Workshops

• Overview
• IDAMAP-2005: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology
• Biomedical Ontology Engineering

Overview

Follow the link in each workshop to see more details. Workshops will be held on Sunday 24th July 2005. Workshops will last all day, starting at 09:00 so it only possible to attend one of them.

The submission of papers, deadlines, etc, is entirely in the hands of the workshop organisers and you should consult the workshop web site for details.

Register for workshops at the same time as you register for the main conference. It is possible to register for a workshop without attending the main conference, but an additional charge will be levied as a contribution to conference overheads.

IDAMAP-2005, a one day Workshop on intelligent data analysis in medicine and pharmacology, will be held at King's College Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, during the AIME 2005 Conference. This is the tenth IDAMAP Workshop: the former ones were held in Budapest in 1996, Nagoya in 1997, Brighton in 1998, Washington DC in 1999, Berlin in 2000, London in 2001, Lyon in 2002, Cyprus in 2003, and Stanford in 2004.

The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data mining, temporal abstraction, machine learning, and data visualization.

Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion.

In order to increase their functionality, biomedical terminologies are increasingly being re-engineered as ontologies. This re-engineering is being catalysed and enabled by both description logics and philosophy. However, whilst good logic and philosophy may be necessary to guarantee the success of this re-engineering, they may not be sufficient.

This AIME 2005 workshop, supported by the EU Network of Excellence 'SemanticMining', will bring together researchers across biomedical informatics to discuss a range of practical ontology engineering issues other than those relating to description logic or philosophy. Major planned themes include ontology quality assurance, re-use, collaborative authoring, end-user interfaces and inter-rater variability. Noting that the two halves of the biomedical community are increasingly coming together in the study of phenotype/genotype correlations, the workshop will also consider the extent to which common ontology engineering solutions are required.