Below is our tentative program for the AAAI-98 workshop in Knowledge
Sharing Across Biological and Medical Knowledge Based Systems. I am
posting this program because we still have several openings for anyone
who may be interested in participating in the workshop but not in doing
one of the presentations. One of our primary goals is to provide a
broad base for discussion and interchange of ideas, and we would like to
encourage anyone with such an interest to register for the workshop.
Since participation is by invitation only and requires pre-registration,
I need to submit the list of invitees to AAAI by April 1. If you would
like to participate in this workshop, please send me email expressing
your interest (and perhaps a bit of background about yourself) by April
1. The information we need for invitees includes: email address,
surface mail address, phone number, and fax number. Information about
the conference may be found at
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/1998/aaai98.html.
Session 1: Representation and Reasoning
* A) Workshop Goals and Objectives
B) Biomedical Knowledge Based Systems
Development at Glaxo Wellcome
(Dhiraj Pathak and Gary Merrill, Glaxo
Wellcome Inc.)
* An Ontological Engineering Methodology for
Part-Whole Reasoning in Medicine
(U. Hahn, S. Schulz, and M. Romacker,
Freiburg University)
* Empirical Methods of Relationship Discovery
and Their Role in Development and Integration
of Knowledge Organization Structures
(Carol Bean, National Library of Medicine)
* Putting Flesh On the Bones: Issues That Arise In
Creating Anatomical Knowledge Bases With Rich
Relational Structure
(Fritz Lehmann and Doug Foxvog, Cycorp Inc.)
* Data Learning: Understanding Biological Data
(V. Brusic, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research; J. Wilkins, University of Melbourne;
C. Stanyon, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research; and J Zelezikow, La Trobe
University)
Session 2: Complexity and Integration
* Problems in Heterogeneous Knowledge Source
Integration: TraumaGEN and the Metathesaurus
(Terrence Harvey, University of Delaware)
* KEGG and DBGET/LinkDB: Integration of
Biological Relationships in Divergent Molecular
Biology Data
(W. Fujibuchi, K. Sato, H. Ogata, S. Goto, and
M. Kanehisa, Kyoto University)
* Addressing Biological Complexity to Enable
Knowledge Sharing
(D. Jones, P. Visser, and R. Paton, University
of Liverpool)
* Self-Organizing Modelling for Transdermal Delivery
Drug Models
(Francisco Torrens, University of Valencia)
--
Gary H. Merrill / Principal Consultant, International Advanced
Technologies
[Views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily
those of GlaxoWellcome Inc.]
