[seek-logistics] DILS 2005 (and USC ;-)

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Dear all: 

The 2nd Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
(DILS'05) will be held in San Diego from July 20-22, 2005.

Please check out the CFP here: http://www.sdsc.edu/dils05/ 
(site is under construction). Proceedings of DILS will appear in the
Springer Lecture Notes on Bioinformatics (subseries of LNCS)

Note that DILS is about one month after SSDBM (including the
submission deadlines).  

cheers

Bertram

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			 C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

			 2nd International Workshop on
	       Data Integration for the Life Sciences (DILS 2005)

			 San Diego Supercomputer Center
		      University of California, San Diego
				July 20-22, 2005

			  http://www.sdsc.edu/dils05/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Submission:    February 21, 2005
Paper Submission:       February 28, 2005
Author Notification:    April 25, 2005
Camera-Ready Version:   May 16, 2005
DILS 2005:              July 20-22, 2005

AIMS and SCOPE
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State of the art applications in the life sciences, e.g., molecular biology,
biodiversity, drug discovery and personalized medical research, increasingly
depend on bioinformatics methods to manage and analyze vast amounts of highly
diverse and complex data. There has been an unprecedented explosion in the
number and size of public data resources, and a rapid growth in the variety and
volume of laboratory data, from microarrays measuring gene transcription levels
and genome sequence variations to protein interaction screens measuring
components of protein complexes, etc.  This has been fueled by both world-wide
research activity and the emergence of new technologies, e.g. high-throughput
devices such as microarrays.  The modeling, management and analysis of this data
often requires a comprehensive integration of heterogeneous and typically
semi-structured data, distributed across many possibly data sources. Recent
recent interoperability standards such as XML and WSDL solve some (easy)
problems, but data and process integration remain a time-consuming and
error-prone manual tasks.  The difficulty of these tasks is compounded by the
high degree of semantic heterogeneity across data sources, varying data quality,
as well as domain specific application requirements.

DILS 2005 provides a new forum for presenting new challenges and research
results in data integration for life sciences.  We invite researchers,
professionals, and industrial practitioners to participate and share their
knowledge in this forum.  We solicit the following types of papers:

 *  Research papers (up to 15 pages)
 *  Application/experience papers (up to 15 pages)
 *  Short papers describing systems or prototypes (up to 5 pages)

Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI (Lecture Notes in
Bioinformatics), see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Papers should address challenges for data integration in life sciences, and
propose or evaluate methods and architectures and techniques to overcome these
challenges.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Complex biological data types and data modeling of life science data
- Knowledge representation and reasoning (e.g. with biological pathway data)
- Data integration solutions and performance metrics
- Biological query processing and analysis challenges
- Ontology-based data integration and analysis
- Metadata and annotation management
- Scientific workflows, data analysis pipelines, and tool integration
- Biological data quality and data cleaning
- Domain and application specific data integration
- System prototypes and commercial solutions

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers.
Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

All submissions will be handled electronically.
Detailed submission instructions will be available by December 1 2004:
             http://www.sdsc.edu/dils05/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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PC Co-Chairs:
 Bertram Ludaescher     UC Davis and SDSC 
 Louiqa Raschid         University of Maryland

Organizing Chair:
 Amarnath Gupta         SDSC, UC San Diego

Sponsorship Chair:
 Linda Ferri            SDSC, UC San Diego

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Judith Blake, Jackson Laboratory, USA
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis, USA
Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Barbara Eckman, IBM Life Sciences, USA
Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh, UK
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK 
Michael Gribskov, Purdue University, USA 
Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA 
Ralf Hofestaedt, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Matthew Jones, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Jessie Kennedy, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany  
Victor Markowitz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Frank Olken, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan, USA
Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
Julia Rice, IBM Life Sciences, USA
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, University of Washington, USA
Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Aidong Zhang, University at Buffalo, USA