Call for Papers - Extension - SWAT4HCLS 2023 Basel

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

Full paper submission has been extended to November 28, 2022.
Authors submitting by Nov. 28 are invited to submit an abstract ahead of
time to help with planning reviews.

Call for Papers

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 example of “data” submissions. We will
continue to support remote participation via live streaming and engagement
via chat.
Topics of interest

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

Semantic Web and Data Centric 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 ecosystems
   - Semantic scientific publishing in the life sciences, medicine and
   healthcare, public health
   - Semantic infrastructures for patient-centric healthcare data ecosystems

Knowledge representation, 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 and FAIR data applications across Healthcare and Life Science
Communities

   - Semantic Web and FAIR data in translational medicine and personalized
   medicine
   - Semantic Web and FAIR data in drug discovery and drug repurposing
   - Semantic Web and FAIR data in bioimaging
   - Semantic Web and FAIR data in agriculture, food and nutrition
   - Semantic Web and FAIR data in biodiversity
   - Semantic Web and FAIR for  SARS-CoV-2

Important Dates

Submission deadlines:

   - Full paper submission (long, short and position papers, and reports on
   negative results): November 21, 2022 November 28, 2022 (*Extended*)
      - We invite authors to enter a provisional abstract by *November 7th* (to
      facilitate the review process). Authors submitting by Nov. 28 are invited
      to submit an abstract on Nov. 21.
   - 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

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,
“data in use” (showcase of federated queries over multiple “FAIR”
datasets). Submissions will be evaluated by at least three 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, submit yours here
   <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4hcls0>.
   - All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf using
   the one-column variant of CEURART style
   <https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/>.
   Submissions can also be LNCS format
   <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>
    (mirror
   <http://web.archive.org/web/20220928125222/https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>
at
   archive.org) but will need to be converted to CEURART for the
   camera-ready version.
   - Submissions for long papers (including 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” must be a
   maximum of two pages.

Special Issue

Selected papers will be invited to be submitted to special issue of the BMC
Medical Informatics and Decision Making associated to SWAT4HCLS (details in
process).