From asidhu at biomap.org Mon Jan 1 13:42:09 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 05:42:09 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1167676929.45995601e6db5@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates January 31, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Jake Chen (Indiana University, 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) Mustafa Jarrar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia) -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900 From asidhu at biomap.org Sat Jan 13 09:41:44 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:41:44 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1168699304.45a8efa86b03f@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates January 31, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers through online submission system (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/papers/) will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) 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) -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900 From asidhu at biomap.org Sun Jan 28 18:05:55 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:05:55 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1170025555.45bd2c530cf80@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates February 15, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers through online submission system (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/papers/) will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) 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) _______________________________________________ -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900 From asidhu at biomap.org Mon Jan 1 18:42:09 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 05:42:09 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1167676929.45995601e6db5@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates January 31, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Jake Chen (Indiana University, 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) Mustafa Jarrar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia) -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900 From asidhu at biomap.org Sat Jan 13 14:41:44 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:41:44 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1168699304.45a8efa86b03f@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates January 31, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers through online submission system (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/papers/) will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) 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) -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900 From asidhu at biomap.org Sun Jan 28 23:05:55 2007 From: asidhu at biomap.org (Amandeep S. Sidhu) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:05:55 +1100 Subject: [Open-bio-announce] CFP: 2nd Ontologies for Biomedical Systems Track with IEEE CBMS 2007 Message-ID: <1170025555.45bd2c530cf80@mail.opentransfer.com> 2nd Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems for 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems http://cbms07.biomap.org/ 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 this track we will broadly cover current research on development biomedical ontologies, and various issues in biomedical informatics addressed by these ontologies. Track will consist of papers in a biomedical informatics sub discipline, refereed by international program committee. Papers selected for this special track should report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a conference paper. This track will broadly address following areas: * Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data * Biomedical Data Integration, Analysis and Interoperability * Support of Ontologies for Biological Information Retrieval and Web Services * Tools for Development and Management of Biomedical Ontologies Last year the special track on ONTOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS at CBMS 2006 got a good response and some high quality papers. We have accepted 8 of 17 papers submitted to the track. More information about this track can be found at: http://cbms06.biomap.org/ 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 Special Issue and Edited Book For second year, we will be running a Special Issue of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) on "Ontologies for Bioinformatics II" in early 2008. Current issue of Ontologies for Bioinformatics, to be published in 2007 received 24 papers of which 8 are accepted. High Quality submissions will be published as book chapters in book entitled "Biomedical Data and Applications", as a part of Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence of Springer in late 2007. Important Dates February 15, 2007 Submission of a 3-page paper summary March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2007 Final camera-ready paper (6 pages, maximum) due April 15, 2007 Pre-registration deadline Paper Submission and Publication Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. There are two possibilities for initially submitting a paper: * A full paper (6 pages). It is strongly encouraged to submit a full paper, which enables reviewers to assess it more objectively and authors to substantially improve the paper based on the review feedback. In this way, the high quality of this conference series can be adequately maintained and/or improved. * A summary (3 pages). CBMS 2007 serves also as a forum for exchanging interesting and novel results of a work in progress and in this manner provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues. In this way, the 3-pages summaries are also accepted in the case that a full paper can not be delivered until the deadline. No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers through online submission system (http://cbms2007.uni-mb.si/papers/) will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. There are two possibilities for presenting an accepted paper: oral presentation (regular papers) or poster presentation (short papers). Authors can also indicate their preference when submitting a paper. The final decision will be made by the Program Committee based on the reviews. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the CBMS 2007 Symposium. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, selected high quality papers may be invited to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue of an international medical informatics journal (Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,Computer methods and programs in biomedicine). At least one of authors must pre-register to have the paper published in the proceedings. If you only plan to attend and are not submitting a paper, pre-registration is still strongly encouraged. This conference is space-limited, and registration may not be available on-site. For further questions, please contact technical program chair: cbms07 at biomap.org Track Chairs * Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Technical Program Chairs * Amandeep S. Sidhu (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) * Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA) Track 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) Pornpit Wongthongtham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Rajugan Rajagopalapillai (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 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) Vicky Nassis (La Trobe University, Australia) 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) _______________________________________________ -- Amandeep S. Sidhu, MIEEE, MACM, MACS, MISCB Senior Researcher (Bioinformatics) Room CB10.04.130 Faculty of Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia UTS Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"it.uts.edu.au Personal Email: asidhu"AT SIGN"biomap.org Personal Web: http://www.amandeep.org/ Project Web: http://www.proteinontology.info/ Ph: +61 2 9514 4469 Fax: +61 2 9514 1807 Mobile: +61 448897900