International Workshop: Database Technology for Life Sciences and Medicine, DBLM 2011
In conjunction with 22st DEXA Conference, August 29 - September 2, 2011, Toulouse, France

Call for Papers

Life sciences and medicine are very data intensive disciplines. Modern technologies such as micro-arrays, high-throughput mass-spectrometry, high-resolution imaging, and huge literature databases provide new challenges for scientists and medical practitioners. There has never been more potentially available information to study biological systems like cells, organs, or patients. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into useful information supporting scientific progress and/or patient management. Major challenges for research in the database community include but are not limited to:

* Data quality, selection and integration,
* Database-supported process management in healthcare,
* Electronic patient record,
* Design of information systems and data warehouses for biomedical applications,
* Mining biological and medical data: clustering, classification, rule-mining,
* Integrative mining of heterogeneous data types,
* Integration of data mining primitives into biological and medical databases,
* Databases and data mining for systems biology and personalized medicine,
* Biological and medical image processing and -retrieval,
* Privacy in data management and data mining.


Paper Submission

Papers should be submitted in PDF format, with maximum length five (5) pages, following IEEE Conference Publishing Service (CPS) guidelines. Please submit your papers using ConfDriver Conference Management System http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2011/

Important Dates

* Submission deadline: May, 2nd, 2011,
* Notification of acceptance: May, 23rd 2011,
* Camera ready deadline: end of May.

Proceedings

All accepted papers of DBLM will be published in combined workshop proceedings by IEEE.



Organizer

* Claudia Plant, Technische Universität München, Florida State University