AAAI2007's workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS2007) deadline is approaching

Call for Papers 

http://neuroweb.med.yale.edu/ses2007/Welcome.html 

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Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas.
For example, W3C has established a new interest group for semantic web
health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent need for
semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific
knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data
integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and
data analyzing for different e-Science applications. 


Partially influenced by the Artificial Intelligence community, the Semantic
Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of semantic
representation languages or general-purpose semantic application
development, with inadequate consideration of requirements from specific
science areas. On the other hand, general science researchers are growing
ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for
exploring the emerging trends on the semantic and semantic web technologies.
Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science applications based on the
semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches calls for
increased interaction among these disparate communities. 


Following the success of SeS2006
(http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/), SeS2007 aims to provide an
inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from both the Semantic Web
community, and general science communities including the life science
community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 


Semantic e-Science Foundations: 

Knowledge Representation for e-Science 
Ontology Engineering for e-Science 
Knowledge Integration for e-Science 
Knowledge Management for e-Science 
Semantic Data Integration 
Semantic Web Services 
e-Science Process Management 
Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science 
Semantic Grid Middleware 
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 

Semantic Web Applications and Ontologies for: 
Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science 
Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics 
Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology 
Semantic Web for Translational Medicine 
Semantic Web for Materials Informatics 
Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate 
Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics 
Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication 

Submission and Proceedings 


We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit
original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing
deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in
length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting
guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper submission
system at http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/ no later than March
27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit final camera-ready
copy to the organizers on May 15,2007. 


The workshop proceeding will be published and distributed by AAAI. All
accepted papers will be included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case
of SeS2006, we are organizing journal special issues for extended versions
of selected high-quality work. 


Important Dates 
Submission deadline: March 27, 2007 
Notification date: April 25, 2007 
Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007 
Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled) 

Workshop Organizing Committee 

Huajun Chen 
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN 
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA 
huajunsir@zju.edu.cn <mailto:huajunsir%40zju.edu.cn>  


Yimin Wang 
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 
ywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de <mailto:ywa%40aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>  


Kei Cheung 
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA 
kei.cheung@yale.edu <mailto:kei.cheung%40yale.edu>  


Zhaohui Wu 
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN 
wzh@zju.edu.cn <mailto:wzh%40zju.edu.cn>  


Workshop Program Committee

 

Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore 

Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA

Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK 

Li Ding, Stanford University, USA 

Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA 

William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK 

George M. Garrity, Michigan State University

Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 

Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada 

Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA

Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations 

Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA

Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland 

Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA

Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA 

Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA

Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK 

Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea 

Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA 

Matthias Samwald University of Vienna, Austria 

Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK

Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA 

Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK 

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany 

York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 

Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK 

Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan