Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Semantic Web technologies
in the following areas:
- Tools for the management and analysis of semantic data in the life
sciences, medicine and health care - The description, integration, analysis and use of data in pursuit of
challenges in the life sciences, medicine and health - Semantically enabled tools for the life sciences, medicine and health
- Knowledge representation for biomedical knowledge bases
- Harnessing biomedical ontologies and terminologies with medical standards
for information exchange - Electronic Health Records (EHRs), patient data and clinical trial data
- Enabling translational medicine and personalized medicine
- Semantic scientific publishing in the life sciences, medicine and health
- Rule based systems exploiting semantics
- NLP and text mining using semantic technologies
- Emerging technologies in Semantic Web, e.g. JSON-LD, graph databases
- Empirical studies and evaluation of Semantic Web tools and applications in
the life sciences - Related standards such as CDISC, HL7 and LOINC used with semantic
technology - Ethical issues and data governance in healthcare and medical data on
Semantic Web - Future directions for Semantic Web technologies in the life sciences
SWAT4LS 2016, Amsterdam, Dec. 5 – 8
Key dates:
- Abstract and paper submission opens: July 29
- EOI for tutorials: Sept. 12
- Paper abstract: Sept. 26 (new date!)
- Poster abstract and paper submission: Oct. 3 (new date!)
- Notification of acceptance: Oct. 31
Conference:
- Monday, Dec. 5: Tutorials
- Tuesday, Dec. 6: Main Conference, Evening: Conference dinner
- Wednesday, Dec. 7: Main Conference
- Thursday, Dec. 8: Hackathon