Call for Papers

http://neuroweb.med.yale.edu/ses2007/Welcome.html

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Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum in various e-Science areas. For example, W3C has established a new interest group for semantic web health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent need for semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data analyzing for different e-Science applications.


Partially influenced by the Artificial Intelligence community, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on formal aspects of semantic representation languages or general-purpose semantic application development, with inadequate consideration of requirements from specific science areas. On the other hand, general science researchers are growing ever more dependent on the web, but they have no coherent agenda for exploring the emerging trends on the semantic and semantic web technologies. Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based approaches calls for increased interaction among these disparate communities.


Following the success of SeS2006 (http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/), SeS2007 aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from both the Semantic Web community, and general science communities including the life science community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


Semantic e-Science Foundations:

Knowledge Representation for e-Science
Ontology Engineering for e-Science
Knowledge Integration for e-Science
Knowledge Management for e-Science
Semantic Data Integration
Semantic Web Services
e-Science Process Management
Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science
Semantic Grid Middleware
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Semantic Web Applications and Ontologies for:
Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science
Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics
Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology
Semantic Web for Translational Medicine
Semantic Web for Materials Informatics
Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate
Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics
Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication

Submission and Proceedings


We invite academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper submission system at http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/ no later than March 27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the PC. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit final camera-ready copy to the organizers on May 15,2007.


The workshop proceeding will be published and distributed by AAAI. All accepted papers will be included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case of SeS2006, we are organizing journal special issues for extended versions of selected high-quality work.


Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 27, 2007
Notification date: April 25, 2007
Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007
Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled)

Workshop Organizing Committee

Huajun Chen
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA
huajunsir@zju.edu.cn


Yimin Wang
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
ywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de


Kei Cheung
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA
kei.cheung@yale.edu


Zhaohui Wu
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN
wzh@zju.edu.cn


Workshop Program Committee

Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore

Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA

Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK

Li Ding, Stanford University, USA

Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA

William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK

George M. Garrity, Michigan State University

Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada

Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA

Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations

Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA

Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland

Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA

Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA

Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA

Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK

Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea

Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA

Matthias Samwald University of Vienna, Austria

Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK

Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA

Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany

York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK

Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan