[CFP] (Extended) Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2016, Amsterdam, NL, 5-8th December 2016

Call for Papers for SWAT4LS 2016

International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life
Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2016,
Amsterdam, NL,  5-8th December 2016

http://www.swat4ls.org/conference/amsterdam2016/

Key dates (extended!):
Abstract and paper submission opens: July 29
EOI for tutorials:                                    Sept. 12
Paper abstract:                                      Sept. 26
Poster abstract and paper submission: Oct. 3
Notification of acceptance:                     Oct. 31

Conference:
Monday, Dec. 5:       Tutorials
Tuesday, Dec. 6:      Main Conference, Evening: Conference dinner
Wednesday, Dec. 7: Main Conference
Thursday, Dec. 8:     Hackathon

Confirmed Keynotes:
Amos Bairoch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Bairoch
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
https://www.insight-centre.org/users/dietrich-rebholz-schuhmann

The 2016 SWAT4LS international conference will provide the same open and
vibrant environment that has previously brought together researchers,
developers, and users, from many fields to discuss goals, current limits and
real experiences in the use of Semantic Web technologies in health care and
the life sciences. The next SWAT4LS will be held in Amsterdam, NL, 5-8th
December 2016 at the Dutch National Cancer Institute  http://www.nki.nl/.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Semantic Web technologies
in the following areas:

- Tools for the management and analysis of semantic data in the life
sciences, medicine and health care
- The description, integration,  analysis and use of data in pursuit of
challenges in the life sciences, medicine and health
- Semantically enabled tools for the life sciences, medicine and health
- Knowledge representation for biomedical knowledge bases
- Harnessing biomedical ontologies and terminologies with medical standards
for information exchange
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs), patient data  and clinical trial data
- Enabling translational medicine and personalized medicine
- Semantic scientific publishing in the life sciences, medicine and health
- Rule based systems exploiting semantics
- NLP and text mining using semantic technologies
- Emerging technologies in Semantic Web, e.g. JSON-LD, graph databases
- Empirical studies and evaluation of Semantic Web tools and applications in
the life sciences
- Related standards such as CDISC, HL7 and LOINC used with semantic
technology
- Ethical issues and data governance in healthcare and medical data on
Semantic Web
- Future directions for Semantic Web technologies in the life sciences

Types of submission

The following types of submissions for SWAT4LS 2016 are sought:

Long papers:
Research papers – Original research on a topic of interest to the SWAT4LS
audience.
Software papers – New applications and tool descriptions addressing a topic
of interest to the SWAT4LS audience.
Short papers:
Position papers, application notes, discovery notes or a short version of a
long paper topic. using Semantic Web applications and tools.
Tutorials – Presenting teaching and learning material on a topic of interest
for the SWAT4LS audience.
Software demos – Present software and tools in action.
Posters - An opportunity to present work in the area informally centred on a
poster.
Industry – Abstract only required, describing industrial applications or
research
Authors of accepted paper contributions to SWAT4LS 2016 will be invited to
submit to a special issue of the BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics.

All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2016.

Instructions

All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf using the
LNCS format http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions for long papers must be a maximum of ten pages.
Submissions for short papers must be a maximum of five pages.
Submissions for posters abstract only required up to a maximum of two pages.
Submissions for software demo proposals must be a maximum of two pages.

Submission

All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system at the
following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2016
Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific
Program Committee.

Organization Committee

Andrea Splendiani (Novartis NIBR, CH)
M Scott Marshall (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
Adrian Paschke (Freie Universität Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
Albert Burger (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Paolo Romano (IST National Cancer Research Institute, Italy)