Call for submission - ICBO 2023 in Brazil

[Yu Asiyah Lin]

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Apologies for cross-posting.

August 28 - September 1, 2023 (Monday-Friday), Campus Darcy Ribeiro of University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil.

ICBO 2023 will be a hybrid meeting that includes both in-person and virtual participation for authors' presentations.

ICBO 2023 will be held with the 16th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2023 - Joint events are planned.

 

Conference website: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2023/

 

The focus of our 2023 conference is "The role of Ontologies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning".

 

Important dates:

• Conference Dates: August 28th to September 1st (Monday-Friday)

• • Workshops/tutorials: August 28-30, 2023 (until noon of day 30)
  • Main conference: August 30 (afternoon) - September 01, 2023

• Journal Track submission deadline: March 31st, 2023
• Workshops and Tutorials submission deadline: April 3, 2023. Notification May 3, 2023
• Software demo submission deadline: June 15, 2023. Notification: June 29, 2023
• ICBO Conference Papers and Abstracts deadline: May 31, 2023. Notification June 29, 2023

Submission Format:

• All contributions accepted will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series.
• Submissions should be formatted according to the CEUR-ART template, single column (available from the conference website).
• Submissions to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics should follow the journal's guidelines.
• CFP details: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2023/call-for-submissions/

Journal of Biomedical Semantics ICBO Thematic Series Option

• In partnership with the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, manuscripts submitted to the ICBO Thematic Series of this journal will be published immediately after acceptance and presented in the main ICBO conference following acceptance.
• For this track, we suggest submission by March 31st at the latest for full consideration for the conference.
• Journal track manuscripts are submitted directly to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics following the journal submission guidelines.
• Authors must select the ICBO thematic series during the submission process.

Call for Workshops, Tutorials, and Demos

• Workshops and Tutorials submission deadline: April 3, 2023. Notification May 3rd, 2023.
• Software demo submission deadline: June 15, 2023. Notification: June 29, 2023.
• Submission link: http://bit.ly/3JXYPi5 - submission will use the Google Form

Call for ICBO Conference Papers and Abstracts

• Full-length papers (6-10 pages)
• Short papers up to 5 pages.
• Poster Abstracts: 1 page extended abstract format, with limited references.
• Note: Posters session will be just in-person.
• Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2023

ICBO 2023 theme: The role of Ontologies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Areas of particular interest to ICBO 2023 include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Big data, data science, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, Digital twins
• Graph database, knowledge graphs
• Natural Language Processing (NLP), computational linguistics, and linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
• Data integration, interoperability
• Semantic Web: Modeling and Information retrieval ontology-based, Linked open data (LOD) applications
• Knowledge organization, Conceptual Modeling
• Domain ontologies (Health, Smart Cities, Government, Education, and others)

• • Genetics, phenotypes, and diseases
  • COVID-19
  • Social determinants of health (SDOH)
  • Electronic health records
  • Industrial applications
  • Plant and agricultural applications
  • Climate change
  • Ontology for e-science, life sciences, e-business, multimedia, and cultural heritage

• Ontology Engineering: Methodologies, techniques and practices, composition, modularity, evaluation and validation, patterns and anti-patterns
• Ontology governance
• Ontologies and the FAIR data principles
• Ontology tools: visualization, building, reasoning, evaluation, and discovery of knowledge

Important Note:

The conference will be held in Brasilia (Brazil) but we are open to accept online presentations in case the participants can't attend the conference.

 

Co-organizers:

• General Chair

• • Fernanda Farinelli (University of Brasília, Brazil)
  • Dalton Lopes Martins (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

• Program Committee Chairs

• • Luis M. Machado (Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra)
  • Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)

• Workshops/tutorial Chairs

• • Asiyah Lin (National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA)
  • Andrey Soares (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA)

• Journal of Biomedical Semantics ICBO Thematic Series Option

• • Stefan Schulz (Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria)
  • Amanda Damasceno de Souza (FUMEC University, Brazil)

 

Contact information: icbo...@gmail.com