- From: Susie M Stephens <STEPHENS_SUSIE_M@LILLY.COM>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:27:18 -0500
- To: Susie M Stephens <STEPHENS_SUSIE_M@LILLY.COM>
The deadline for submitting papers to the Semantic Web for Health Care and
Life Sciences Workshop at WWW2008 has been extended until February 1, 2008.
---------------------------------------------------
SEMANTIC WEB FOR HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES WORKSHOP
held in conjunction with
The 17th International World Wide Web Conference
April 21-25, 2008
Beijing, China
http://ccnt.zju.edu.cn/hcls2008/
(http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/WWW2008 mirror Web site)
Biomedical researchers need to be able to ask questions that span many
heterogeneous data sources in order to make well-informed decisions. For
this to be achieved, data about drugs, patients, diseases, genes,
proteins, and pathways must be effectively integrated. Yet the
integration of disparate biomedical data continues to be a challenge to
achieve.
Many organizations are now exploring the use of Semantic Web
technologies in the hope of easing the effort of data integration. The
benefits promised by the Semantic Web include aggregation of
heterogeneous data using explicit semantics, simplified annotation and
sharing of findings, the expression of rich and well-defined models for
data aggregation and search, easier reuse of data in unanticipated ways,
and the application of logic to infer additional insights.
W3C has established the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
(HCLSIG) Interest Group to help organizations in their adoption of the
Semantic Web. The HCLSIG is chartered to develop and support the use of
Semantic Web technologies to improve collaboration, research and
development, and innovation adoption in the domains of Health Care and
Life Sciences. As a part of realizing this vision, we are organizing a
workshop on the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences in
conjunction with WWW2008.
Audience:
The workshop encourages participation from industry and academia with an
emphasis on the practical aspects of applying Semantic Web technologies
to the challenges of Health Care and the Life Sciences. We encourage
participation from Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies, Health Care
Organizations, Universities and Research Institutes, IT Vendors, and
Government Agencies.
Topics of Interest:
- Semantic integration
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Semantic Web applications
- Semantic Web Services
- Querying RDF/OWL
- Query mediation and translation
- Semantic mashups
Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above
at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcls2008
Papers should follow the general format of refereed papers for WWW2008
as described at: http://www2008.org/submissions/index.html
Important Dates:
Paper submission: Extended
until February 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February
22, 2008
Final version of accepted papers for inclusion on conference CD:
February 29, 2008
Final version of accepted papers March 21,
2008
Date of workshop: April 22,
2008
Program Committee:
Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant
Christopher Baker, A-STAR
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Keith Boyce, ImmuneTolerance
Cory Brouwer, Pfizer
Bill Bug, UCSD
Helen Chen, AGFA
William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
Tim Clark, Harvard University
Sudeshna Das, Harvard University
Don Doherty, Brainstage
Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics
Andrew Gibson, University of Manchester
Carole Goble, University of Manchester
Yufeng Guo, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Amarnath Gupta, SDSC
Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University
William Hayes, BiogenIdec
Ivan Herman, W3C
Yusheng He, Peking University
Vipul Kashyap, Partners Healthcare
Marijke Keet, Free University of Bolen-Bolzano
Phil Lord, Newcastle University
M. Scott Marshall, University of Amsterdam
Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline
Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas
Mark Musen, Stanford University
Fabian Neuhaus, NIST
Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics
Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Elgar Pichler, AstraZeneca
Matthew Pocock, Newcastle University
Daniel Rubin, Stanford University
Matthias Samwald, University of Vienna
Susanna Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute
Michael Schroeder, Dresden University
Nigam Shah, Stanford University
Amit Sheth, Wright State University
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester
Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe University
Adam West, Eli Lilly
Katy Wostencroft, University of Manchester
Xuezhong Zhou, Nornern Jiaotong University
Organizing Committee:
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University
Kei Cheung, Yale University
Michel Dumontier, Carleton University
Eric Prud'hommeaux, W3C
Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons
Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly
Yimin Wang, University of Karlsruhe
Received on Friday, 25 January 2008 19:27:48 UTC