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AAAI2007's Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS07)<br>
<font size="2">23 July, 2007, Vancouver, Canada, co-located with AAAI'07<br><br></font><div class="paragraph Heading_1" style="line-height: 25px; padding-top: 0pt; font-weight: bold;">Call
for Papers</div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Semantic technologies have been gaining momentum
in various e-Science areas. For example, W3C has established a new interest
group for semantic web health care and life science. Hence, there is an urgent
need for semantics-based methodologies, tools, middleware to facilitate
scientific knowledge modeling, logical-based hypothesis checking, semantic data
integration and application composition, integrated knowledge discovery and data
analyzing for different e-Science applications.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Partially influenced by the Artificial
Intelligence community, the Semantic Web researchers have largely focused on
formal aspects of semantic representation languages or general-purpose
semantic application development, with inadequate consideration of
requirements from specific science areas. On the other hand, general science
researchers are growing ever more dependent on the web, but they have no
coherent agenda for exploring the emerging trends on the semantic web
technologies. Advances in e-science infrastructure and e-science
applications based on the semantic technologies and related knowledge-based
approaches calls for increased interaction among these disparate
communities.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Following the success of SeS2006 (<a href="http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/">http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/SeS2006/</a>),
SeS2007 aims to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for researchers from
both the Semantic Web community, and general science communities including
the life science community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Semantic e-Science
Foundations:</div>
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<ul><li>Knowledge Representation for e-Science</li><li>Ontology Engineering for e-Science</li><li>Knowledge Integration for e-Science</li><li>Knowledge Management for e-Science</li><li>Semantic Data Integration</li><li>Semantic Web Services
</li><li>e-Science Process Management</li><li>Semantic Infrastructure and Architecture for e-Science</li><li>Semantic Grid Middleware</li><li>Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery</li></ul>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Semantic Web
Applications and Ontologies for:</div>
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<ul><li>Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science </li><li>Semantic Web for Biomedical informatics </li><li>Semantic Web for System and Integrated Biology </li><li>Semantic Web for Translational Medicine </li><li>Semantic Web for Materials Informatics
</li><li>Semantic Web for Geography, Environment and Climate </li><li>Semantic Web for Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics </li><li>Semantic Web and Digital Libraries and Scientific Publication </li></ul>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Submission and Proceedings</span><br>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span>We invite
academic/industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original
research papers, well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed
systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed 8 pages in length
including references and should be prepared using the AAAI formatting
guidelines. The papers should be submitted by using the paper
submission system at </span><a href="http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/" title="http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/" style="line-height: 20px; opacity: 1;">http://www.easychair.org/SeS2007AAAI2007/</a><span>
no later than March 27,2007. Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2
members of the PC. Authors of accepted papers will be required to
submit final camera-ready copy to the organizers on May 15,2007.<br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;">The workshop proceeding
will be published and distributed by AAAI. All accepted papers will be
included in the AAAI Digital Library, as in the case of SeS2006, we are
organizing journal special issues for extended versions of selected
high-quality work.<br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Important Dates</div>
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<ul><li>Submission deadline: March 27, 2007</li><li>Notification date: April 25, 2007</li><li>Author accepted paper submission deadline: May 15, 2007</li><li>Workshop date: July 23,2007 (to be settled)</li></ul>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Workshop Organizing
Committee</div>
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Huajun Chen<br>
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, 310027, CN</div>
<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;">Yale Center for
Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA<br>
<a href="mailto:huajunsir@zju.edu.cn">huajunsir@zju.edu.cn</a> <br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;">Yimin Wang<br>
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany<br>
<a href="mailto:ywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de">ywa@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de</a> <br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;">Kei Cheung<br>
Yale
Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, CT 06520-8009, USA<br>
<a href="mailto:kei.cheung@yale.edu">kei.cheung@yale.edu</a> <br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px;">Zhaohui Wu<br>
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, CN<br>
<a href="mailto:wzh@zju.edu.cn">wzh@zju.edu.cn</a> <br>
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<div class="paragraph Body" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Workshop Program
Committee</div>
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Christopher Baker, Institute for Infocomm Research (IČR), Singapore <br>
Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA<br>
Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA<br>
Mathieu d'Aquin, Open University, UK <br>
Li Ding, Stanford University, USA <br>
Helen Chen, Agfa Healthcare, USA <br>
William Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, CN HK <br>
George M. Garrity, Michigan State University<br>
Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany <br>
Volker Haarselv, Concordia University, Canada <br>
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA<br>
Marta Iglesias, FAO, United Nations <br>
Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., USA<br>
Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland <br>
Joanne Luciano, Harvard University, USA<br>
Natalia Maltsev, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br>
John F. Madden, Duke University Medical Cente, USA <br>
Peter Mork, MITRE Corporation, USA<br>
Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK <br>
Young-Tack Park, Soongsil University, Korea <br>
Alan Ruttenburg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA <br>
Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, UK<br>
Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA <br>
Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, UK <br>
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany <br>
York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany <br>
Hai Wang, University of Southampton, UK <br>
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan<br>
Sumi Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institue of Technology, Japan <br>