[DL] Call for Participation: K R - M E D 2 0 0 4, June 1st, Whistler, BC Canada

[Ronald Cornet]

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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

First International Workshop
on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation
Collocated with KR 2004

Dates: June 1, 2004
Venue: Westin Resort and Spa

Whistler, British Columbia, CANADA

http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/pub/krmed2004/

*** Advance registration until May 14 ****

This Workshop is the first of this kind, organized by the recently founded
Special Interest Group "Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation" of
the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

The engineering of large-scale domain knowledge, mostly in form of
controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification systems
constitutes an important branch of activities in Medical Informatics. The
recent growth of interest in genomics and molecular biology has set
another focus on the organization of the fast growing terminological
knowledge in this domain. Despite recent advances in using formal
languages for biomedical concept representation, many fundamental issues
(ontological basis, expressivity, scalability) remain unresolved.

This workshop aims at bringing together people dealing with the design and
implementation of (bio)medical concept systems with those dedicated to
formal ontologies and representation languages. The goal is to analyze in
which aspects (theoretical) KR research can be used for a new generation
of biomedical concept systems.

Accepted Papers:

Axioms for parthood and containment relations in  bio-ontologies
         Thomas Bittner

Investigating subsumption in DL-based terminologies
         Olivier Bodenreider, Barry Smith, Anand Kumar, Anita Burgun

STEEL: A spatio-temporal extended event language for tracking epidemic 
spread from outbreak reports
         Herv Chaudet

Using semantic dependencies for consistency management of an ontology of 
brain-cortex anatomy
         Olivier Dameron, Bernard Gilbaud, Mark Musen

Weaving the biomedical semantic Web with the Protege OWL Plugin
         Holger Knublauch, Olivier Dameron, Mark A. Musen

Symbolic modeling of structural relationships in the Foundational Model of 
Anatomy
         Jos L.V. Mejino, Cornelius Rosse

Towards a computational paradigm for biomedical structure
         Stefan Schulz, Udo Hahn

An ontology of randomized controlled trials for evidence-based practice: 
Content specification and evaluation using
the competency decomposition method
         Ida Sim, Ben Olasov, Simona Carini

Representing the MeSH in OWL: Towards a semi-automatic migration
         Lina Soualmia, Christine Golbreich, Stefan Darmoni

Examining SNOMED from the perspective of formal ontological principles: 
Some preliminary analysis and observations
         Kent A. Spackman, Guillermo Reynoso

Using C-OWL for the alignment and merging of medical ontologies
         Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Paolo Bouquet, Fausto 
Giunchiglia, Luciano Serafini

Lessons Learned from aligning two representations of anatomy
         Songmao Zhang, Peter Mork, Olivier Bodenreider


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Ronald Cornet, M.Sc.                        email: R.Cornet at amc.uva.nl
dept. of Medical Informatics                phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188
Academic Medical Center, Room J2-256        fax:   +31 (0)20 691 9840
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