Call for Papers: 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2017)

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS (DILS'17)

12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2017
           November 14-15, 2017, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg
     Conference Website: http://www.elisa-project.lu/en/dils-2017/
             (FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2017/Jun/01)

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Proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics

AIMS AND SCOPE

The DILS conference aims to promote research and innovation in data and
knowledge integration, sharing and exchange in the domain of life sciences.
The notion of life sciences is expansive including the domains of biology
and bioinformatics, biomedical data, medical data, environment data, and
clinical and health information.
Researchers, informaticians, students and entrepreneurs from biology,
medicine, computer science and engineering, and clinical informatics are
invited to share their knowledge and experience.
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TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS

* Life Science Data Modelling
- "Big Data" infrastructure
-  Data integration systems
-  Data models and standards
-  Ontology and its evolution
-  Architectures and data management techniques

* Analysing, Indexing, and Querying Life Sciences Datasets
- Linked Open Data
- Machine Learning
- Query formulation, processing and optimization

* Annotating, Matching, and Sharing Life Sciences Datasets
- Data annotation and maintenance
- Ontology and Schema Matching

* Privacy and Provenance of Life Sciences Datasets
- Ethical, legal and social issues
- Data owner sensitive data sharing
- Privacy-preserving data integration and management
- Sharing, updating and propagating data

Industry papers, demos and application/experiences are also welcome to
DILS'17. They will be selected according to industry-compliant assessment
criteria.

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor and
practical relevance to DILS 2017. Three types of papers will be
selected:
- Full research papers (up to 15 pages)
- Short research papers (8 pages)
- Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages).
- Demo papers (4 pages)

Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates and submitted using the
EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2017

The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI/LNBI
(Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).

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AWARDS

Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of
(1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper.
Authors of the best accepted papers that address some interesting data
quality challenges will be invited to submit an extended version of their
paper to the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.

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IMPORTANT DATES

- June 1st , 2017: paper submission deadline for research, industry,
              demonstration, and application/experience papers
- August 25th , 2017: notification of acceptance
- September 20th , 2017: camera-ready copy due
- November 14-15, 2017: conference days

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General Chairs:
* Marcos DA SILVEIRA
* Cédric PRUSKI
* Reinhard SCHNEIDER