CFP: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOMEDICAL DATA INTEGRATION AND DISCOVERY (BMDID 2016)

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THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOMEDICAL DATA INTEGRATION AND DISCOVERY (BMDID 2016)
ISWC2016 Workshop
October 17-21,2016 Kobe, Japan
https://bmdid2016.github.io/

Introduction
Addressing healthcare needs of patients around the world requires a diverse approach and collaborative effort as awareness, costs and benefits are quite ambiguous. Driving an awareness to link what treatments drive and optimize patient health and safety is paramount and difficult - unless you are approaching it semantically. Many of the social tools used today are global such that data collection through social media is quite popular. The linking of such broad information to gather and unveil the ambiguity of costs and benefits is the first step towards awareness - the first step. The next step is the hard and costly part of the problem - the design of a medicinal treatment that will positively impact the patients and their families lives in a cost effective manner. We are fortunate to live in 2016 - where science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is advancing quite rapidly. The problems that society has tackled are impressive indeed - however the challenge of data overload is paramount.


Important Dates
July 7th, 2016: paper submission deadline
July 31st 2016: Notifications send to authors
August 15th 2016: Camera ready version submission
August 21st 2016: Workshop proceedings available online

Topics of Interest
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Biomedical Data Integration

Integration of heterogeneous data sources
Data integration using crowd-sourcing techniques
Large-scale data integration
Data Model Schema and Ontology matching
Biomedical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Biomedical data quality, standardization and normalization
Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Machine learning and statistical approaches for biomedical data mining
Rule-based systems for analyzing and mining biomedical text
Semantic annotation of biomedical text
Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction for biomedical text
Entity Linking for/between Free Text and Structured Data
Data mining and Machine Learning for social media and their application to the biomedical and clinical domain
Applications

Drug design and manufacturing based on Semantic Data Integration and Discovery
Drug repurposing using semantic web technologies
Pharmacovigilance and drug/vaccine safety signal identification
Novel tools for biomedical data visualization
Novel tools for visualizing ontologies, models and reasoning paths to biomedical domain experts
Precision medicine and cancer informatics
Biomedical data discovery index
Big data applications in biomedical domains
Submission Format
We seek the following types of submissions:

Full scientific papers: up to 12 pages
Short scientific papers: up to 6 pages
All submissions must be in PDF and formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be made through the following website:easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmdid2016.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__easychair.org_conferences_-3Fconf-3Dbmdid2016.&d=CwMGAg&c=6vgNTiRn9_pqCD9hKx9JgXN1VapJQ8JVoF8oWH1AgfQ&r=rU0xbuUUZBApOE6jIK_XrMfYY0v8xTkoHsG04jzCC9Q&m=WY4EDp7CgCp9l850vWzXM_Vj4IsexuA8HNwnu-q8Sbc&s=ac9T71UTDoLmm1t83I53bVeekUDHPgEakBuk_xnPqRc&e=>

Proceedings
The workshop proceedings will be published in CEUR

We are planning to invite best selected papers to submit an extended version to a journal special issue.

Organizing Committee
Cui Tao, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Dezhao Song, Research and Development, Thomson Reuters, USA
Guoqian Jiang, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Frank Schilder, Research and Development, Thomson Reuters, USA
Jeff Heflin, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, USA


Guoqian Jiang, M.D., Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Consultant in Department of Health Sciences Research,
Division of Biomedical Statistics & Informatics,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
200 First Street, SW,
Rochester, MN, 55905
Tel: 1-507-266-1327
Fax: 1-507-284-1516
Email: jiang.guoqian@mayo.edu<mailto:jiang.guoqian@mayo.edu>
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