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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">SWAT4HCLS 2017</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">International Conference on</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Sciences,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">4-7th December 2017</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, Rome, Italy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.swat4ls.org/conference/rome2017/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.swat4ls.org/conference/rome2017/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Key dates</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Abstract and paper submission opens: July 28</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">EOI for tutorials</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Sep</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">tember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 8</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Paper abstract:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Sep</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">tember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">22</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Poster abstract and paper submission:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Oct</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ober</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 6</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Notification of acceptance:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Nov</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 3</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Conference</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Monday, Dec</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 4:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorials</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tuesday, Dec</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 5:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Main Conference, Evening: Conference dinner</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Wednesday, Dec</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 6:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Main Conference</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thursday, Dec</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ember</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 7:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Hackathon</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Confirmed Keynotes</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Carole Goble</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, University of Manchester, UK</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(more to be confirmed)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The 2017 SWAT4LS international conference will provide the same open and vibrant environment that has previously brought together researchers, developers, and users, from many fields to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences in the use of Semantic Web technologies in health care and the life sciences.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The next SWAT4LS will be held in Rome,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Italy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, 4-7th December 201</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">7</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorials, conference and hackathon will be held at the CNR headquarters and other nearby venues. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Topics</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Semantic Web technologies in the following areas:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Tools for the management and analysis of semantic data in the life sciences, medicine and health care</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- The description, integration, analysis and use of data in pursuit of challenges in the life sciences, medicine and health</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Semantically enabled tools for the life sciences, medicine and health</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Knowledge representation for biomedical knowledge bases</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Harnessing biomedical ontologies and terminologies with medical standards for information exchange</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Electronic Health Records (EHRs), patient data and clinical trial data</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Enabling translational medicine and personalized medicine</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Semantic scientific publishing in the life sciences, medicine and health</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Rule based systems exploiting semantics </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- NLP and text mining using semantic technologies</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Emerging technologies in Semantic Web, e.g. JSON-LD, graph databases</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Machine learning based solutions leveraging ontologies and semantic technologies</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Empirical studies and evaluation of Semantic Web tools and applications in the life sciences</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Related standards such as CDISC, HL7 and LOINC used with semantic technology</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Ethical issues and data governance in healthcare and medical data on Semantic Web</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- Future directions for Semantic Web technologies in the life sciences</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Types of submission</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The following types of submissions for SWAT4LS 2016 are sought:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Long papers:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Research papers – Original research on a topic of interest to the SWAT4LS audience.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Software papers – New applications and tool descriptions addressing a topic of interest to the SWAT4LS audience.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Short papers:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Position papers, application notes, discovery notes or a short version of a long paper topic. using Semantic Web applications and tools.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tutorials – Presenting teaching and learning material on a topic of interest for the SWAT4LS audience.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Software demos – Present software and tools in action.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Posters - An opportunity to present work in the area informally centred on a poster.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Industry – Abstract only required, describing industrial applications or research</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Authors of accepted paper contributions to SWAT4LS 2017 will be invited to submit to a journal special issue.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Instructions</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2017"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2017</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">All papers and posters must be in English and submitted in pdf using the LNCS format</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submissions for long papers must be a maximum of ten pages.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submissions for short papers must be a maximum of five pages.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submissions for posters abstract only required up to a maximum of two pages.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Submissions for software demo proposals must be a maximum of two pages.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Calibri">Organization Committee</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Albert Burger (Heriot-Watt University, UK)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">M Scott Marshall (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Adrian Paschke (Freie Universität Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Paolo Romano (Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Andrea Splendiani (Novartis NIBR, CH)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="it"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Valentina Presutti (ISTC CNR, Italy)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="it"></SPAN></P>
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