From vmgcastellanos at yahoo.com Wed Mar 3 17:57:58 2010 From: vmgcastellanos at yahoo.com (Victor Manuel) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:57:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [MOBY-l] Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah! Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web In-Reply-To: <889913.4182.qm@web45904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <889913.4182.qm@web45904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <848824.72506.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah! http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 7, 2010 The deadline for the ORES workshop has been extended to March 7, 2010. We would also like to announce the invited talk as part of the workshop, which will be given by Nigam Shah from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/). The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum. Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqu? outlining requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle. Submitting papers and system descriptions We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development and application of ontology repositories, repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions discussing some of the following questions: * How can ontology repositories ?talk? to each other? * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository be made comprehensible for users? * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle? * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories? * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other applications and legacy systems? * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology repositories? * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors? * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning? * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures? * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications? * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these? Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0). Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010. Important dates Papers and demo submission: March 7, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification: April 5, 2010 Camera ready version: April 18, 2010 Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010 Organizing committee Mathieu d'Aquin, the Open University, UK Alexander Garc?a Castro, Bremen University, Germany Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Kim Viljanen, Aalto University, Finland Program committee Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA. Leo J. Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA. Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Mike Dean, BBN, USA. John Bateman, Universit?t Bremen, Germany. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany. Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany. Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland. Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. Eero Hyv?nen, Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki, Finland. Martin Luts, ELIKO TAK, Estonia. Janne Saarela, Profium Ltd, Finland. Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sandro Hawke, W3C. Wolfram W??, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria ________________________________ From jeedward at yahoo.com Fri Mar 5 19:27:08 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:27:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [MOBY-l] Call for papers: BCBGC-10, USA, July 2010 Message-ID: <924565.80933.qm@web45909.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, data-mining, and related areas. Call for papers: BCBGC-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) ? International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) ? International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World? Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining ? all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward From markw at illuminae.com Sat Mar 20 00:24:49 2010 From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:49 -0700 Subject: [MOBY-l] Excitement at Moby Central Message-ID: just seconds ago, we gained a new member of Moby Central - Eddie is now the father of a 7.3lb baby boy! I am literally in tears of happiness for Eddie and his wife Julieta! No doubt, we will lose Eddie for a couple of months (I think he now has more important things to think about LOL!) but... there is no better way to lose someone than to bring another bioinformatician into the world!! Yay Eddie and Julieta! From jeedward at yahoo.com Wed Mar 24 18:52:48 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [MOBY-l] Call for papers (Deadline Extended): BCBGC-10, USA, July 2010 Message-ID: <452749.54872.qm@web45909.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, data-mining, and related areas. Call for papers (Deadline Extended): BCBGC-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) ? International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) ? International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World? Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining ? all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward