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Call for Papers (03)
Biomedical Ontology in Action (04)
November 8, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/ (05)
Workshop organized by the National Center for Ontology Research (NCOR) and
the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) (06)
Collocated with FOIS 2006 (07)
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In recent years, a good deal of attention has been paid to the sorts of
criteria that an ontology must satisfy if it is to ensure true information
integration and automatic reasoning across large-scale knowledge
sources. Formal ontology is now an established field of research with
conferences such as FOIS and organizations such as NCOR.
The biomedical domain is at the leading edge of ontology research, as
illustrated by the recent creation of the National Center for Biomedical
Ontology, a NIH Roadmap center. (09)
Standing on the foundations of biomedical ontologies are the many
applications supported by these ontologies. For example, in health care,
ontologies are an important component of an interoperable health
information technology infrastructure. In biology, ontologies have become
essential for annotating the literature and integrating the multiple,
heterogeneous knowledge bases resulting from the analysis of
high-throughput experiments. (010)
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from a broad range of
fields that are related to formal ontology and medical informatics. The
goal is to show how current research can be brought to bear on the
practical problems associated with the development of applications
supported by these ontologies, i.e., to show biomedical ontology "in
action". (011)
The scope of KR-MED 2006 includes the following areas: (012)
* Biomedical ontologies and electronic health records (EHRs)
* Semantic Web applications in healthcare and life sciences
* Use of ontologies in knowledge discovery, text analysis and data mining
* Biomedical ontology evaluation
* Temporal, spatial and causal knowledge reasoning in biomedical systems
* Knowledge representation, acquisition, validation, visualization and
maintenance in biomedical systems
* Applications of knowledge representation languages, description logics
for biomedical systems
* Formal approaches to large biomedical controlled terminologies and
vocabularies (013)
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Important dates (015)
* Paper submissions due: July 7, 2006
* Notification of paper acceptance: August 18, 2006
* Final paper deadline: September 15, 2006
* Workshop: November 8, 2006 (016)
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Submission information (018)
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed
above. All papers must be written in English and the length should not
exceed 8 pages including figures, tables and references.
Papers should be submitted electronically to krmed06@xxxxxxxxxxxx (019)
The final paper has to be delivered as PDF. The format corresponds to that
of the AMIA proceedings. Use 8.5 x 11 inch paper size with one inch margins
left, right, top, and bottom. Place the title in 14 point Times Roman
typeface, single-column, bolded, centered, initial capitals. Include the
names, credentials, institutions and locations of the author(s) below the
title using 12 point Times Roman typeface, single-column, bolded, centered,
initial capitals. Include the main text of the submission single-spaced in
10 point Times Roman typeface, justified, two-column format with .5 inch
between columns. Use the following reference format: Cite all references in
the text, tables, or figure legends. In the text, use 8 point superscript
if possible to indicate reference numbers; if not possible, use 10 point
numbers in brackets. Under a centered heading References at the end of the
submission, provide a list of references cited, in order of occurrence in
the manuscript, and with titles using initial capitals only. List all
authors of any cited work when there are six or fewer authors; if more than
six, list only the first three followed by et al. Follow the Vancouver
Style (for further details, see
www.acponline.org/journals/resource/unifreqr.htm).
LaTeX and MS Word document templates will be available shortly on the
conference website: http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/medinf/kr-med-2006/. (020)
The workshop proceedings will be published electronically on
http://ceur-ws.org.
After the workshop, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to
expand and refine their papers for possible publication in the journal
Applied Ontology (http://www.iospress.nl/html/15705838.php). (021)
Contact krmed06@xxxxxxxxxxx for additional information about paper
submission requirements. (022)
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Committees (024)
Organizing Committee
* Stefan Schulz (Freiburg University Hospital, Germany)
* Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
* Fabian Neuhaus (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) (025)
Scientific Program Committee
* Olivier Bodenreider (chair, National Library of Medicine, USA)
* Anita Burgun (University of Rennes, France)
* Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands)
* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
* Aldo Gangemi (ISTC Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Italy)
* Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Anand Kumar (IFOMIS, Germany)
* Phillip Lord (University of Newcastle, UK)
* Yves Lussier (University of Chicago, USA)
* Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA)
* Peter Mork (Mitre Corporation, USA)
* Fabian Neuhaus (National Center for Ontology Research, USA)
* Daniel Rubin (National Center for Biomedical Ontology, USA)
* Stefan Schulz (Freiburg University Hospital, Germany)
* Lowell Vizenor (National Library of Medicine, USA)
* Chris Welty (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
* Jennifer Williams (OntologyWorks, USA) (026)
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Venue (028)
Inn at the Colonnade
4 West University Parkway
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Telephone: +1 410 235 5400
Fax: +1 410 235 5572 (029)
The Inn at the Colonnade is located across from Johns Hopkins University
less than four miles from Baltimore's CBD and historic Inner Harbor, and
only 20 minutes from BWI International Airport. (030)
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Related Organizations (032)
NCOR: http://ncor.us/
AMIA: http://www.amia.org/
FOIS: http://www.formalontology.org/ (033)
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