CFP: Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group Pre-Symposium at AMIA 2018


Scope

We invite contributions and participation in the Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group Pre-Symposium at AMIA 2018. The workshop will be held on Saturday, November 3 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. There are three submission categories for this full-day workshop:


  • Doctoral Consortium

    PhD Candidates may submit a (maximum) 5-page summary, including references, of their in-progress dissertation research. Selected students will present their work and receive feedback from a panel of experts. The goal of the doctoral consortium is to provide a venue in which students can discuss their dissertation research with experts in the field, allowing them to:

    • refine their research topic/focus;
    • receive constructive feedback from experts on completed/planned experiments, potential pitfalls, and potential future directions;
    • form potential collaborations.

  • Knowledge Representation and Semantics Highlights

    We invite (maximum) 1-page submissions for relevant research which has been published in a journal or presented at a (non-AMIA 2018) conference since the last AMIA (e.g., ICBO, FOIS, ISWC, ESWC, AAAI, IJCAI, etc...). Submissions should include a short abstract and description of the impact of the work. The question of why this work is a highlight should be answered. This session will allow high-impact research submitted to other venues to have more visibility among its target audience, and will allow the pre-symposium attendees to see research presented which they might otherwise have missed.


  • Late-Breaking Research

    Two-page abstracts discussing in-progress work or incremental improvements on already published work may be submitted to be presented and discussed at the workshop. Three distinct types of submissions will be accepted:

    • Abstracts for preliminary results from in-progress research;
    • Abstracts for incremental improvements on already published research;
    • Abstracts for systems / software artifacts currently in development (but in a demonstrable state). This session will allow researchers to quickly disseminate new results, and to receive feedback on their in-progress research before submission to a larger conference or journal venue. Accepted abstracts in this category will be presented by poster or live system demonstration.

Organizing

  • Co-Chairs
    • Daniel R. Schlegel, Computer Science Department, SUNY Oswego, USA
    • Mathias Brochhausen, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
  • Scientific Committee Chair
    • Jiang Bian, Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, USA
  • Scientific Program Committee
    • Licong Cui, University of Kentucky, USA
    • Xia Jiang, Ohio University, USA
    • Zhe He, School of Information, Florida State University, USA
    • Rui Zhang, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, USA
    • Raymond Francis Sarmientom, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
    • Jonathan Bona, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA

Important Dates

Submission deadline: September 8, 2018

Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2018

Workshop Schedule

The workshop will be held on Saturday, November 3 from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Authors Title Type Schedule
Introduction 8:30-8:40
Lucy Lu Wang Semi-automated integration of pathway data for pathway analysis Doctoral Consortium 8:40-9:20
Oshani Seneviratne, Sabbir Rashid, Shruthi Chari, Jim McCusker, Kristin Bennett, Jim Hendler and Deborah McGuinness Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Breast Cancer Knowledge Representation and Semantics Highlights 9:30-9:55
Coffee Break 10:00-10:30
Jim McCusker and Deborah McGuinness Developing Probabilistic Scientific Knowledge Graphs with Whyis Knowledge Representation and Semantics Highlights 10:30-10:55
Shruthi Chari, Rukmal Weerawarana, Oshani Seneviratne, James P. McCusker, Deborah L. McGuinness and Amar Das Semantic Modeling of Cohort Descriptions in Research Studies Late Breaking Research 11:00-11:25
Alexander New, Sabbir Rashid, John Erickson, Deborah McGuinness and Kristin Bennett Using semantics and analytics to drive dynamic health risk analyses Late Breaking Research 11:30-11:55
Lunch 12:00-1:00
Shirly Stephen, Oshani Seneviratne, Deborah L. McGuinness, Shruti Chari and Amar Das G-PROV: A Provenance Encoding Structure for Guideline Evidence Late Breaking Research 1:00-1:25
Nkechinyere Agu, Oshani Seneviratne and Deborah McGuinness Improving Identified Comorbidities using Semantically Annotated Disease Graph Late Breaking Research 1:30-1:55
Daniel Schlegel Translating OWL Ontologies to CSNePS: Progress and Challenges Late Breaking Research 2:00-2:25
Coffee Break 2:30-3:00
Cooper Stansbury, John Rincon, Colin Gross and Zach Landis-Lewis Towards an Ontology for Performance Summary Displays Late Breaking Research 3:00-3:25
Jonathan Bona, Mathias Brochhausen and William Hogan Adding semantically-rich representations of NDCs to the Drug Ontology Knowledge Representation and Semantics Highlights 3:30-3:55
Jonathan Bona, Tracy Nolan and Mathias Brochhausen Representing Non-image Data in The Cancer Imaging Archive Collections Knowledge Representation and Semantics Highlights 4:00-4:25

Submission

Please follow the standard AMIA formats for all submission types.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amiakrswg2018

For some potential topics and information about the working group, see the AMIA Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group webpage here: https://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/knowledge-representation-and-semantics

AMIA 2018: https://www.amia.org/amia2018/