[Owl-devel] CfP 13th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2018)

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Dear all

Please, find below the call for papers of DILS 2018. We are looking 
forward to receiving your submissions.

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The Thirteenth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life 
Sciences 2018 (DILS 2018) will be held by TIB – Leibniz Information 
Centre for Science and Technology in Hannover (Germany) at Leibnizhaus 
on November 20-21, 2018.
https://events.tib.eu/dils2018/

In addition, the TIB will hold a pre-conference on "Data Integration in 
the Life Sciences and Semantic Technologies" on November 19, 2018 and a 
post-conference on "Open Research Knowledge Graph" on November 22, 2018. 
DILS 2018 is being hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for 
Science and Technology (TIB in Hannover), L3S Research Center Leibniz 
Universität Hannover (L3S in Hannover) and ZB MED – Information 
Centre for Life Sciences (ZB MED in Cologne/Bonn)

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline for research papers: July 6th, 2018
Paper submission deadline for industry, demonstration, and 
application/experience papers:  July 13th, 2018
Notification of acceptance: September 4th, 2018
Camera-ready copy due: September 17th, 2018
Conference days:
Tutorials on "Data Integration in the Life Sciences and Semantic 
Technologies": November 20th,  2018
Main conference: November 20-21, 2018
Workshop on "Open Research Knowledge Graph": November 22rd, 2018

Keynote Speakers
Catia Pesquita. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Alfred Pühler. Universität Bielefeld, Germany


Aims and Scope
DILS provides a forum for the discussion of data management on the life 
sciences, including open problems and technical solutions for 
integration, query processing, and analytics. In particular, the 
thirteenth edition of DILS will focus on Big life science data coming 
from diverse data sources, e.g., genomic data collections, biomedical 
literature, or clinical records, and in the challenges for transforming 
Big data into actionable insights.

Topics of Interests and Research Areas:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Challenges and opportunities with big, complex or heterogeneous life 
science data
Life science data integration and management
Authenticity, privacy, security, and trust in life science data
Knowledge graphs from life science data
Knowledge representation and discovery from life science data
Knowledge extraction for life science data
Ontology mappings and evolution
Quality assurance in integrated life science repositories
Architectures and data management techniques for the life sciences
Query processing and optimization
Question answering over life science data
Exposing life science data (APIs, Linked Open Data, SPARQL endpoints)
Metadata and Provenance Management of life science repositories
Analytics of large-scale life science data
Ethical, legal and social issues with biomedical data integration.
Data integration challenges and applications in various life-sciences
Applications using and managing Big life science data


Industry papers, demos and application/experiences are also welcome to 
DILS 2018. They will be selected according to industry-compliant 
assessment criteria.

Paper Submission and Publication

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor 
and practical relevance to DILS 2018. Four types of papers will be 
selected:
Full research papers (up to 15 pages)
Short research papers (8 pages)
Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages)
Demos and Posters (4 pages)

Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates
The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in the 
LNCS/LNAI/LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
And submitted using the EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2018

Special Issue on “Data Quality of Life Sciences”
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version 
of their papers to the Special issue on “Data Quality on Life 
Sciences”  of the ACM Journal of “Data and Information Quality 
(JDIQ)”


Organizing Committee
General Chair: Sören Auer. Leibniz Information Centre For Science and 
Technology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Organizing Co-Chairs:
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover
Dietrich Nelle, ZB-Med
Katrin Hanebutt, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and 
Technology
Programme Chair: Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz Information Centre For 
Science and Technology, Germany and Universidad Simón Bolívar, 
Venezuela

Program Committee
Following is the list of (confirmed) program committee members not in 
any particular order:

Cédric  Pruski,  Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 
Luxembourg
Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Bernd   Müller, ZB MED Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences, 
Germany
Konrad  Förstner,Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University 
of Würzburg,  Germany
Juliane  Fluck, Fraunhofer, Germany
Marcos Da Silveira,     LIST- Luxembourg Institute of Science and 
Technology, , Luxembourg
Naveen Ashish, Taming Disease with Data Science, USA
José Luis Ambite, University of Southern California, USA
Ulf Leser, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 
Germany
Erhard  Rahm,   University of Leipzig, Germany
Michel  Dumontier, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Alejandro Rodriguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Catia Pesquita, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Angeli  Moeller, Bayer, Germany
Pierre  Larmande, Université de Montpellier, France
Robert  Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 
Saudi Arabia
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Irland
Johanna Voelker, Bayer, Germany
Matthias Gietzelt, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
Anika   Groß, Universität Leipzig, Germany