Associations, Federations and Special Interest Groups

Aware of the importance of international cooperation for the advancement of science, INSTICC works closely together with several other national and international associations and is proud to welcome them as partners in its activities or to arrange initiatives in cooperation with them.

While several forms of partnership are welcome, INSTICC places special value in "Technical Co-Sponsorships", by means of which both associations support each other from a scientific perspective for their mutual benefit. Additionally, in this case, members of partner organizations benefit from the same registration conditions as INSTICC members.

Current Institutional Partners:

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world’s largest international society of biomedical engineers. The organization’s 12,000 members reside in some 97 countries around the world. EMBS provides its members with access to the people, practices, information, ideas and opinions that are shaping one of the fastest growing fields in science.

https://www.ieee.org/communities/societies/index.html#EMB018

ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems

SIGMIS is one of the oldest ACM Special Interest Groups and for decades has been instrumental in defining and developing the field of management and information systems.

https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigmis

Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, a scientific, non-profit, association whose main goals are to serve the international scientific community by promoting, developing and disseminating knowledge in the areas of information systems and technologies, control and communication. It has organized hundreds of successful scientific conferences across the world since 2003, in collaboration with the main international institutions in its areas of interest.

http://www.insticc.org

Workflow Management Coalition

Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM. The WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards, educates the market on related issues, and is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process. The WfMC created Wf-XML and XPDL, the leading process definition language used today in over 80 known solutions to store and exchange process models. XPDL is a process design format for storing the visual diagram and all design time attributes.

http://www.wfmc.org

Object Management Group

The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies.

http://www.omg.org

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

FIPA is an IEEE Computer Society standards organization that promotes agent-based technology and the interoperability of its standards with other technologies.

http://www.fipa.org

ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing

ACM's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, SIGACCESS, promotes the interests of professionals working on research and development of computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. Our diverse membership is interested in the design, development, evaluation, and scientific investigations of technologies to support individuals with disabilities.

https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigaccess

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI aims to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence.

http://www.aaai.org

International Society for Computational Biology

The International Society for Computational Biology is a scholarly society dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. The ISCB communicates the significance of our science to the larger scientific community, governments, and the public at large. The ISCB serves a global membership by impacting government and scientific policies, providing high quality publications and meetings, and through distribution of valuable information about training, education, employment and relevant news from related fields. The BIOSTEC 2020 conference is affiliated with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The conference coordinators encourage all participants, who are not ISCB-members, to join the Society to take advantage of the discounted fee for ISCB members. To become a member of ISCB go to ISCB New Member Registration

http://www.iscb.org

Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering

Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering (FSMPME) is interdisciplinary, non-profit and professional society for physicists, engineers and physicians. The Society has been established in 1968 and the number of members is about 140. The members of the society are from educational and research institutes as well as from health care companies and hospitals. <br> <br> The purpose of the society is to arouse and maintain interest towards medical physics, medical engineering and biophysics in Finland. In addition, the society aims to strengthen the development of research, education and industry in these disciplines .

http://www.lfty.fi

Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering

The Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) was founded in 1970 and is, today, well established at the Swiss universities and companies. One of the goals of the Society is to build a network for education, research, manufacturing and politics within the background of biomedical engineering (BME).

http://www.sgbt.ch

German Society for Biomedical Engineering

The DGBMT - German Society for Biomedical Engineering in the VDE - is with more than 2,500 members the largest scientific and technical society in medical engineering in Germany. It was founded in 1961 in Frankfurt am Main.

http://www.vde.com

Societe Francaise de Genie Biologique et Medical

The French Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (SFGBM) brings together scientists, researchers and students in life sciences and health technologies in France.
It offers many benefits to its members: education, publications, conferences and actors in biomedical engineering.
The SFGBM provides support to students in biomedical engineering through grants and rewards as well as opportunities to publish in the affiliated IRBM journal (Innovation and Research in BioMedical engineering).

http://www.sfgbm.fr

ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

Who we are: academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students.

What we do:
- Promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing;
- Sponsor or co-sponsor high-quality, AI-related conferences;
- Sponsor recognized AI awards;
- Support important journals in the field;
- Provide scholarships to student members to attend conferences;
- Promote AI education and publications through various forums and the ACM digital library;

https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigai