Dear all, Apologies if you receive this more than once ####################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS (DILS'17) 12th International Conference on Data Integration in Life Science 2017 November 14-15, 2017, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg Conference Website: http://www.elisa-project.lu/en/dils-2017/ (FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 2017/Jun/01) ####################################################################### The DILS conference aims to promote research and innovation in data and knowledge integration, sharing and exchange in the domain of life sciences. The notion of life sciences is expansive including the domains of biology and bioinformatics, biomedical data, medical data, environment data, and clinical and health information. Researchers, informaticians, students and entrepreneurs from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering, and clinical informatics are invited to share their knowledge and experience. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ • Life Science Data Modelling o "Big Data" infrastructure o Data integration systems o Data models and standards o Ontology and its evolution o Architectures and data management techniques • Analysing, Indexing, and Querying Life Sciences Datasets o Linked Open Data o Machine Learning o Query formulation, processing and optimization • Annotating, Matching, and Sharing Life Sciences Datasets o Data annotation and maintenance o Ontology and Schema Matching • Privacy and Provenance of Life Sciences Datasets o Ethical, legal and social issues o Data owner sensitive data sharing o Privacy-preserving data integration and management o Sharing, updating and propagating data Industry papers, demos and application/experiences are also welcome to DILS'17. They will be selected according to industry-compliant assessment criteria. In all cases please refer to the submission procedure: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor and practical relevance to DILS 2017. Three types of papers will be selected: Full research papers (up to 15 pages) Short research papers (8 pages) Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages). Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates and submitted using the EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2017 The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI/LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ June 1st , 2017: Paper submission deadline for research, industry, posters, demonstration, and application/experience papers August 25th , 2017: Notification of acceptance September 20th , 2017: Camera-ready copy due November 14-15, 2017: Conference days +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ General Chairs: • Marcos DA SILVEIRA • Cédric PRUSKI • Reinhard SCHNEIDER -- Venkata P. Satagopam Bioinformatics Core Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) University of Luxembourg Campus Belval, House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux T +352-466-644-6421 F +352-466-644-6949 venkata.satagopam@uni.lu<mailto:venkata.satagopam@uni.lu> http://lcsb.uni.lu ----- This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please notify me and permanently delete the original message and any copies. -----