KR4HC 2023

Knowledge representation in health care is a productive area of theories, standards, models, systems, and applications, with an active community of researchers and developers with no dedicated international specific event for this community to meet. Since 2009, the KR4HC workshop has been organized year after year (with the exception of 2020 and 2022) with a great level of participation, excellent quality of the works presented, and top quality publications of the best selected papers as Springer LNCS series books.

As it was observed in the previous editions of KR4HC, we expect that this new thirteenth edition of KR4HC could bring together a part of the KR in medicine community to present and discuss new ideas and technologies, as well as, to serve as a platform to discuss the progress of the field. Due to the growing interest of mixing machine learning and knowledge representation technologies to address new biomedical challenges, KR4HC 2023 will also welcome quality works on the challenging combination of machine learning technology and KR systems.

We dedicate this workshop to the late David Riano from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. David was one of the key members of the AI in medicine research community, active researcher, and dedicated contributor to our research community. He was one of the brains behind a series of the KR4HC workshops and a Scientific Program Chair of AIME 2019 Conference. There will be a David Riano Best Paper Award for the workshop, every two years. The best paper will be selected by the workshop chairs, based on the ratings provided to the papers by the Program Committee reviewers (3 reviews per paper). The ratings will consider: relevance to the workshop's topics, originality, technical validity and strength, and clarity of presentation).