reminder: Call for Posters: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Conference 2015,

2015-09-28 Thread Robert Stevens
will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015";>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015. A light review by members of the organising committee for SWAT4LS will be used to decide upon acceptance. J

reminder: Call for Posters: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Conference 2015,

2015-09-28 Thread Robert Stevens
will be handled via the EasyChair submission system. href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015";>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015. A light review by members of the organising committee for SWAT4LS will be used to decide upon acceptance. J

Call for Posters: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) Conference 2015,

2015-09-16 Thread Robert Stevens
bmission system. href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015";>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015. A light review by members of the organising committee for SWAT4LS will be used to decide upon acceptance. James Malone and Robert Stevens The SWAT4L

Reminder: Approaching deadline for abstracts and papers for SWAT4LS 2015

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Stevens
Chair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015. All details found via http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/ Robert Stevens and James Malone - Scientific Chairs SWAT4LS 2015 Andrea Splendiani, General Chair M Scott Marshall, Adrian Paschke, Albert Burger,

CFP: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2015

2015-06-01 Thread Robert Stevens
BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics. All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2015. All details found via http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/ Robert Stevens and James Malone - Scientific Chairs SWAT4LS 2015

Funded attendance at Manchester Family History: Advanced OWL Tutorial

2015-05-05 Thread Robert Stevens
funding email Robert Stevens (robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk). For enquiries about the study email Markel Vigo (markel.v...@manchester.ac.uk). -- Professor Robert Stevens Bio-health Informatics Group School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester United Kingdom M13

Manchester Advanced OWL tutorial: Family History

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Stevens
nominals in class expressions; 9.Appreciate some of the limits of OWL 2; 10.Discover how many people in the Stevens family are called "James". The tutorial is led by Professor Robert Stevens <http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Estevensr> and run by a team of experienced OWL users and

Introduction to Ontologies in OWL Tutorial 02/03 December 2013.

2013-10-21 Thread Robert Stevens
Malley (kieran.omal...@manchester.ac.uk) prior to November 25 2013. Payment options will be returned to you following reservation. For further information please visit the website at: http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ -- Professor Robert Stevens Bio-health Informatics Group School of Computer S

Re: Wow....

2013-02-05 Thread Robert Stevens
030827 M -- Robert Stevens Reader in Bio-Health Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester United Kingdom M13 9PL robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com KBO

Re: Stanford-bound!

2013-01-21 Thread Robert Stevens
st Group http://dumontierlab.com -- Robert Stevens Reader in Bio-Health Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester United Kingdom M13 9PL robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com KBO

Call for Participation: Sepublica 2013 -an ESWC Workshop

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Stevens
Committee *** Alexander Garcia Castro, alexgarc...@gmail.com, Florida State University Christoph LANGE, allegris...@gmail.com, University of Birmingham Phillip Lord, phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk, University of Newcastle Robert Stevens, robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk, University of Manchester -- Robert

Call to Host International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2013

2012-05-16 Thread Robert Stevens
broad range of the biomedical ontology community; * That the hosts will use the ICBO steering committee to help the success of the conference. The ICBO Steering Committee -- Robert Stevens Reader in BioHealth Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester

Re: reasoning on gene ontology

2012-04-07 Thread robert Stevens
ing DAML+OIL. In 8th Pacific Symposium on biocomputing (PSB), pages 624-636, 2003. which we did a bit more systmatically in Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Alan L. Rector, and Robert Stevens. Enriching the gene ontology via the dissection of labels using the on

Call for Participation- International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)

2012-04-01 Thread robert Stevens
te at contact.icbo2...@gmail.com *** Organizing Committee *** General Chairs: Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Robert Stevens (Manchester, UK) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) Early Career Consortium Chair: Ludger Jansen (Rostock, Germany) So

ICBO 2012: Call for Software Demos and Poster Abstracts

2012-03-18 Thread robert Stevens
tps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo-2012, track 'ICBO 2012 -- Poster Abstracts'. *** Contact *** For more information or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at contact.icbo2...@gmail.com *** Organizing Committee *** General Chairs: Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam, The Net

re-post: An Experiment in ontology verbalisation

2012-03-01 Thread robert Stevens
($30) *** Please circulate this request to anyone you think may be interested *** Robert Stevens Reader in bioHealth Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester United Kingdom M13 9PL robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk Blog: http

An experiment in ontology verbalisation

2012-02-28 Thread robert Stevens
3rd Prize: £20 ($30) *** Please circulate this request to anyone you think may be interested *** Robert Stevens Reader in bioHealth Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester United Kingdom M13 9PL robert.stev...@manchester.ac

ICBO/FOIS EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM

2012-02-10 Thread robert Stevens
submit an application once the funds have been secured. CONTACT For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact Ludger Jansen (ludger.jan...@uni-rostock.de). Robert Stevens Reader in bioHealth Informatics School of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road

Final call for submission: International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies

2012-01-24 Thread robert Stevens
information or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at contact.icbo2...@gmail.com *** Organizing Committee *** General Chairs: Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Robert Stevens (Manchester, UK) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) Early Career

Second call for submissions: International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) 2012

2011-12-15 Thread robert Stevens
Robert Stevens (Manchester, UK) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) Early Career Consortium Chair: Ludger Jansen (Rostock, Germany) Software Demonstration Chair: Trish Whetzel (Stanford, USA) Proceedings Chair: Janna Hastings (Geneva, Switzerland) Local Chair: Stefan

Re: Call for Submissions: International conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2012

2011-10-08 Thread robert Stevens
There will be a call to a special issue associated with ICBO2012. - Original Message - From: Vladimir Mironov To: robert Stevens Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Call for Submissions: International conference on

Call for Submissions: International conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2012

2011-10-05 Thread robert Stevens
contact.icbo2...@gmail.com *** Organizing Committee *** General Chairs: Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Robert Stevens (Manchester, UK) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) Early Career Consortium Chair: Ludger Jansen (Rostock, Germany) Software

Re: Post Doctoral Researcher Position at DERI Galway

2010-09-05 Thread Robert Stevens
Fox Domain for Health Care and Life Sciences DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland E-Mail: ronan.fox AT deri.org ========= Robert Stevens Reader in BioHealth Informatics School of Com

CFP reminder: Databases and Ontologies Track at ISMB

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Stevens
Call for Papers Closing in One Week www.iscb.org/ismb2008/sub_papers.php Paper Submission Deadline January 16, 2008 Robert Stevens and I are co-chairing the databases and ontologies session and we invite you to submit papers on these themes to help us build a stimulating session. We look forwa

Re: [Fwd: ISMB 2008 Call for Special Session Proposals + More ISCB Conference News]

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Stevens
I think the bio-ontologies SIG and Semantic Web would intersect. One can do SW without ontology and one can do ontology without SW. I think the data integration idea is a much better one. I think it a mistake to have too narrow a technology focus. The ISMB folk definitely like to see some

Re: ISMB Bio-Ontologies Meeting

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Stevens
Just to clarify; a selection of papers from the day will be invited to puvblished extended versions in BMC. there is a puclicaiton cost. At 20:39 01/05/2007, Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Matthias et al, It looks like there is some interest in writing a group paper describing the demo work that is c

thenth Bio_ontologies Meeting 2007

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Stevens
STER ABSTRACTS The long-standing ISMB Bio-Ontologies SIG is in its tenth consecutive year. This year the workshop will have a celebratory and reflective discussion on "Bio-Ontologies: ten years past and looking to the future". Program chairs: Robert Stevens (1), Phillip Lor

Re: [biont] Nice wikipedia page on ontology

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Stevens
fusion) but to the formalism (formality of the ontology as you refer to it) that is embedded in the framework. I do not disagree that this page can be improved further (which is the purpose and strongpoint of wikipedia), but explaining in laymans terms what a formal ontology is about is a chal

RE: [biont] Nice wikipedia page on ontology

2007-01-24 Thread Robert Stevens
wikipedia page might need more than one definitions of "formal ontology" to reflect the nature of these concepts. Yong -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Decraene Sent: Wed 1/24/2007 10:03 AM To: Robert Stevens; Phillip Lord; Alan Ruttenberg Cc: public-semwe

Re: [biont] Nice wikipedia page on ontology

2007-01-24 Thread Robert Stevens
'd be inclined to agree with Phil. I don't where the bit about "algorithms" has come from. The other mistake, I think, is not to make the distinction between formality of language for representaiton and the formality of the ontology itself. The latter is, I think, a matter of the distinctions m

ISMB Ontologies and Databases

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Stevens
Dear Friends, Helen Parkinson and Robert Stevens are chairing the Ontologies and Databases area at ISMB this year. We would like a really good set of papers to review and select a very strong session. We therefore encourage you to submit papers. we know there is a lot of interesting work

Re: OWL vs RDF

2006-10-27 Thread Robert Stevens
006, at 3:54 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Robert" == Robert Stevens < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:   Robert> There's another answer of using the reasoner by building   Robert> your ontology to take advantage of its capabilities. the   Robert> conceptual lego approach re

Re: OWL vs RDF

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Stevens
There's another answer of using the reasoner by building your ontology to take advantage of its capabilities. the conceptual lego approach relies on the reasoner. Anecdotally, I've managed to miss out subsumption relationships by hand in ontologies as small as a dozen classes. Also, when bui

RE: Performance issues with OWL Reasoners => subclass vs instance-of

2006-09-14 Thread Robert Stevens
Chris is right, but the IS itself has no view on the matter. it does, I believe, play some tricks inside making instances classes to do the reasoning. What the user sees are instances. When we use the IS to classify proteins, we have a class "p53" and we translate all the genes in a genome in

Fwd: Re: Performance issues with OWL Reasoners (Was RE: Playing with sets in OWL...)

2006-09-14 Thread Robert Stevens
sets in OWL...) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:53:13 +0100 To: Robert Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) X-Authenticated-Sender: Ian R Horrocks from spc1-rawt1-0-0-cust718.bagu.broadband.ntl.com ([192.168.1.95]) [86.1.138.207]:50357 X-Authenticated-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Playing with sets in OWL...

2006-09-12 Thread Robert Stevens
vestment we make now will lead to greater and more effective sharing of knowledge, and to surprising discoveries enabled by making it much easier to get, understand, and integrate knowledge/data than it currently is. -Alan Dr. Robert Stevens Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science Univer

Re: Size estimates of current LS space (and Introductions)

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Stevens
asoner can infer from the description that two reactions are the same - even if they have different identifiers, or if in the database the left and right side are reversed. Moreover, the reasoners can be used to find inconsistencies within (and across) the databases. Work explored by Jeremy and Al

Re: scientific publishing task force update

2006-06-13 Thread Robert Stevens
I think this is good. Using upper levels to guide towards good choices of properties is very useful. robert. At 13:29 13/06/2006, Matthias Samwald wrote: > One small, but significant, dislike of the bio-ontology community > for SUMO (as used by Solditova and King) is that it isn't really >

Re: scientific publishing task force update

2006-06-13 Thread Robert Stevens
The range of upper ontology reflects the different philosophical viewpoints on the nature of what exists in the world. Different upper ontologies make different distinctions. Most of the upper ontologies have a great deal in common, but different philosophies make different distinction and ev