12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA INTEGRATION IN LIFE SCIENCES
November 14-15, Hotel Parc Belle-Vue, Luxembourg, LU

The Twelfth International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS2017) will be held at the Hotel Parc Belle-Vue, on Nobember 14-15, 2017. The conference aim is to foster discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and knowledge management for the life sciences. Researchers and professionals from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering are invited to share their knowledge and experience.

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Sponsors:
eSanté Agency, Luxembourg
Luxembourg National Research Fund
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Keynotes:
Robert Stevens (https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/robert.stevens.html)
Alex Bateman (https://publons.com/author/259342/alex-bateman#profile)
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Publisher: Springer
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IMPORTANT DATES

June 20th , 2017: Paper submission deadline for research,

June 30th, 2017: Industry, demonstration, and application/experience papers

August 25th , 2017: Notification of acceptance

September 10th , 2017: Camera-ready copy due

November 14-15, 2017: Conference days

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TOPICS AND AREAS RESEARCH PAPERS

* Life Science Data Modelling
- "Big Data" infrastructure
- Data integration systems
- Data models and standards
- Ontology and its evolution
- Architectures and data management techniques
* Analysing, Indexing, and Querying Life Sciences Datasets
- Linked Open Data
- Machine Learning
- Query formulation, processing and optimization
* Annotating, Matching, and Sharing Life Sciences Datasets
- Data annotation and maintenance
- Ontology and Schema Matching
* Privacy and Provenance of Life Sciences Datasets
- Ethical, legal and social issues
- Data owner sensitive data sharing
- Privacy-preserving data integration and management
- Sharing, updating and propagating data

Industry papers, demos and application/experiences are also welcome to DILS'17. They will be selected according to industry-compliant assessment criteria.
In all cases please refer to the submission procedure:

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of technical rigor and practical relevance to DILS 2017. Three types of papers will be selected:
Full research papers (up to 15 pages)
Short research papers (8 pages)
Industry/application/experience papers (8 pages)
Demos (4 pages)
Papers are to be prepared using LNCS templates and submitted using the EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dils2017

The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI/LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).

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AWARDS

Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper.
Authors of the best accepted papers that address some interesting data quality challenges will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.