General Information
The focus of our 2023 conference is "The role of Ontologies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning".
Important dates:
- Conference Dates: August 28th to September 1st (Monday-Friday)
- Workshops/tutorials: August 28-29, 2023
- Main conference: August 30 - September 01, 2023
- Journal Track submission deadline: March 31st.
- Workshops and Tutorials submission deadline:
April 3 April
10, 2023. Notification May 3, 2023
- Software demo submission deadline: June 15, 2023. Notification: June 29, 2023
- ICBO Conference Papers and Abstracts deadline:
May 31 June 07, 2023. Notification June 29 July 03, 2023
- Workshops and tutorials take place on site in conjunction with ONTOBRAS 2023
ISB Travel Award
The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is offering a travel fellowship to ICBO in Brazil.
- The travel award will help fund travel to Brazil for presenting a paper/poster relevant to the area
of
biocuration.
- Travel award amount: up to 1500 CHF (Swiss Francs) (approximately $1600 USD or 1500 Euros).
- Award for early career researchers (students and postdocs) with interest in the area of biocuration.
- Type of presentation priority: 1) papers, 2) poster.
- Recipients must acknowledge the travel award from ISB during the presentation.
Details about ISB
ICBO Conference Proceeding Publication Requirements
All conference submissions accepted will be published in the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings as part of the new IAOA series.
An example from a past conference can be seen here
In order for this to happen, the following requirements must be satisfied.
- All submissions should be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and should follow the
CEUR-ART-template.docx file, single column.
- Ensure that the conference name, date, and place, and email addresses and ORCIDs of all authors are added to the footnote on the lower left of the first page.
- Note that the template provided in the link above already includes the standardized copyright footer for ICBO 2023 with the conference name, date, and place. You only need to fill in the EMAIL and ORCID information for each author.
- All papers for ICBO MUST have an accompanying signed Author Agreement to Publish a Contribution as Open-Access on CEUR-WS.org prepared by the
corresponding author. Please download one of the ICBO 2023 customized form bellow:
- AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (NTP): Authors shall use this form if they included no copyrighted third party material in their paper text (or accompanying sources, datasets). This is the right variant in most cases.
- AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP): Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third party material in their paper or accompanying material. They must then also attach a copy of the permission by the third party to use this material in the signed author agreement!
- Fill in the fields on the AUTHOR-AGREEMENT form, print it out, sign it in ink (by hand), then scan or photograph the form and both upload it on easychair and send it to icbo2023{at}gmail.com
with a subject heading that reads "Author Agreement for submission PAPER [PAPER-ID]".
- Do NOT digitally sign the pdf, as CEUR-WS.org will not accept it. CEUR-WS.org allows an alternative method to provide a signature if you are unable to print the form, as shown here: http://ceur-ws.org/agreement-paper1.jpg
- Update your camera-ready paper on easychair.
Workshops, Tutorials and Demos
Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Demos
Workshops
We are specifically looking for following topics for workshops:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Ontology aware machine learning or AI
- Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
- Infectious and immune-mediated disease
- FAIR ontology harmonization
- Ontology Governance and Interoperability
- Other topics are welcome
Tutorials
We are specifically looking for following topics for tutorials:
- Introductory Domain Ontology Building (using top-level ontology) tutorial
- Ontology Building with OBO Foundry tutorial
- Ontology Governance and Interoperability
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
- Other topics are welcome
Software demo
Specifically looking for demos on ontology supported data curation, ontology supported
semantic search UI/UX design.
- 15-30 minute demos
- Other topics are welcome
Workshops and Tutorials accepted
Take a look at ICBO 2023 conference proposals accepted here
Call for ICBO Conference Papers and Abstracts
Submission deadline: May 31 June 07, 2023. Notification June 29
July 03, 2023
The following paper categories are welcome:
Topics of Interest
We are particularly interested in topics related to "The role of Ontologies in Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning", but other areas of interest for ICBO 2023 include, but are not limited to:
- Big data, data science, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence,
decision support
systems, Digital twins
- Graph database, knowledge graphs
- Natural Language Processing (NLP), computational linguistics, linguistic ontologies
applied to text
processing
- Data integration, interoperability
- Semantic Web: Modeling and Information retrieval ontology-based,Linked open data
(LOD) applications
- Knowledge organization, Conceptual Modeling
- Biocuration
- Domain ontologies (Health, Smart Cities, Government, Education and others)
- Genetics, phenotypes, and diseases
- COVID-19
- Social determinants of health (SDOH)
- Electronic health records
- Industrial applications
- Plant and agricultural applications
- Climate change
- Ontology for e-science, life sciences, e-business, multimedia and cultural heritage
- Ontology Engineering: Methodologies, techniques and practices, composition,
modularity, evaluation
and validation, patterns and anti-patterns
- Ontology governance
- Ontologies and the FAIR data principles
- Ontology tools: visualization, building, reasoning, evaluation, discovery of
knowledge
Poster preparation guidelines
- Posters session will be just in-person.
- Posters should be built in A0 paper size, vertically (portrait) orientation, paper
or fabric material.
- Download the guidelines and instructions for the poster (pdf).
- Download the poster template (pptx).
- As part of the conference program, each poster presenter MUST give a brief flash talk of approximately 2 minutes during the designated session.
- You can provide only one slide to display the title of your poster, the names of authors and coauthors, and the affiliations.
- YOU MUST upload this slide here until August 24.
Papers presentations guidelines
Presentation Logistics both in-person and online
- Prepare your presentation to fit within the allocated time slot.
- Rehearse your presentation to ensure you stay within the time limit.
- Presentation Time:
- Full Papers: Your presentation is allocated a total of 25 minutes, which includes an additional 5 minutes designated for Q&A.
- Short Papers: You have a total of 15 minutes for your presentation, with an additional 5 minutes allotted for the Q&A segment.
- Sessions will follow the conference agenda in sequence.
- Technical Setup (in-person):
- Familiarize yourself with the presentation equipment and layout in advance.
- Test your presentation materials to ensure they work properly.
- For in-person presentations, we will be utilizing local computers running Windows and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- To ensure a seamless presentation experience, we kindly request the following:
- Kindly send us your presentation (PPTX) at least 24 hours before your scheduled session. OR
- As an additional option, you may also bring your presentation on a flash drive or USB media. During the interval breaks, you can transfer your presentation to the local computer to expedite the process if needed.
- This enables us to pre-load and test your presentation on the conference system, while also contributing to a seamless transition and preventing any disruptions to the presentation schedule.
Virtual presentations guidelines
Warm greetings to you all as we draw closer to the much-anticipated ICBO 2023 conference. In preparation for the event, we would like to furnish you with crucial guidelines and details for your virtual paper presentation.
Virtual Presentation Logistics:
- Your presentation will be conducted in a virtual setting via Zoom.
- The Zoom link for your session will be distributed to you by August 27th.
- You will be able to access the Zoom session using the provided link, without the need to create a Zoom account.
- For a smoother experience, we recommend downloading and installing the Zoom Desktop app in advance. You can download the app from the official Zoom website
- We kindly ask that you to:
- To connect to the Zoom room at least 15 minutes before your Paper Session.
- To ensure a stable internet connection and are prepared to commence your presentation promptly at the start of your session.
Upload a Backup Presentation Video (Mandatory Requirement):
- We require all presenters to submit a mandatory backup video.
- This backup video serves as a safety net in case of any unforeseen local technical issues during the live session.
- It's important to emphasize that the video backup is solely intended as a contingency measure and will not replace your live virtual presentation.
- The video should not exceed 1GB in size.
- YOU MUST upload this video here at least 72 hours before your session.
Program Committee ICBO 2023
- Adrien Barton - The French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Alan Ruttenberg - The State University of New York at Buffalo
- Alexander D. Diehl - Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo
- Amanda Damasceno De Souza - Universidade FUMEC
- Andrey Soares - University of Colorado
- Asiyah Lin - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Barry Smith - The State University of New York at Buffalo
- Bjoern Peters - La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
- Carlos H. Marcondes - Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Chris Stoeckert - University of Pennsylvania
- Christiano P. Pessanha - Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Claudenir Fonseca - Free University of Bolzano
- Darren Natale - The Georgetown Faculty
- Eduardo Felipe - Universidade Federal de Itajubá
- Fernanda Farinelli - Universidade de Brasilia
- Fernando Cruz - Universidade de Brasilia
- Flavio S Correa Da Silva - Universidade de São Paulo
- Fred Freitas - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Fumiaki Toyoshima - IRIT
- Gabriela Henning - INTEC (CONICET-UNL)
- Guylerme Figueiredo - Petrobrás S.A.
- Jeanne Louize Emygdio - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
- Jeff Otte - University at Buffalo
- Jie Zheng - University of Pennsylvania
- João Lima - Senado Federal
- João Paulo A. Almeida - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
- John Beverley - The State University of New York at Buffalo
- Jose M Parente De Oliveira - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
- Lais Salvador - Universidade Federal da Bahia
- Leo Obrst - MITRE
- Luan Garcia - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Luis M. Machado - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra
- Luiz Olavo Bonino Da Silva Santos - University of Twente
- Mara Abel - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Marcio Bezerra Da Silva - University of Brazilia
- Maria Das Graças da Silva Teixeira - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
- Mauricio Almeida - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Phillip Lord - Newcastle University
- Pierre Grenon - National Center for Ontological Research
- Rafael Peñaloza - University of Milano-Bicocca
- Randi Vita - La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
- Renata Guizzardi - University of Twente
- Sana Debbech - IRT Railenium
- Sarah Alghamdi - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- Silvio Gonnet - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional/Facultad Regional Santa Fe
- William Duncan - University of Florida
- Yongqun He - University of Michigan
Program Committee Ontobras 2023
Journal of Biomedical Semantics ICBO Thematic Series Option
Journal Track submission deadline: March 31st.
- In partnership with the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, manuscripts submitted to
the ICBO Thematic
Series
of this journal will be published immediately after acceptance and presented in the
main ICBO
conference
following acceptance.
- For this track, we suggest submission by March 31st at the latest for full
consideration for the
conference.
- Later submission is possible, but the authors bear the risk that the review will not
be available in
time
for conference presentation.
- Journal track manuscripts are submitted directly to the Journal of Biomedical
Semantics following
the
journal submission guidelines. Authors must select the ICBO thematic series during
the submission
process.
Further inquiries
Please direct all further questions to icbo2023{at}gmail.com or ontobras2023{at}gmail.com