2nd Call for Paper: 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 Life Science 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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Sponsors:
        eSanté Agency, Luxembourg
        Luxembourg National Research Fund
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Keynotes:
	Robert Stevens (
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/robert.stevens.html)
	Alex Bateman   (
https://publons.com/author/259342/alex-bateman#profile)
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Publisher: Springer
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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.
In all cases please refer to the submission procedure:

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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)
Demos (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, posters,
demonstration, and application/experience papers
August 25th , 2017: Notification of acceptance
September 10th , 2017: Camera-ready copy due
November 14-15th, 2017: Conference days

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

Received on Friday, 5 May 2017 14:07:02 UTC