(With apologies for cross-posting)
=== ICBO 2021 Call for Papers ===
The
International Conference on Biomedical and Biological Ontologies (ICBO)
is a premier annual conference series that brings together researchers,
students and professionals involved in the development and application
of ontologies, knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in all areas
of scientific research throughout the life and social sciences,
including biology, medicine, diseases, human health, genome biology,
human behaviour, environment, biomes, nutrition, food, plants,
agriculture and others.
ICBO 2021 (
https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/)
is currently being planned as a “blended” event, with a face to face
meeting in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, accompanied by live streaming and an
option for virtual participation.
=== Important Dates ===
Direct to Journal Submissions: 21 April 2021 *** in two weeks! ***
Main Research Submissions: 5 May 2021
Early Career Submissions: 26 May 2021
Posters and Flash Presentations Abstract Submissions: 16 June 2021
Conference: 15-18 September 2021
=== Call for Papers ===
The theme for the 2021 conference is Ontologies for Global Challenges. This includes:
- Ontologies relating to COVID-19
- Ontologies relating to the climate crisis and the UN’s sustainable development goals
- Ontologies overcoming barriers between basic research and translation
- Ontologies addressing the reproducibility crisis in scientific research
-
Ontology as a tool for open science to reduce segregation of research
results and improve access to the full body of knowledge across
scientific disciplines, especially as applied to urgent topics such as
the climate crisis
- Ontologies in practice across national boundaries, e.g. medical ontologies needing to serve international contexts
- Ontology in translation: ontologies supporting knowledge, data and applications in multiple languages
-
Overcoming the practical boundaries of ontologies in integrated
applications including data annotation, data integration, data science,
machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies
Submissions are particularly welcome that address aspects of this theme, but submissions outside of the theme are also welcome.
ICBO
2021 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously published nor
concurrently submitted) research papers in all areas of ontology design,
development, evaluation and use, ontology interoperability, knowledge
graphs, ontology-driven intelligent systems, ontologies for explainable
AI, and the application of ontologies to biological and biomedical
problems, across the full range of life sciences. In addition, we would
like to invite contributions showcasing methods for ontology-based
research, including statistical methods, tool support for ontologies and
semantic technologies including for the annotation of data,
visualisation, analysis, and related applications, and contributions
addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple
ontologies at the same time, including ontology alignment and matching.
Submissions are welcome from a broad range of approaches to ontology
building and use.
This year for the first time, in addition to
the normal conference submissions ICBO is inviting submissions in a
newly created direct to journal track in partnership with the Journal of
Biomedical Semantics (
https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/icboseries).
Papers submitted to the ICBO thematic series at the Journal of
Biomedical Semantics will be published immediately after acceptance and
presented in the annual conference following acceptance. For this track,
we suggest submission by the 21st April at the latest for full
consideration for ICBO2021. However, as journal reviewing and revision
times may vary, there is no guarantee that submissions received by the
suggested deadline will have completed the reviewing process in advance
of the conference, thus earlier submission is recommended.
The
conference is also soliciting contributions to several conference
tracks, for which the proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS as
usual. The deadline for the submission of conference main research track
papers (12 pages) is 5 May 2021, for early career submissions (short
papers - 6 pages) is 26 May 2021, and for abstracts for posters and
flash presentations (3 pages) the deadline for submission is 16 June
2021.
Contributions to the conference tracks should be submitted
in PDF format following the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines
found at
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/. The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available here:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. There is also an Overleaf Template available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjkContributions to the direct to journal track should follow the journal’s instructions available here:
https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscript https://icbo2021.inf.unibz.it/