Appel: 7th International Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2014)

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:19:49 +0200
From: "Adrian Paschke" <paschke at inf.fu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <018701cfc362$01b98320$052c8960$@inf.fu-berlin.de>
X-url: http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2014

Papers submission on  September 15th, 2014 Call for Papers

7th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for
the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2014) Berlin, Germany Dec. 9-10th, 2014

http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/berlin2014

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Overview

Since 2008, the SWAT4LS Workshop has provided a platform for the
presentation and discussion of the benefits and limits of applying
web-based information systems and semantic technologies in the domains
of health care and life sciences. SWAT4LS has been held in Edinburgh
(2008), Amsterdam (2009), Berlin (2010), London (2011), Paris (2012) and
Edinburgh (2013).

The next edition of SWAT4LS will be held in Berlin, Germany, on December
9 - 11, 2014. It will be articulated in a tutorials day (9th), a main
workshop day (10th) and an hackathon day (11th).

We are confident that the next edition of SWAT4LS will provide the same
open and stimulating environment that has previously brought together
researchers, developers, and users, from various fields including
eHealth, biomedical and clinical informatics, radiation oncology,
systems biology, computational biology, drug discovery, bioinformatics
and biocomputing, to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences
with Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies in health care and the
life sciences.

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Rationale 

The Web is a key medium for information publishing, and Web-based
information systems play a key role in biomedical information exchange
and data integration. The Semantic Web in particular provides a set of
interoperable standards and technologies that support knowledge
representation, ontology development, machine reasoning, data mining,
machine learning, distributed information resources, and collaborative
research environments.

The variety and complexity of biomedical information requires these kind
of technologies and altogether, the adoption of the Web-based semantic
technologies in health care and the life sciences is having an impact on
publishing, as well as biological and clinical research.

This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss the benefits
and limits of adoption of these technologies. It will showcase
experiences, information resources, tool development and
applications. It will bring together researchers, both developers and
users, from biology, bioinformatics, computer science, and the clinic to
discuss goals, current limits and use cases for Semantic Web
technologies.

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Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and
  clinical trial data

- Connecting clinical practice and clinical research

- Rapid Learning infrastructures for health care

- Enabling translational medicine and personalized medicine

- Interactive Knowledge Browsing and Semantic Web approaches to Big Metadata

- Harnessing biomedical ontologies and terminologies with medical
  standards for information exchange

- Standards such as HL7, BRIDG, CDISC, DICOM, EN13606, ISO 18308,
  openEHR, together with medical terminologies and ontologies such as
  SNOMED, NCIt, LOINC, MedDRA, ICD, CTCAE, ATC for international
  Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and transmural care

- Clinical Decision Support Systems

- Methods for reusing patient data in clinical research

- Patient recruitment, eligibility studies, and OWL/RDF models of
  eligibility criteria

- Semantic Web standards and new proposals (e.g.: RuleML, RDF, OWL,
  SKOS, SPIN, Microformats)

- Tools for ontology mapping, editing, annotation, versioning and
  provenance management

- APIs and Tools for access to (distributed) knowledge bases
  (e.g.multi-agents, rest apis, semantic web services, OMG API4KB)

- Semantic Scientific Workflows and eScience processes

- RDF stores, NoSQL, reasoners, query and visualization systems

- Knowledge representation for biomedical knowledge bases

- Applications of query federation for distributed knowledge, data
  sharing, and data discovery

- Access control and data security for medical data

- Tools for semantics-enabled Web publication

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Type of contributions

The following possible contributions are sought:

- Tutorials

- Research papers

- Position papers

- Posters

- Software demos

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Proceedings

Proceedings of SWAT4LS 2014 will be published in CEUR Workshop
proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/).

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Special issue

Authors of accepted contributions to the upcoming edition of SWAT4LS
will be invited to submit to a special issue of the BMC Journal of
Biomedical Semantics (tbc).

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Deadlines

Papers submission (abstracts):            September 7th, 2014
Papers submission deadline (full text):   September 15th, 2014
Posters and demos submission deadline:    September 30th, 2014
Communication of acceptance:              October 27th, 2014 
Camera ready paper:                       November 18, 2014
Tutorials                                 Tue, December 9, 2014    
Workshop                                  Wed, December 10, 2014
Hackathon                                 Thu, December 11, 2014*

 

(*) the hackathon may be extended to one extra optional day, pending
confirmation of venues.

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Instructions:

All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf format.

Submissions for papers should report original research, and should be
between 8 and 15 pages.

Submissions for position papers should report qualified opinions,
recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 3 and 6 pages.

Submissions for posters should be between 2 and 4 pages.

Submissions for software demo proposals should also be between 2 and 4
pages.

Please upload all submissions as PDF files based on the LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

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Submission

All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system.

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2014

To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed
by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee.

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Sponsorship

We offer a variety of sponsorship options. Interested parties are
invited to contact the organizers at info at swat4ls.org .