Special sessions are very small and specialized events to be held during the conference as a set of oral and poster presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme or consisting of the works of some particular international project. The goal of special sessions (minimum 4 papers; maximum 9) is to provide a focused discussion on innovative topics. All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on digital support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). The proceedings are submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SYMPOSIA/SPECIAL SESSIONS LIST
DEMS 2027, Special Session on Design and Evaluation of Monitoring Systems
Chair(s): Eunji Lee
OMNIS-PARK 2027, Special Session on Objective MonitoriNg of Non-CognItive Symptoms in PARKinson's Disease Based on Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence
Chair(s): Fernanda Irrera
MOSAIC 2027, Special Session on Multimodal Omics and Healthcare Data Integration through Interoperable Computing
Chair(s): Lorenzo Martini and Gianluca Amprimo
CompBioFab 2027, Special Session on Computational Methods for Intelligent Biofabrication: Models, Data and Reproducible Benchmarks
Chair(s): Roberta Bardini, Laurence Calzone, Miriam Filippi and Diana Massai
WHC 2027, Special Session on Wearable HealthCare: Intelligent, Connected and Human-Centred Systems
Chair(s): Vítor Carvalho, Filomena Soares, José Machado and Demétrio Matos
Special Session on Design and Evaluation of Monitoring Systems -
DEMS
2027
Paper Submission:
December 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2027
Scope
This session will explore innovative approaches to designing monitoring systems that can enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Topics will include service design, user-centred design, integration of wearable and/or IoT technologies, synthetic data and sandboxes, and the role of artificial intelligence in optimizing monitoring and diagnostics. The session will also address challenges such as interoperability and usability in diverse healthcare settings. We welcome contributions that present case studies, novel frameworks, and design methodologies aimed at creating effective, scalable, and accessible monitoring solutions for various types of patients or general population.
Special Session on Objective MonitoriNg of Non-CognItive Symptoms in PARKinson's Disease Based on Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence -
OMNIS-PARK
2027
Paper Submission:
December 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2027
Scope
Wearable sensors can strengthen Parkinson's disease care by adding continuous, objective monitoring at home to the periodic subjective assessments performed during clinical checkups. Using wearable sensors, it is possible to track motion metrics such as postural and axial impairments, tremors, gait disorders, dysphagia outside outpatient environment, in more comfortable conditions for patients. Artificial intelligence algorithms analyse data from the sensors to accurately measure symptom severity in time and make a stratified classification, to complement clinical scores. By capturing subtle, day-to-day changes that periodic visits may miss, wearable systems ultimately aim to improve patients' quality of life and delay advanced complications, empowering physicians to make precise, data-driven management of the disease and adjust medication.
Special Session on Multimodal Omics and Healthcare Data Integration through Interoperable Computing -
MOSAIC
2027
Paper Submission:
December 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2027
Scope
The integration of heterogeneous biomedical data is becoming essential for understanding complex biological mechanisms and improving healthcare. Combining multi-omics, molecular and cellular data, medical imaging, electronic health records, physiological signals, and other complementary data modalities provides unprecedented opportunities to uncover biological insights, identify disease mechanisms, and support precision medicine. However, realizing this potential requires reproducible, interoperable, and reusable computational solutions capable of integrating diverse data sources into coherent analytical frameworks. This special session aims to bring together researchers developing innovative software, workflows, pipelines, and computational methods for multimodal data integration across bioinformatics and health informatics. Particular emphasis is placed on FAIR and interoperable software ecosystems, reproducible computational analyses, and applications that bridge fundamental biological research with clinical and translational medicine
Special Session on Computational Methods for Intelligent Biofabrication: Models, Data and Reproducible Benchmarks -
CompBioFab
2027
Paper Submission:
December 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2027
Scope
Biofabrication, the automated generation of functional constructs from cells, biomaterials and bioactive molecules, still relies on trial-and-error design, and the cost of wet-lab iterations makes exhaustive experimentation infeasible. Intelligent Biofabrication replaces this with model-based, predictive engineering: simulators of cellular behaviour, hybrid multi-scale models and digital twins, protocol optimisation, and data-driven approaches learning from accumulated evidence. Beyond construct quality, it makes accelerated discovery, shorter translational timelines, lower cost and smaller environmental footprint explicit design objectives. Interdisciplinary convergence is this session's organising principle. Progress comes when models are calibrated on data produced with them in mind, and experimental platforms are designed to be modelled. It is structured around an objective both sides need: shared benchmark problems, datasets and evaluation protocols.
Special Session on Wearable HealthCare: Intelligent, Connected and Human-Centred Systems -
WHC
2027
Paper Submission:
December 3, 2026
Authors Notification:
December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2027
Scope
Wearable healthcare technologies are rapidly evolving from standalone sensing devices into intelligent, connected and increasingly autonomous systems capable of supporting continuous health assessment, disease management, rehabilitation, prevention and personalised care.
Advances in wearable and body-worn sensors, embedded electronics, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), artificial intelligence and edge computing are enabling the acquisition and interpretation of physiological, behavioural and contextual information in real-world environments. These developments are creating new opportunities for digital biomarkers, remote patient monitoring, early detection of health deterioration, personalised interventions and clinical decision support.
The Special Session on Wearable HealthCare – WHC 2027 aims to bring together researchers, engineers, healthcare professionals, designers and industry practitioners working across the complete wearable healthcare technology pipeline — from sensing and device design to intelligent data processing, clinical validation and real-world deployment.
The session welcomes original research papers and abstracts, applied studies, technological demonstrations, validation studies, methodological contributions and review papers addressing the design, development, evaluation and translation of wearable healthcare technologies.