Guidelines

Paper submission

Submission Guidelines

Research papers (Deadline: March 1, 2012)

Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor, experience reports and demonstrations of relevance to data integration in the life sciences. DILS 2012 invites two types of research papers:

    1. Long papers (up to 16 pages) -- Present results of original research
    2. Short papers (up to 8 pages) -- Present ongoing research

(Papers describing commercial solutions are welcome as long as sufficient detail of the problem and its technical solution are provided.)

The proceedings of DILS will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Detailed instructions for preparing the camera-ready copy of your paper are available in Springer's LNCS Author and Volume Editor Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0).

The authors of the best papers will be recognized at the conference and will be published in the Journal on Data Semantics.

NIH Compliance with Springer

Authors who would like to have more information about NIH compliance with Springer should read this webpage.

Posters and demonstrations

In addition to research papers, DILS welcomes posters and demonstrations. A one-page abstract should be submitted. Posters and demos will be presented in the poster/demo session at the conference. The poster/demo abstracts are not part of the proceedings, but will be published on the DILS web site.

LNBI

As for previous DILS conferences, accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI/LNBI (Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) series.

All papers must be previously unpublished and may not be under parallel review at any other journal or conference.

Instructions for authors

Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines (abstract: 70-150 words). All submissions will be handled electronically. Acceptance of each submission will be based by the expertise of reviewers.

Submission is electronic via the EasyChair submission site is available here