Call for Papers (PDF)
Life Sciences applications typically involve large volumes of data of various kinds and a multiplicity of software tools for managing, analysing and interpreting them. There are many challenging problems in the processing of life sciences data that require effective support by novel theories, methods and technologies. Conceptual modelling is the key for developing high-performance information systems that put these theories, methods and technologies into practice. The fast growing interest in life sciences applications calls for special attention on resource integration and collaborative efforts in information systems development.
The primary objective of the workshop is to share research experiences in conceptual modelling for applications in life sciences and to identify new issues and directions for future research in relevant areas, including bioinformatics, health informatics, medical and veterinary informatics. The workshop invites authors to submit original papers exploring the usage of conceptual modelling ideas and techniques for developing and improving life sciences databases and information systems.
Topics of Interest
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to (as long as they are related to new research approaches in the intersection of conceptual modelling and life sciences):
- Conceptual modelling for biological and laboratory information systems;
- Conceptual modelling for analysis tools in bioinformatics;
- Conceptual modelling for health information systems;
- Conceptual modelling for medical and veterinary information systems;
- Life sciences databases, data exchange and data distribution;
- Data representation and visualisation;
- Life sciences ontologies and taxonomies;
- Data, process and application integration in life sciences;
- Data warehousing and data mining;
- Privacy and security in life sciences applications;
- Electronic health records;
- Reuse and reengineering of life sciences applications; and
- Collaborative and open source software development in life sciences.
Paper Submission
Formatting Guidelines
CMLSA 2008 proceedings will be part of the ER 2008 Workshop
volume published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Thus,
authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Refer to
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
for style files and details. The page limit for workshop
papers in LNCS format is 10 pages.
A paper submitted to CMLSA 2008 cannot be under review for any
other workshop, symposium, conference or journal during the
time it is being considered for CMLSA 2008.
Submission Guidelines
Submission to CMLSA 2008 will be electronically only. Authors are asked to create a submission system account first. Subsequently, this account can be used to submit one or more abstracts and upload corresponding papers.
- The online submission system can be accessed HERE.
Important Dates
| Abstract submission: | May 07, 2008 (extended) | |
| Full paper submission: | May 07, 2008 (extended) | |
| Author notification: | June 09, 2008 (revised) | |
| Camera-ready paper submission: | June 30, 2008 (extended) | |
| Workshop: | October 20-23, 2008 | |
Workshop Organisers
Program Committee Chairs
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Deakin
University, Australia)
Sven Hartmann (Clauthal University of Technology, Germany)
Publicity Chair
Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
Program Committee
Isabelle Bichindaritz (University of Washington, USA)
Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA)
Carlo Combi (University of Verona, Italy)
Silke Eckstein (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany)
Amarnath Gupta (University of California San Diego, USA)
Dirk Labudde (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Dirk Langemann (University of Luebeck, Germany)
Sebastian Link (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Huiqing Liu (BioMaPS, Rutgers University, USA)
Victor Maojo (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
Maria Mirto (University of Salento, Italy)
Roque Marin Morales (University of Murcia, Spain)
Fabio Porto (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
Allan Rodrigo (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Keun Ho Ryu (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
Amandeep S. Sidhu (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Marie-Noelle Terrasse (University of Burgundy, France)
Thodoros Topaloglou (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jing Wang (Massey University, New Zealand)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Esteban Zimanyi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)