<div dir="ltr">[Apologies if you receive this more than once] <br>####################################################################<br> WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS<br> SEMANTIC WEB HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES<br>
####################################################################<br>2008 Asian Semantic Web Conference<br>December 8-11, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand<br><a href="http://bike.snu.ac.kr/aswc-hcls/">http://bike.snu.ac.kr/aswc-hcls/</a><br>
Both Medicine and Healthcare are areas undergoing phenomenal growth,<br>holding much promise for our future provided we can manage and apply<br>the new knowledge gained without driving up costs.<br>As one of the key technologies to their success, many organizations<br>
are now exploring the use of Semantic Web technologies<br>in the hope of easing the effort of heterogeneous data integration and<br>reuse of data in unanticipated ways,<br>simplifying the annotation and sharing of findings, expressing rich<br>
and well-defined models for search,<br>and facilitating the implementation of logic to infer additional insights.<br>++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Aims of the Conference<br>++++++++++++++++++++++<br>The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and<br>
practitioners in areas of Medicine,<br>Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Semantic Web to share their visions,<br>research achievements,<br>and solutions to real applications, to resolve challenging issues,<br>and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development.<br>
+++++++++++++++++<br>Topics of Interest<br>+++++++++++++++++<br>The aim of this workshop is to cover all aspects that relate to<br>research and practical issues<br>of Semantic Web Technologies for Life Sciences, Medicine and Healthcare.<br>
The areas of interest in support tool, application, and service<br>perspectives, include but are not limited to<br>• Ontology Modeling and Integration<br>• Knowledge Discovery, Representation and Management<br>• Biomedical Applications of Semantic Web Technologies<br>
• Anatomy Ontology<br>• Clinical Decision Support Systems<br>• Clinical Document Architecture<br>• Document Annotation (tools & methodologies)<br>• Ontologies in Medicine<br>• Social Semantic Web<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Paper Submission Guidelines<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Submitted papers must be written in English and one of the following<br>formats must be used for the first submission:<br>PDF, PS, DOC. Workshop papers will be published in a dedicated book<br>
and not in LNCS-but they will follow LNCS formatting instructions.<br>Please refer to the Springer LNCS web site<br>(<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0</a>)<br>
for the paper formatting instructions.<br>Preferred maximum paper length for the camera ready is 10 printed<br>pages including figures.<br>We encourage the authors to use the camera ready format even for the<br>first submission.<br>
++++++++++++++++<br>Important Dates<br>++++++++++++++++<br>15 September 2008 Deadline for papers submissions<br>30 September 2008 Notification of acceptance<br>15 October 2008 Camera-ready due<br>8 December 2008 Workshops day<br>
+++++++++++++++++<br>Event Information<br>+++++++++++++++++<br>The workshop will take place during the 3rd Asian Semantic Web<br>Conference (ASWC 2008).<br>For every accepted paper at least one of the authors must attend<br>
the workshop and must register for the workshop and the main conference.<br>++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Organizing Committee<br>++++++++++++++++++++++<br>[ Bo-Yeong Kang ]<br>BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea<br>Email: <a href="mailto:comeng99@snu.ac.kr">comeng99@snu.ac.kr</a><br>
[ Hong-Gee Kim ]<br>BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea<br>Email: <a href="mailto:hgkim@snu.ac.kr">hgkim@snu.ac.kr</a><br>[ Hyun Namgoong ]<br>BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ngh@snu.ac.kr">ngh@snu.ac.kr</a><br>
[ Christopher Baker ]<br>Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore<br>Email: <a href="mailto:cbaker@i2r.a-star.edu.sg">cbaker@i2r.a-star.edu.sg</a><br>[ Susie Stephens ]<br>Eli Lilly and Company, USA<br>Email: <a href="mailto:stephens_susie_m@lilly.com">stephens_susie_m@lilly.com</a><br>
[ Sung-In Lee ]<br>BiKE Lab, Seoul National University, Korea<br>Email: <a href="mailto:sunginlee@snu.ac.kr">sunginlee@snu.ac.kr</a> </div>