From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Thu Jan 15 11:06:54 2015 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:06:54 -0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] ICBO 2015 -- Call for Workshops and Tutorials In-Reply-To: <013c01d030aa$c8fcab00$5af60100$@ebi.ac.uk> References: <011901d030aa$66b50fa0$341f2ee0$@ebi.ac.uk> <012c01d030aa$a2452b40$e6cf81c0$@ebi.ac.uk> <013c01d030aa$c8fcab00$5af60100$@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <014e01d030aa$fd0c26f0$f72474d0$@ebi.ac.uk> ICBO2015 - Call for workshops and tutorials The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO, http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt/callworkshops.html) will take place in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal July 26-30 2015. We would like to invite you to submit proposals to host tutorials and/or workshops. Other type of events (clinics, hackathon) will also be considered. TUTORIALS are educational events. They may be either for a full day or for a half day. They should focus on one specific topic presented by one or two experts and involve interaction with the audience. The organizers will be responsible for advertising the tutorial. Tutorials can include hands-on training, in which case the proposal should specify the anticipated requirements (laptops, software to install, etc.). WORKSHOPS provide a forum for the discussion of a specific topic through individual paper presentations; in particular, they should have a specific tangible outcome planned in advance. They may be for either a full day or a half day. The organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can also include interest group meetings, or meetings designed to disseminate the results of a research project on a specific topic. Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted to the EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsicbo2015. Each submission should include the title of the event, name, affiliation and e-mail addresses of the proposers. It should include also a description of the proposed event (maximum 200 words), including an explanation of how the workshop/tutorial will contribute to the field of biomedical ontology. Proposers should describe how they will advertise the event in order to receive a sufficient number of submissions and participants and explain the rationale for addressing their specific topic in the workshop/tutorial rather than in the main conference. One important argument would be to attract more people to ICBO. If the event has been organized in previous editions of ICBO, please indicate some statistics regarding previous attendance for better planning. For more information, please contact icbo2015 at googlegroups.com, indicating "[icbo2015] workshops and tutorials" in the subject line. Important dates: Feb 10, 2015: Workshops and tutorials proposals submission deadline Feb 24, 2015: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials Apr 13, 2015: Workshop papers submission deadline May 11, 2015: Notification of workshop paper acceptance May 25, 2015: Camera-ready copies submission deadline July 27-28, 2015: ICBO workshops and tutorials July 29-30, 2015: ICBO main conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | ORCID: 0000-0002-3469-4923 | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Fri Jan 30 15:51:59 2015 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:51:59 -0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] ICBO 2015 -- Reminder Call for Workshops and Tutorials, Call for Submissions Message-ID: <08a101d03c9c$4ce78370$e6b68a50$@ebi.ac.uk> ICBO2015 Reminder - Call for workshops and tutorials A reminder that you are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held alongside the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in Lisbon in July. For more information see http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt/callworkshops.html. Submissions are via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsicbo2015. Each submission should include the title of the event, name, affiliation and e-mail addresses of the proposers. It should include also a description of the proposed event (maximum 200 words), including an explanation of how the workshop/tutorial will contribute to the field of biomedical ontology. ICBO2015 Call for submissions *** Relevant dates *** Workshop and tutorial proposal submission deadline: Feb 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials: Feb 24, 2015 Conference paper submission: Mar 2, 2015 Conference paper notification: Apr 6, 2015 Camera-ready conference papers: Apr 20, 2015 Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career submission: Apr 13, 2015 Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career notification: May 11, 2015 Camera-ready workshop papers, software demonstration papers/abstracts and early career abstracts: May 25, 2015 Demos and Poster abstract submissions: May 18, 2015 Demos and Poster abstract notifications: June 8th, 2015 Camera-ready poster abstracts: June 15th, 2015 *** Topics *** Ontologies are knowledge representation tools widely used in the semantic description of biological and medical data from creation to publication and consumption for research and software applications including expert systems. To be maximally effective for a wide range of diverse purposes, such ontologies must be of good quality and work well together. Therefore, issues like good ontology design, ontology coordination, methods for harnessing ontologies for research and applications, and ontology maintenance need to be addressed. The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) series is designed to meet this need. ICBO 2015, the sixth event in the highly successful series, will bring together representatives of all major communities involved in ontology use and development in biomedical research, health care, and related areas. *** Call for Papers *** ICBO 2015 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 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 contributions addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple ontologies at the same time, including ontology development, visualization, annotation of data, analysis, and applications. We will accept full-length research and application papers (5 pages), poster submissions (2 page abstracts), software demonstrations (2 page abstracts), and early career researcher symposium submissions (2 page abstracts). A selection of successful poster abstracts will be invited to give flash presentations during the conference. We are also looking for submissions of half-day or full-day workshops and tutorials. Workshops should be working sessions with a specific outcome that can be subsequently presented at the main conference. Tutorials are educational events and may involve hands-on practicals. Submission of papers is via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015), according to the templates provided on the conference web site. A Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, Best Demonstration Award, and a Best Early Career Paper Award will be conferred to the author(s) at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee. All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in an issue of CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/). In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), an open-access journal published by BioMed Central (BMC). Note that publication in the JBMS special issue will incur article processing charges. *** Contact *** For more information please email icbo2015 at googlegroups.com *** Organizing Committee *** Scientific Chairs: Francisco Couto (Lisboa, Portugal) and Janna Hastings (Cambridge, UK) Local Chair: Catia Pesquita (Lisboa, Portugal) Program Chair: Stefan Schulz (Graz, Austria) Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) and Jo?o Ferreira (Lisboa, Portugal) Proceedings and Special Issue Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Zurich, Switzerland) Early Career Chair: Pierre Grenon (London, UK) Poster and Demonstrations Chair: Matthew Horridge (Stanford, USA) Sponsorship and Publicity: Emanuel Santos (Lisboa, Portugal) and Pedro Fernandes (Oeiras, Portugal) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | ORCID: 0000-0002-3469-4923 | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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