CSHALS2014 - Call for Submissions

[Sivaram Arabandi, MD]

[on behalf of CSHALS 2014 organizing committee]

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Call for Submissions

Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences

Boston, USA – February 26 - 28, 2014

http://www.iscb.org/cshals2014 

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CSHALS is accepting full paper and poster submissions in the topic areas listed below. 

NEW for 2014

following peer review, accepted papers will be published online in a volume of the 

CEUR Workshop Proceedings series http://ceur-ws.org

CSHALS 2014 TOPIC AREAS:

• Linked Data - generation, representation, and management of data using the W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Linked Data principles.
• Data Modeling - Ontologies, Taxonomies - practical application of knowledge engineering principles and techniques to data modeling.
• Text Analysis, NLP, Question Answering - use of semantic technologies for processing natural language.
• Cloud, Parallel, and Distributed Computing - use of semantic technologies for representation and management of distributed computational resources and workflows.
• Healthcare eScience - Translational Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, personal health records (PHR) - patient-centric use of semantic web technologies to handle the integration of clinical and biomolecular data.
• Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics - semantic applications for data analysis, inference, and decision-making.
• Human Computer Interfaces - development of interfaces or design criteria that involve humans in the process of knowledge creation.
• Clinical Applications - Use of semantic web technology or architectures, including the orchestration of webApp ecosystems, as part of medical care delivery.
• Molecular Applications - Deployments of semantic web technology in biomolecular and biochemical domains.
• Applications to Emerging Health Disciplines - Use of the semantic web’s integrative and distributed nature to support emergence of novel applications in health care.

Submissions http://www.iscb.org/cshals2014-submissions

CSHALS is invites the following submissions to the conference:

• Research papers: up to 12 pages that report on original research, and / or novel methodology that have led to significant outcomes with potential for lasting impact. Papers should demonstrate theoretical soundness of the research and/or strong evaluation.
• Application papers: up to 6 pages that report on original research with successful application demonstrated by an improvement over existing methods. Papers may include systems level approaches using established methodology in a novel application domain.
• Posters:  Abstracts of 500 words reporting on early research results focusing on the design and application of semantic technologies in life science scenarios. Priority will be given to submissions offering a functional demo that can be shown at the conference.

Papers are to be prepared using Springer's LNCS templates and submitted via EasyChair.

Important dates

KEY DATES
September 30, 2013	Call for Paper and Poster Presentations Opens
December 6, 2013	Call for Paper Presentations Closes
January 10, 2013	Call for Poster Closes
January 14, 2014	Paper Presentation Acceptance Notification
January 24, 2014	Poster Presentation Acceptance Notification
January 31, 2014	Registration Deadline: Accepted Presenters Required

         

Conference Chairs:

• Jonas S. Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
• Ted Slater, OpenBEL Consortium, Cambridge, United States
  
  

Organizing Committee:

• Jonas S. Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
• Chris Baker, University of New Brunswick, St. John, Canada
• Mike Bevil, Merck & Co. West Point, United States
• Mark Wilkinson, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
• Helena Deus (Lena), Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, United States
• Ted Slater, Broad Reach Strategic Advising LLC, United States
  
  

Logistical Organizers:

• Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Officer, La Jolla, United States
• Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
• Stacy Slagor, ISCB Director of Corporate Relations and Development, La Jolla, United States

Program Committee Chair:

• Chris Baker, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Program Committee:

• Jonas Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
  
• Sivaram Arabandi, Ontopro LLC, United States
• Colin Batchelor, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
• Judy Blake, The Jackson Laboratory, United States
• Olivier Bodenreider, US National Library of Medicine, United States
• Jerven Bolleman, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
• Albert Burger, MRC Human Genetics Unit, United Kingdom
• Greg Butler, Concordia University, Canada
• Werner Ceusters, SUNY at Buffalo, United States
• Paolo Ciccarese, Harvard University, United States
• Adrien Coulet, University of Lorraine, France
• Helena Deus, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, United States
• Michel Dumontier, Stanford University, United States
• Melissa Haendel, Oregon Health and Science University, United States
• Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Michael Krauthammer, Yale University Medical School, United States
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
• Phillip Lord, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
• Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Alexandre Riazanov, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada
• Fabio Rinaldi, IFI, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Mark Schreiber, Novartis NIBR, United States
• Ted Slater, Broad Reach Strategic Advising LLC, United States
• Andrea Splendiani, IntelliLeaf/DERI, United Kingdom
• Robert Stevens, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Karin Verspoor, National ICT Australia and The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Mark Wilkinson, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain