CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 

Discovery Informatics Symposium:

AI Takes a Science-Centered View on Big Data

 

November 15–17, 2013, Arlington, VA (USA)

AAAI Fall Symposium Series

 

Program available at: http://www.discoveryinformaticsinitiative.org/dis2013

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration deadline: October 18, 2013, through https://www.regonline.com/fss13.

Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel cut-off date: October 24, 2013.

Symposium: November 15-17, 2013

 

DESCRIPTION

Discovery Informatics focuses on intelligent systems aimed at accelerating discovery, particularly in science but also from any data-rich domain. It is a generalization of scientific informatics work (e.g., medical-, bio-, eco- or geo-informatics) that seeks to apply principles of intelligent computing and information systems in order to understand, automate, improve, and innovate any aspects of discovery processes. A range of AI research is directly relevant including process representation and workflows; intelligent interfaces; causal reasoning; machine learning; knowledge representation and engineering; semantic web; advanced visualization toolkits and social computing.

 

The application of AI approaches to assist in scientific discovery is an open ended knowledge-driven challenge with a very high potential impact. This is especially true in this era of big data, which provides the theme of this symposium.

 

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Richard J. Doyle, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

- Michel Dumontier, Stanford University.

- Haym Hirsh, Cornell University.

- David Jensen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

- Peter Karp, SRI International.

- Claire Monteleoni, George Washington University.

- Zoran Obradovic, Temple University.

- Christopher Re, Stanford University.

- Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago.

- Kiri L. Wagstaff, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

 

ACCEPTED PAPERS

- "Finna: A Paragraph Prioritization System for Biocuration in the Neurosciences".

Kyle Ambert, Aaron Cohen, Gully Burns, Eilis Boudreau and Kemal Sonmez.

- "Forensic Reasoning about Paleoclimatology". Elizabeth Bradley, Laura Rassbach de Vesine, Kenneth Anderson, Marek Zreda and Christopher Zweck. 

- "ELSEWeb meets SADI: Supporting Data-to-Model Integration for Biodiversity Forecasting". Nicholas Del Rio, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Deana Pennington, Karl Benedict, Aimee Stewart and Cj Grady.

- "Linkitup: Link Discovery for Research Data". Rinke Hoekstra and Paul Groth.

- "Capturing Data Analytics Expertise with Visualization in Workflows". David Kale, Samuel Di, Yan Liu and Yolanda Gil.

- "MetaShare: From Data Management Plans to Knowledge-Based Systems". Leonardo Salayandia, Deana Pennington, Ann Gates and Francisco Osuna.

- "Creating an Urban Legend: A System for Electrophysiology Data Management and Exploration". Anita De Waard, Jeremy Alder, Shawn Burton, Richard C. Gerkin, Mark Harviston, David Marques, Shreejoy J. Tripathy and Nathaniel N. Urban.

 

ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS

- "Computational Ideation in Scientific Discovery". Ashok K. Goel.

- "Exploration Using Signatures in Annotation Graph Datasets". Louiqa Raschid, Guillermo Palma, Maria-Esther Vidal, Andreas Thor.

 

CO-CHAIRS

Gully APC Burns, University of Southern California

Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California

Yan Liu, University of Southern California

Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, University of Texas at El Paso