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                  Second International Workshop on

         Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Applications

               October 20-23, 2008 -- Barcelona, Spain

                     http://cmlsa2008.mucoms.org/


    CMLSA 2008 will be held in conjunction with the Twenty-Seventh
      International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008).


Life Sciences applications typically involve large volumes of data of
various kinds and a multiplicity of software tools for managing,
analysing and interpreting them. There are many challenging problems in
the processing of life sciences data that require effective support by
novel theories, methods and technologies. Conceptual modelling is the
key for developing high-performance information systems that put these
theories, methods and technologies into practice. The fast growing
interest in life sciences applications calls for special attention on
resource integration and collaborative efforts in information systems
development.

The primary objective of the workshop is to share research experiences
in conceptual modelling for applications in life sciences and to
identify new issues and directions for future research in relevant
areas, including bioinformatics, health informatics, medical and
veterinary informatics. The workshop invites authors to submit original
papers exploring the usage of conceptual modelling ideas and techniques
for developing and improving life sciences databases and information
systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Suggested topics include, but are not limited to (as long as they are
related to new research approaches in the intersection of conceptual
modelling and life sciences):

  * Conceptual modelling for biological and laboratory information
    systems;
  * Conceptual modelling for analysis tools in bioinformatics;
  * Conceptual modelling for health information systems;
  * Conceptual modelling for medical and veterinary information
    systems;
  * Life sciences databases, data exchange and data distribution;
  * Data representation and visualisation;
  * Life sciences ontologies and taxonomies;
  * Data, process and application integration in life sciences;
  * Data warehousing and data mining;
  * Privacy and security in life sciences applications;
  * Electronic health records;
  * Reuse and reengineering of life sciences applications; and
  * Collaborative and open source software development in life
    sciences.


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Formatting Guidelines
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CMLSA 2008 proceedings will be part of the ER 2008 Workshop volume
published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Thus, authors must
submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. The page limit for workshop papers in
LNCS format is 10 pages.

A paper submitted to CMLSA 2008 cannot be under review for any other
workshop, symposium, conference or journal during the time it is
being considered for CMLSA 2008.

Submission Guidelines
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Submission to CMLSA 2008 will be electronically only. Authors are
asked to create a submission system account first. Subsequently,
this account can be used to submit one or more abstracts and upload
corresponding papers.
The online submission system can be accessed via

	http://cmlsa2008.mucoms.org/


IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission:             May 07, 2008
Full paper submission:           May 07, 2008
Author notification:             Jun 04, 2008
Camera-ready paper submission:   Jun 21, 2008
Workshop:                        Oct 20-23, 2008


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Program Committee Chairs
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Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (Deakin University, Australia)
Sven Hartmann (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)

Program Committee
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Isabelle Bichindaritz (University of Washington, USA)
Jake Chen (Indiana University, USA)
Carlo Combi (University of Verona, Italy)
Silke Eckstein (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany)
Amarnath Gupta (University of California San Diego, USA)
Dirk Labudde (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Dirk Langemann (University of Luebeck, Germany)
Sebastian Link (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Huiqing Liu (University of Georgia, USA)
Victor Maojo (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
Maria Mirto (University of Salento, Italy)
Roque Marin Morales (University of Murcia, Spain)
Fabio Porto (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
Allan Rodrigo (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Keun Ho Ryu (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
Amandeep S. Sidhu (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Marie-Noelle Terrasse (University of Burgundy, France)
Thodoros Topaloglou (University of Toronto, Canada)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Esteban Zimanyi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Publicity Chair and Contact
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Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
email: MKirchberg@i2r.a-star.edu.sg