1st International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV) & 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on
Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV)
http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/
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Held in parallel with
the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)
http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/
Montpellier, France, May 26/27, 2013
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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The semantic Web standards, tools, ontologies and related technologies
have considerably grown in maturity in the recent years. Nowadays,
accessing a wide catalog of biological, social, environmental,
ecological data sources allows supporting the Biodiversity stakeholders
to resolve their complex questions. Will the real time access to web
resources efficiently support the definition of strategies to conserve
and manage biodiversity? How semantic web technologies could help
handling the complex and heterogeneous big data related to Biodiversity?
The workshop aims at indentifying the key challenges faced by the
bioinformatics community, discuss the solutions and identify the
opportunities emerging from the trans-disciplinary interactions (Plant
Science – Informatics). Therefore, we expect the bioinformatics experts
to explain how they apply semantic web standards and tools to their
scientific topic, from Biology, Agro-ecology, Genomics, Environment, to
Social Sciences, Citizen Sciences.
Research papers presenting various aspects of Semantic Web technologies
applied to Biodiversity data, ranging from position papers to
implemented systems description and their evaluation, will be selected.
We are particularly interested by the use of the semantic technologies
to design, develop systems that supports research on Biodiversity
conservation and management for food security, (like the strategies for
resilience to climate change pressure, sustainability of productive
ecosystems, ecosystems services monitoring, territories management,
etc.), rather than systems only supporting research on climate patterns,
soil erosion, and the potential consequences on biodiversity.
TOPICS
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Scientific themes of interest (include but are not limited to):
* sustainable agriculture,
* plant,
* health and habitat,
* relationship between plant-pests/pathogens,
* usages of plants by community,
* biodiversity conservation,
* ecosystems services,
* quality of biodiversity data.
Informatics technologies of interest (include but are not limited to):
* ontology applications,
* knowledge engineering,
* linked biodiversity data,
* remote sensors,
* mobile devices,
* vizualization tools,
* data mining.
ABSTRACT & PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:
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Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in
English. Authors must send a pre-submission abstract not exceeding 500
words at s4biodiv2013@ird.fr. Authors will receive a mail indicating of
their abstract has been selected by the Scientific Committee for a full
paper submission.
Submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for long papers and 8 pages
for short papers and must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines.
Submissions will only be accepted in the PDF format. Submissions must be
realized through the easychair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s4biodiv2013
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Pre-submission inquiry deadline: February 24, 2013
Submission Deadline: March 4, 2013.
Notification: April 1, 2013
Camera ready: April 15, 2013.
Workshop day: May 26/27, 2013.
PUBLICATION:
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Proceedings of the workshop will be published online at CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). The best paper presented at the workshop will
be included in the supplementary Springer LNCS proceedings of the
ESWC2013 conference. Furthermore, a selection of papers presented at the
workshop will be invited to be revised and extended version for a second
peer-review process targeting publication in a referenced journal.
INFORMATION:
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The workshop will take place in Montpellier, May 26/27, 2013.
Please visit the website for more information:
http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/
STEERING COMMITEE:
Pierre Larmande (IRD - UMR DIADE, France) (Chair)
Isabelle Mougenot (UMII – UMR Espace DEV, France)
Thérèse Libourel (UMII – UMR Espace DEV, France)
Clément Jonquet (UMII – LIRMM, France)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity International, France) (Chair)
Manuel Ruiz (CIRAD - UMR AGAP, France)
Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD - UMR AMAP, France)
Richard Bruskiewich (Bioversity International, Italy)
Pascal Neveu (INRA - UMR MISTEA, France)
Joel Sachs (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Julie Chabalier (Natural Solutions, France)
Cyril Pommier (INRA - URgi – Ephesis, France)
Mark Wilkinson (Polytechnic University of Madrid, and University of
British Columbia)
Konstantin Todorov (UMII - UMR LIRMM, France)
Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, USA)
Xavier Sirault (CSIRO, Autralia)
Caterina Caracciolo (FAO , Italy)
Lieke Verhelst (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Damian Gessler (Iplant collaborative, USA)
Nikos Manouselis (Agro-Know, University of Alcala, Grece)
Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF, University of Copenhagen , Denmark)
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Pierre Larmande
Workshop Semantics for Biodiversity
Steering Committee and Organization Committee Chair
http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/
PhD in computational biology
Member of the Institute of Computational Biology
http://www.ibc-montpellier.fr/
Correspondant du plateau bioinformatique
http://bioinfo.mpl.ird.fr/
IRD - UMR DIADE
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