[Sigmed-l] CFP: WORKSHOP ON HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DATAINTEGRATION FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB

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Subject: [kddm-sig] CFP: WORKSHOP ON HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES
DATAINTEGRATION FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB



CALL FOR PAPERS

 

WORKSHOP ON HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DATA INTEGRATION FOR THE SEMANTIC
WEB

 

held in conjunction with


THE 16th INTERNATIONAL WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE 

MAY 8-12, 2007

BANFF, ALBERTA, CANADA 

 

Biomedical researchers need to be able to access all relevant data in order
to make well-informed decisions. In order for this objective to be reached,
data about genes, proteins, pathways, diseases, and chemical compounds must
be effectively integrated and available to the scientist. Yet integration of
disparate biomedical data continues to be a challenge. Difficulties with
data integration stem from the fact that many biomedical research
disciplines require the integration of data sets that have been produced by
using different experimental/clinical protocols using heterogeneous data
formats, and that are at different levels of abstraction. Further challenges
include inconsistent use of terminology and identifiers, rapidly increasing
data volumes, and the growing diversity in data types and formats. 

 

In the hope of easing the effort of data integration many life science
researchers are exploring the use of the Semantic Web. The benefits promised
by the Semantic Web include aggregation of heterogeneous data using explicit
semantics, simplified annotation and sharing of findings, the expression of
rich and well-defined models for data aggregation and search, easier reuse
of data in unanticipated ways, and the application of logic to infer
additional insights.

 

To help realize the vision of the Semantic Web, the W3C has established the
Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). The
HCLSIG is chartered to develop and support the use of Semantic Web
technologies to improve collaboration, research and development, and
innovation adoption in the of health care and life science domains. As a
part of realizing this vision, we are organizing the first workshop on the
Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the
Semantic Web in conjunction with WWW 2007. 

 

The workshop will foster discussion and exchange of ideas relating to the
use of the Semantic Web for data integration in health care and life
sciences. 

 

Audience: 

The workshop encourages participation from both academia and industry with
an emphasis on the theoretical and practical aspects of applying Semantic
Web technologies to the challenges of health care and the life sciences. We
encourage participation from: 

. Universities, Research Institutes and Centers 
. Health Care, Clinical, and Life Science Consortia 
. Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Companies 
. IT Solution Vendors 
. Government Agencies 

We invite papers that focus on the application of the Semantic Web to health
care and/or life sciences. 


Topics of Interest: 

*   Integration of health care and/or life science data using Semantic Web
technologies. 

*   Semantics of health care and/or life science data 

*   Semantic Web applications for health care and/or life science data

*   Semantic Web Services 

*   Ontology-based data integration

*   RDF/OWL data querying languages 

*   Experience using triple stores

Submissions: 


Prospective authors are invited to submit research or demo papers in any of
the areas listed above. Research papers should be 8-10 pages in length and
demo papers 1-2 pages in length. Instructions for preparing the papers (in
Word and Latex format) are available at the following Web site:
http://www2007.org/submission.php. All papers must be written in English,
have the same style requirements as the main WWW2007 conference papers, and
must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system
(http://www.easychair.org/WWW2007Workshops/).
 
E-mail any one of workshop organizers for questions relating to the
submission of papers. 

 

Important Dates: 
Paper submission:                                March 1, 2007.
Notification of acceptance:                 March 21, 2007 

Final version of accepted papers:        March 31, 2007
Workshop date:                                   May 8, 2007 



Organizing Committee: 
Kei Cheung, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University 

(kei.cheung at yale.edu)

Huajun Chen, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University

(huajunsir at zju.edu.cn)

Yimin Wang,  <http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/> Institute AIFB,
<http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/> University of Karlsruhe

(ywa at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)

Joanne Luciano, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

(jluciano at genetics.med.harvard.edu)

Susie Stephens, Oracle

(susie.stephens at oracle.com)

Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System 

(vkashyap1 at partners.org)

 

For more information on the workshop, the following workshop link at the
conference Web page at http://neuroweb.med.yale.edu/hcls

 

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