SyMpATHY 2019 : SeMAntic Technologies for Healthcare and Accessibility Applications

SyMpATHY: SeMAntic Technologies for Healthcare and Accessibility Applications

Special track along with SEMAPRO 2019, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/SEMAPRO19.html

September 22, 2019 to September 26, 2019 - Porto, Portugal


Chairs and Coordinators
* Dr. Efstratios Kontopoulos, Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
* Prof. Em. Sándor Darányi, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden
* Marina Riga, Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece


Call for Papers
In an environment of rapidly increasing volumes of available data, the progressive rise of semantic technologies provides a wide range of tools for representing and processing information more efficiently, for establishing interoperability between diverse systems, and for integrating data from heterogeneous sources. The role of these technologies now plays a pivotal role in various domains (e.g., semantic search, conversational agents, digital humanities, etc.), but has been considerably downplayed in healthcare and accessibility, where its potential has not yet been extensively tapped into. Towards addressing this shortcoming, and having the ambition to improve the social inclusion of people facing healthcare and accessibility issues, this special track aims to serve as a venue for presenting and discussing novel ideas, experiences and open problems in the application of semantic and web technologies in the relevant domains.


Topics include, but not limited to
* Practical applications in healthcare or accessibility, capitalizing on semantic workflow technologies and/or semantic web services;
* Relevant ontologies, vocabularies, semantic models and knowledge graphs;
* Designing artificial languages for healthcare applications under limited communication opportunities;
* Semantic querying and rule-based systems in the respective domains;
* Empirical studies and evaluation of relevant semantics-enabled tools and applications;
* Semantic integration of heterogeneous information (potentially from multimodal sources);
* Semantic infrastructures supporting provenance, trust, and reproducibility;
* Future directions for semantic technologies in healthcare, accessibility and relevant interdisciplinary fields.


Important Deadlines
* Inform the Chair: As soon as you decide to contribute
* Submission: July 26, 2019
* Notification: August 16, 2019
* Registration: August 26, 2019
* Camera-ready: August 26, 2019
Note: These deadlines are somewhat flexible, providing arrangements are made ahead of time with the chair.


Contribution Types
* Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
* Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
* Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]


Paper Format
* See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html [both LaTex and .doc templates]
* Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
* More information on camera-ready preparations will be posted after the paper notifications are sent out.


Publications
* Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
* Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
* Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Paper Submission
https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=SEMAPRO+2019+Special
Please select Track Preference as SyMpATHY


Registration
* Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings.
* Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html


Contacts
Efstratios Kontopoulos: [email protected]
SEMAPRO Logistics: [email protected]