[agents] CFP - THEMATIC SUPPLEMENT ON ONTOLOGIES, SEMANTIC WEB AND HEALTH at RECIIS

[Fred Freitas]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

THEMATIC SUPPLEMENT ON
 
** ONTOLOGIES, SEMANTIC WEB AND HEALTH  **

AT THE

ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND INNOVATION IN 
HEALTH (RECIIS)
REVISTA ELETRÔNICA DE COMUNICAÇÃO, INFORMAÇÃO, INOVAÇÃO EM SAÚDE (RECIIS)
www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br

Biological and biomedical knowledge has turned out to be one of the 
fields to which ontologists have invested more of their efforts due to 
many reasons. Their subfields are inherently complex, presenting 
numerous entities which differentiate from one another in subtle ways 
(e.g. the many human cell and tissue types), and whose relations also 
pose tough challenges for modeling, due to its variety, complex 
processes involved, etc. Another issue is related to the dimensions that 
a biological, biomedical ontology should encompass: patterns of health 
and pathological organisms, and even evolutionary aspects. On the other 
hand, biological and biomedical ontologies and their applications 
promise to accelerate the development of solutions to the 
pharmacological and medical industries by benefitting from knowledge 
reuse and inferencing capabilities.

However, these areas lack standardization and heterogeneity of 
biological and biomedical ontologies with regard to scope, views and 
contents, as well as their integration also constitute hard challenges 
to be tackled.

Thus, we are asking for original contributions that addresses the above 
issues as well as other relevant ones for a Thematic Supplement on 
Ontologies, Semantic web and Health at the Electronic Journal of 
Communication, Information And Innovation In Health (RECIIS, standing 
for "Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação, Inovação em Saúde").

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


-    Biological, biomedical and healthcare knowledge representation
-    Formalisms, languages and standards for bioinformatics
-    Tools devoted to the development of biomedical ontologies
-    Patterns, requirements, best practices and guidelines for modeling 
biomedical ontologies
-    Ontologies for Genetics, Diseases, and/or other Biomedical areas
-    Interoperability, information integration and context solutions for 
bioinformatics and health care ontologies
-    Top ontologies applied to biomedical knowledge
-    Visualization and management of large biomedical ontologies
-    Semantics and its inherent problems and solutions for Biomedical 
Modeling
-    Modularization of biomedical ontologies
-    Biological applications of ontologies
-    Semantic annotations for bioinformatics and healthcare
-    Actual case studies and applications using ontologies/ semantic web 
technologies for bioinformatics and healthcare
-    Modeling and simulation of biomedical structures using ontologies
-    Evolvement management for Biomedical ontologies
-    Query Techniques for Biomedical Ontologies
 

SUBMISSION PROCESS

This thematic supplement will be constituted by 8 (eight) to 16 
(sixteen) original articles selected from the submitted ones. The 
editors however can include invited papers from researchers with 
prominent contributions to the field.l  

RECIIS receives original manuscripts in Portuguese or English. They must 
be destined exclusively for RECIIS, and must not be under consideration 
by any other periodical. As a bilingual journal, all articles will be 
published in both languages. Authors need not worry about translating 
their articles: the translation of the manuscripts approved to 
publication will be done by RECIIS.

As a policy of RECIIS, contributions should associate accessible 
language and rigorous academic standards, as well as understand science, 
technology and innovation as geographically determined aspects of 
cultural, historical, political, economic and social processes, open to 
transformation and queries. Articles (between 4.500 and 7.000 words) to 
compound a Thematic Supplement must be submitted in RTF or Word for 
Windows format, using the Trebuchet MS typeface set at 11 points, with 2 
cm margins, 1,5 line spacing and should be sent to one of the 
Supplement’s editors (see below). Papers must conform to the publishing 
guidelines, which are available at the following addresses : 
www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/novos_arquivos/GUIDELINES.pdf and 
www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. 


The following documents must be sent, in separated files along with the 
manuscript:

1) a short biography of up to 250 words, in DOC format (only for the 
first two
authors);
2) an individual color photograph of 5 x 7 cm, 400 dpi resolution, in 
JPEG format (only for the first two authors).
3) A Liability Declaration: consent is a required condition for sending 
the paper, before evaluation by the sections’ editors and by Peers;
 
And in case the paper is accepted:

4) A Copyright Assignment Term: Upon receipt of the paper’s acceptance, 
the original hard copy must be sent to the editor, by mail (EMS) or fax, 
signed by the author and, in cases of co-authorship, signed by all 
co-authors.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at two qualified reviewers / 
referees. Any other questions regarding papers submission must also be 
directed to the guest editors.

IMPORTANT DATES

15 June 2008  - Paper Submission Due
30 July 2008 - Notification of acceptance
28 September 2008 - Final camera-ready paper due

GUEST EDITORS

Fred Freitas

Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil (CIn/UFPE)
fred at cin.ufpe.br

Stefan Schulz

Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics
University Medical Center Freiburg
stschulz at uni-freiburg.de

FOCUS AND SCOPE OF RECIIS

RECIIS is a pluralistic, non-sectarian electronic journal, oriented 
towards better understanding present health arena dynamics and open to 
written contributions both in English and Portuguese. It is published by 
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Institute of Scientific and Technological 
Communication and Information in Health [Instituto de Comunicação e 
Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde] every six months. The 
Journal publishes peer reviewed materials addressing health information, 
communication and innovation in the technological, economic, 
institutional, social and public policy areas. It is a multidisciplinary 
forum for academic debate amongst researchers and graduate students from 
Brazil and abroad in the health science, biology, human and social 
sciences areas, biomedical area, agronomy and industrial engineering , 
as well as public managers, researchers, heads of bilateral and 
multilateral organizations and members of Non-governmental 
organizations. It constitutes a major vehicle of communication for 
health in Brazil, but it is also read throughout the world, particularly 
in the US and Europe.


Fred Freitas
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Centro de Informática - CIn
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil
Phone: +55 81 2126 8430 r. 4345

Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing