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[ICBO 2023] Call for Submissions
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGY - ICBO 2023
will be a hybrid meeting that includes both in-person and virtual participation.
ICBO 2023 will be held with the 16th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2023 - Joint events are planned.
August 28 - September 1, 2022 (Monday-Friday), Campus Darcy Ribeiro of University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
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
Biocuration
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)
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)
Publicity Chairs
Amanda Damasceno de Souza (FUMEC University, Brazil)
Edcleyton Bruno Fernandes da Silva (IFAL, Brazil)
Website Chair
Eduardo Ribeiro Felipe (Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil)
William Duncan (University of Florida, USA)
Contact information: icbo...@gmail.com