Topics of the workshop

BMWT 2007 will be part of events of the WI-IAT conference and will be arranged for a date during November 2-5. This workshop will cover interesting topics of applications of intelligent Web technologies in bio-medicine, including Web Ontology, Semantic Web, Web Usage Mining, Web Search and Intelligent Agents. Original contributions will be solicited in the following subjects (but not necessarily limited to):

• Web information extraction and wrapper generation

• Applications of Web taxonomies and ontologies in bio-medicine

• Web-based service-oriented architecture in bio-medicine

• Integration and maintenance of bio-medicine taxonomies and ontologies

• Web content and structure mining , Web Information retrieval and filtering

• Web-based data collection, curation and analysis

•  Text mining for metadata creation

• Multimedia contents in bio-medicine on the Web

• Web search engines, meta-search engines and inference engine

• Semantic Web

• Intelligent Web agents

• Knowledge community formation and support

This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to foster the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of emerging techniques on intelligent Web technology in bio-medicine applications. The workshop will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of scalable, effective and intelligent Web-based information systems for the ever-increasing needs of bio-medicine applications.

Type of workshop

The workshop will run as a half-day workshop for approximately 5 hours with 1~2 keynote speeches and 8~12 paper presentations.

Important dates

   July 15, 2007 (extended) : Due date for full workshop papers submission
   August 1, 2007: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
   August 3, 2007: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
   August 17, 2007: Camera-ready of accepted papers
   November 2, 2007: Workshops

Paper submission guideline

(1)   All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity by at least two reviews for each paper.

(2)   Please use WI-IAT 2007 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission and review process. Submission is now open. Submit your paper now!

(3)   The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). As template please use the IEEE-CS 2-column format as shown here. Download style files and templates here.

(4)   Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the Society Press.

(5)   We will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year. (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

Program committee

Howard CT Ho, IBM Almaden, USA

Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Wen-Hsiang Lu, NCKU, Taiwan

Rong Pan, HKUST, Hong Kong, China

Yue Pan, IBM China, China

Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng, NCKU, Taiwan

Samson Tu, Stanford, USA

Ueng-Cheng Yang, NYMU, Taiwan

Organizing committee

Chun-Nan Hsu (Co-Chair)
Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw

Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng (Co-Chair)
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw

Wen-Hsiang Lu (Co-Chair)
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw