Call for papers: SWAT4HCLS Basel 2023

CfP - SWAT4HCLS Basel 2023

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life

Sciences. 2023 edition in Basel, February 13 - 16, 2023


Website: http://www.swat4ls.org/

CfP: https://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/basel2023/call-for-papers/

Submission: via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4hcls0


The SWAT4HCLS conference will take place in person in Basel (Switzerland),
Feb 13-16, 2023.

We welcome original contributions to the program, covering the use of
semantic technologies

across the life sciences and healthcare spectrum. We welcome original
research, experiences,

position papers and this year also “data in use” submissions. We will
continue to support

remote participation via live streaming and engagement via chat.


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


*Semantic Web Infrastructures and Resources in Healthcare and Life Science*


● Architectures and algorithms to support volume and scale, rapid knowledge
changes

and heterogeneity

● Semantic querying, data validation languages, knowledge graphs,
rule-based systems.

● Infrastructures supporting provenance, traceability, trust and
reproducibility

● Information visualization and exploratory analysis methods

● Biomedical ontologies, rules and medical standards for interoperability

● Semantic workflow technologies and semantic web services applied in life
sciences.

● Semantic Web technologies in FAIR data and open data ecosystems7

● Semantic scientific publishing in the life sciences, medicine and
healthcare, public health

● Semantic infrastructures for patient-centric healthcare data ecosystems


*Semantic Web and AI in Healthcare and the Life Sciences*


● Explainable AI and semantics

● Ontology based neural symbolic reasoning and learning

● Machine learning and data mining methods for Semantic Web data

● Knowledge-driven ML and data mining

● NLP and text mining using semantic technologies

● Clinical Intelligence from Electronic Health Records (EHRs), patient data
and clinical trial

data

● Applications of Solid https://solid.mit.edu/

● FHIR


*Semantic Web Technologies across Healthcare and Life Science Communities*


● Semantic Web and biodiversity

● Semantic Web agriculture, food and nutrition

● Semantic Web drug discovery and drug repurposing

● Semantic Web translational medicine and personalized medicine

● Semantic Web and bioimaging

● Semantic Web and SARS-CoV-2


Submission Guidelines


All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or

conference/workshop. We welcome the following type of contributions: long
papers

(introducing novel research contributions), negative results, short papers
(presenting early

results or work in progress), position papers (introducing an idea and
discussion around it),

demo papers (presenting tools, software, applications, etc.), posters and
“data in use”

(showcase of federated queries over multiple “FAIR” datasets). Submissions
will be evaluated by

at least two members of the Programme Committee. Accepted papers will be
part of the

proceedings of the CEUR conference proceedings and will be publicly
available under CC-by 4.0

license.


● All submissions will be handled via EasyChair

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4hcls0

● All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf using the
LNCS format.

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guideline

s

● Submissions for long papers and negative results must be a maximum of 10
pages.

● Submissions for short papers and position papers must be a maximum of 5
pages.

● Submissions for demos, posters abstract and “data in use” papers must be
a maximum

of two pages.


About “data in use” paper


We welcome a “data in use” paper describing a SPARQL endpoint, RDF dataset
or OWL

ontology this year. The paper should include:

1. How the SPARQL endpoint/dataset/OWL ontology may be used and reused,

2. Interoperability with other SPARQL endpoints/datasets/OWL ontologies,

3. The life science/healthcare/chemistry/agriculture use cases for the
dataset,

4. A SPARQL/OWL query demonstrating a use case, and

5. Demonstration of a federated query connecting the proposed dataset with
a publicly

available one.



Important Dates


● Abstract (suggested) submission: November 7, 2022


*Submission deadlines*:


● Full paper submission (long, short and position papers, and reports on
negative results):

November 21, 2022

● Posters, demos and “data in use” paper submissions: December 5, 2022

● Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2022

● Camera-ready due: January 9, 2023

Conference Dates:

● Tutorials: Monday February 13, 2023

● Main Conference: Tuesday and Wednesday February 14 - 15, 2023

● Hackathon: Thursday February 16, 2023