Aad van Wijngaarden’s 100th Birthday

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ERCIM News No. 83 Special Theme: "Cloud Computing"

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ERCIM News No. 83 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

Special Theme:
"Cloud Computing"
- coordinated by: Frédéric Desprez, Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann and Ramin Yahyapour
- featuring the keynote "Cloud Computing: The Next Big Thing?" by Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, Keith Jeffery, Maria Tsakali and Lutz Schubert.

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Of note in ERCIM #83 :

An Infrastructure for Clinical Trials for Cancer – ACGT Project Successfully Terminated; by Jessica Michel Assoumou and Manolis Tsiknakis


Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making through a Cloud Infrastructure; by Nikos Karacapilidis, Stefan Rüping and Isabel Drost

Finally, the first issue of 2011 #84 sounds a great prospect!