CFP: 3rd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for CBMS 2008

3rd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for

21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

http://cbms08.biomap.org/

Call for Papers

Biomedical Ontologies have developed in an uncoordinated way, often
reflecting mere relations of 'association' between what are called
'concepts', and serving primarily the purposes of information extraction
from on-line biomedical literature and databases. In recent years, we have
learned a great deal about the criteria which must be satisfied if ontology
is to allow true information integration and automatic reasoning across data
and information derived from different sources. The goal of this track is to
survey existing biomedical ontologies and reform them in such a way as to
allow true information integration in biomedical domain. Authors are invited
to submit original papers exploring the theories, techniques, and
applications of biomedical ontologies. Papers are invited (but not limited)
to the following themes:

* Biomedical Ontologies for Genetics, Proteomics, Diseases, Privacy etc.
* Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data
* Semantics in Biological Data Modeling
* Use of semantics to manage Interoperation in Biomedical Databases
* Semantic Web technologies and formalisms for Biomedical Data
* Ontology representation and exchange languages for bioinformatics
* Biomedical Ontologies and OWL
* Biological Data Integration and Management using Ontologies
* Biomedical Data Engineering using Ontologies
* Application of Biomedical Ontologies for Heterogeneous Database Access
* Query Optimization Techniques for Biomedical Database using Ontologies
* Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web
Services
* Change Management in Biomedical Ontologies
* Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies

Important Dates

04 February 2008  Paper Submission Due
28 February 2008 Notification of acceptance
28 March 2008      Final camera-ready paper due
28 March 2008      Pre-registration deadline

Paper Submission Procedures

Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results.
Use a maximum of 6 pages IEEE two-column format, including figures and
references. All submissions will be done electronically via the CBMS 2008
web submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CBMS2008).

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper at the CBMS 2008 Symposium. All papers will
be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers
will be included in the conference proceedings. High Quality submissions
will be published in a special issue of Biomedical Ontologies Journal by
Oxford University Press.

Track Organizers

Amandeep S. Sidhu
Curtin University of Technology, Perth
http://www.amandeep.org/

Tharam S. Dillon
Curtin University of Technology, Perth

Jake Chen
Indiana University, USA
http://informatics.iupui.edu/people/profile.php?id=74

Elizabeth Chang
Curtin University of Technology, Australia
http://www.fit.cbs.curtin.edu.au/~chang/docs/index.php

Program Committee

Alexey Tsymbal (Siemens, Germany)
David Hansen (e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Australia)
David Taniar (Monash University, Australia)
Ernesto Damiani (Computer Science Department, Milan University, Italy)
Fabio Porto (Database Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland)
Farookh K. Hussain (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Fedja Hadzic (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Huiru Zheng (University of Ulster, UK)
Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA)
James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Jason Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Li Liao (University of Delaware, USA)
Ling Feng (Tsinghua University, China)
Maja Hadzic (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Midori Harris (GO Consortium, European Bioinformatics Institute)
Mustafa Jarrar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Robert Meersman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Silke Eckstein (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Sun Kim (School of Informatics, Indiana University, USA)
Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia)
Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics &
Life Sciences, USA)
Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)