Selected papers will be invited for publication in a Special Issue in one of the following journals (depending on the topic of the paper).
Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383), is an international scientific open access journal, providing a platform for advances in health care/clinical practices, the study of direct observation of patients and general medical research. This multi-disciplinary journal is aimed at a wide audience of medical researchers and healthcare professionals. The journal is indexed by the SCIE, PubMed, and many other databases. The Impact Factor of JCM is 3.303 (2019), ranking 36/165 (Q1) under the category "Medicine, General & Internal". More information, please see hereProcesses (ISSN 2227-9717; CODEN: PROCCO; IF:2.753) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, and related process/systems engineering research fields. The journal publishes regular research papers, communications, letters, short notes and reviews. Our aim is to encourage researchers to publish their experimental, theoretical and computational results in as much detail as necessary. There is no restriction on paper length or number of figures and tables. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 13.3 days after submission; the process from acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.9 days. Lastly, it is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Inspec (IET). Covered in Scopus from Vol. 5 (2017). More information, please see here
We are living in challenging, yet sensational and inspiring
times. No doubt the year ahead is going to change the view
we have on our lives and that on our environment.
More than ever medical and biological systems stay at the
core of our societal and economical challenges. No longer
these can progress without the interdisciplinarity among
them, and progress itself cannot be enabled without the
inter-modularity with engineering and computing. Healthcare
systems, biological systems, pharmaceutical systems and
everything stemming from these are welcomed topics to our
11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems
(BMS2021), organized in Ghent, Belgium, through 19-22
September 2021.
BMS2021 features three main themes to provide latest
results in context of personalized medicine and personalized
medication production processes:
- drug delivery systems: includes modelling, control,
analysis and pharmacological studies, medical
devices, clinical trial results;
- combined cancer therapy: includes nanomedicine,
radiation, immunology, stem cells, modelling and
control, medical devices and robotics, clinical trial
results;
- pharmaceutical processes: includes process
modelling, process control, bio-chemical process
optimization, instrumentation.
Experimental, clinical and feasibility studies are particularly
welcome contributions. The symposium covers all aspects of
biomedicine, physiology, biology, pharmaceutical and
epidemiological problems interconnected through
multidisciplinarity with systems engineering.
The technical program will comprise several types of
presentations in regular and invited sessions, tutorial
sessions, and special sessions along with workshops and
exhibits. An important goal of the conference is to emphasize
the enabling role of engineering and control in the emerging
Pharma 4.0 context and listen to the challenges from both
industry and academia.
The symposium will address the latest progress and
challenges posed in all themes of technical committees:
- model formulation, experiment design, identification and
validation, biosignal analysis and interpretation,
- advances in sensing and signal processing,
- tracer kinetic modelling from imaging systems,
- biomedical system modelling, simulation and
visualization,
- decision support systems and feedback control
- robotics, devices and sensors,
- biological systems and controls, etc.
- pharmaceutical processes,
- on demand product manufacturing and quality control,
- artificial intelligence for decision support systems,
- bionic engineering and biomaterials.
Application areas may include, but not limited to:
- cellular, metabolic, cardiovascular, neurosystems,
- healthcare management and delivery, disease control,
critical care,
- pharmacokinetics and drug delivery,
- decision support systems for the control of physiological
and clinical variables,
- biomedical imaging systems,
- intensive and chronic therapy,
- medical information systems,
- surgical robotics and medical nano-robotics,
- control of voluntary movements, respiration, locomotion,
- rehabilitation engineering including rehabilitation
robotics,
- kinetic modelling and control of biological systems,
artificial organs and biomechanical systems,
- quantification of physiological parameters for diagnosis
assessment,
- production optimization in pharmaceutical industry
- pharmaceutical product on demand, design,
manufacturing and quality assessment,
- targeted molecular therapies,
- artificial intelligence support in diagnosis and decision
making systems.
Benchmark Challenge Competition
The symposium will feature a benchmark challenge
addressed to all doctoral students who plan to attend the
event. A competition will be organized and featured in a
special session.
Important dates:
  | submission opens (regular papers, invited papers): |   | October 1, 2020 |
  | submission opens for OIT (open invited track) proposals: |   | October 1, 2020 |
  | OIT proposal deadline: |   | January 6, 2021 |
  | registration site opens: |   | March 31, 2021 |
  | draft paper submission deadline: |   | May 30, 2021 |
  | final paper submission deadline: |   | July 30, 2021 |
More information about the IFAC activities can be found here