[PlanetKR] ICBO 2020: 1st CfP, by April 20 (Int. Conf. on Biomedical Ontologies & ODLS Workshop, Sep 16-19, Bolzano, Italy)
Frank Loebe
frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Tue Jan 14 13:09:26 EST 2020
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>> ICBO | ODLS 2020 << 1st Call for Papers
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/FrqmC91W27H2B49ghoOA3s?domain=icbo2020.inf.unibz.it
Main research track submissions due: April 20, 2020
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11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO)
10th Workshop on Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS)
held jointly as part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2020)
September 16-19, 2020 Bolzano, Italy
== Scope and Topics ==
The International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) [1] is a
premier annual conference series that brings together researchers,
students and professionals involved in the development and application
of ontologies in all areas of biology, medicine, diseases, human health,
genome biology, environment, biomes, nutrition, food, plants,
agriculture and others.
This year, ICBO will be held jointly with Ontologies and Data for the
Life Sciences (ODLS), an annual workshop series that focuses on
ontologies, data management and data processing in the life sciences and
in health care. It covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information
management, from experimental data acquisition and preprocessing across
analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to developing
structured representations of knowledge, in particular in the form of
ontologies, with their various applications.
The theme for ICBO|ODLS 2020 is "Ontology across Boundaries", although
submissions on any topic related to bio-ontologies are welcome. The
theme includes, for example:
* Ontologies and associated methods and tools at the practical
interfaces between different yet interrelated disciplines and
communities of practice (e.g. biology–chemistry,
immunology–epidemiology etc.)
* Ontologies and associated methods and tools overcoming boundaries
between basic research and translation
* Ontology as a tool for open science to reduce segregation of
research results and improve access to the full body of knowledge
across scientific disciplines, especially as applied to urgent
topics such as the climate crisis
* Ontologies and associated methods and tools in practice across
national boundaries (e.g. medical ontologies needing to serve
international contexts)
* Ontologies and the socioeconomic boundaries that can lead to
differences in health outcomes in different population groups
* Ontology in translation: ontologies supporting knowledge, data and
applications in multiple languages
* Ontologies in relation: interrelating ontologies (e.g. at different
levels of granularity or specificity) and linking ontologies to
terminologies, models and data standards
* Overcoming the practical boundaries of ontologies in integrated
applications including data annotation, data integration, data
science, machine learning and other artificial intelligence
technologies
ICBO|ODLS 2020 is part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK) [2],
therefore co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) [3] and the 11th
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
(FOIS) [4], as well as several additional events.
== Important Dates ==
[all dates in 2020]
Main research paper track:
* Submission deadline April 20 (Mon)
* Notification June 04 (Thu)
* Camera-ready versions July 15 (Wed)
All other tracks TBA (submission not before June)
Conference dates September 16-19 (Wed-Sat)
All submission deadlines refer to 23:59:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
== Types of Papers ==
ICBO|ODLS 2020 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously
published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of
the application of ontologies to biomedical problems, ontology-based
methods, ontology design and ontology interoperability, at any stage in
the process from data creation to use in applications or scientific
analyses. Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches
to ontology building and use.
In addition, we would like to invite contributions showcasing methods
for ontology-based research, including statistical methods, and papers
addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple
ontologies at the same time, including ontology development,
visualization, annotation of data, analysis, and applications.
Accordingly, there are several categories of submissions, corresponding
to distinct tracks of the conference:
* full-length research papers (8-10 pages)
* full-length tools and applications papers (8-10 pages)
* poster abstracts (2 pages)
* early career researcher symposium abstracts (5 pages)
A selection of successful poster abstracts will be invited to give flash
presentations during the conference.
Contributions must be delivered non-anonymously and as a single PDF
file. They must be formatted using the IOS Press template [5]
(one-column format, available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX) according to
the guidelines for book authors. The same template is required for
submissions to FOIS [4] as well as to ICBO and other workshops held in
the context of BOSK [2].
== Submission and Proceedings ==
Contributions will need to be submitted via EasyChair. A corresponding
link will soon be available at the ICBO|ODLS website [1].
A Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, Best Tool and Application Award,
and Best Early Career Contribution Award will be awarded at the conference.
All accepted papers and abstracts will be published open access in an
issue of the IAOA series of CEUR-WS [6]. Moreover, accepted papers will
be invited to submit an expanded version to a special issue collection
in an open access journal (further details to be announced at the
conference website [1]).
== Contact ==
For more information please email us at icbo2020 at unibz.it [7].
== Organizing Committee ==
Conference Chairs:
* Janna Hastings (University College London, UK)
* Frank Loebe (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany)
Tools and Applications Chairs:
* Phillip Lord (Newcastle Univ., UK)
* James Overton (Knocean, inc. & OBO Foundry)
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
* Robert Hoehndorf (KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia)
* Randi Vita (LJI, La Jolla, USA & OBO Foundry)
Early Career Chairs:
* Adrien Barton (IRIT, Toulouse, France & Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
* Nicole Vasilevsky (Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, USA)
Publicity Chair:
* Jennifer Warrender (Newcastle Univ., UK)
Local Organizing Committee at Free Univ. of Bolzano, Italy:
* Oliver Kutz [Local Chair]
* Pietro Galliani
* Guendalina Righetti
* Nicolas Troquard
== Links ==
[1] ICBO|ODLS 2020 website
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/FrqmC91W27H2B49ghoOA3s?domain=icbo2020.inf.unibz.it
[2] BOSK 2020 website
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zemkC0YK9ycm3NZDcDbta8?domain=summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
[3] Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) 2020 website
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/YaW_CgZ0kVUG2Epxu2Bjaz?domain=ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it
[4] Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2020 website
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KIBtCjZ1nVURqoPMt7As4Z?domain=fois2020.inf.unibz.it
[5] IOS Press templates for book authors
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_7bnCk81oVH5Q216hJrlxY?domain=iospress.nl
[6] CEUR Workshop Proceedings: IAOA Series
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/axOZClx1pVUXZRp5sY1H1B?domain=ceur-ws.org
[7] ICBO|ODLS 2020 contact email
icbo2020 at unibz.it
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