[Dbworld] New deadline: Tools & techniques for effective creation & exploitation of biodiversity knowledge
From: “Andrew Jones ” (email address not shown)
Paper Submission Deadline Extended
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Due to requests received, the paper submission deadline for this workshop has been extended to FRIDAY 26th MARCH.
Tools and techniques for effective creation and exploitation of biodiversity knowledge
10th September 2010
Cardiff University (Wales, UK)
To be held in association with the KES 2010 conference.
Special session home page:
http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/kes2010session/
KES 2010 home page:
http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/
Scope
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Biodiversity is an issue of major current concern, for example because of the problem of continued biodiversity loss. Tools and techniques are increasingly emerging to support taxonomists as they describe, classify and re-classify organisms; to help biodiversity researchers to carry out their tasks (e.g. recording, monitoring and modelling species distributions; predicting the effect of climate change on species distribution, etc.), and to make biodiversity knowledge available to others not necessarily dir
ectly involved in biodiversity research such as bioinformaticians who need to have a reliable label to assign to sequence data that they have collected.
Submissions are invited from researchers developing techniques, tools and systems to assist in the effectiveness with which tasks such as these can be carried out. Specific relevant technical issues include:
- achieving interoperation in an interdisciplinary setting
- the roles of ontologies and metadata
- managing and reasoning with alternative scientific names,
vernacular names and concepts
- enabling users to work within their preferred conceptual
framework (for example, a preferred taxonomy)
- maintenance and propagation of provenance metadata
- workflows to assist specific scientific processes
The above list is not intended to be exhaustive or to exclude papers that do not fall into one or more of the above categories.
Submission
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Original papers of up to 10 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI format are invited, produced in accordance with the instructions given on and referred to from the KES “paper submission” page:
http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/submission.php
Papers should be submitted via the PROSE system under the “invited sessions” category. The URL for the relevant submission page is:
http://www.prosemanager1.co.uk/kes2010is/submitpaper.asp
Each paper submission received will be subject to peer review by three members of the programme committee.
Publication
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Accepted papers will be published in the KES 2010 conference proceedings, in the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI series.
Presentation
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At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the workshop.
Important Dates
Submission deadline (extended): 26th March 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9th April 2010
Final “camera-ready” copy deadline: 27th April 2010
Registration deadlines: See below
Workshop: 10th September 2010
Programme Committee
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Dr Andrew C Jones (Cardiff University, UK) (chair)
Dr Richard J White (Cardiff University, UK) (co-chair)
Prof Frank Bisby (The University of Reading, UK)
Prof Jessie Kennedy (Napier University, UK)
Prof Rod Page (Glasgow University, UK)
Dr Alan Paton (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK)
For any enquiries, please contact the Programme Committee chair at:
Andrew.C.Jones@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Registration
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Where possible, delegates should register for the entire KES conference. Special concessionary rates have been negotiated for anyone wishing to attend this session only:
Authors: 200 Euros
Non-authors: 175 Euros
Details of how to register at these special rates, and the associated registration deadline, will be made available shortly on the home page for this session:
http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/kes2010session/
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Dr Andrew C Jones
Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics,
Cardiff University,
Queen’s Buildings, 5 The Parade,
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
E-mail: Andrew.C.Jones@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44-(0)29-20875537 FAX: +44-(0)29-20874598
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