Call for Papers

SWH invites submissions of original research, practical experiences, evaluation results, or novel approaches and applications. Papers submitted should be at most ten (10) pages long (including all references and figures). In addition, we welcome technical summaries of previous research relevant to the workshop as short paper submissions of up to eight (8) pages long (including all references and figures). Papers of this kind outline work of the authors that has already been published in other venues, and highlight the relevant future directions. Finally, we accept position, outrageous idea and vision papers of up to six (6) pages long (including all references and figures). Submissions should have their type mentioned within, as a title footnote (i.e., technical, summary or position paper). Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF documents and be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A post-workshop report with the roadmap of the involved research challenges is foreseen to be published in SIGMOD Record.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ontologies and data models on the health domain
• Semantic integration of heterogeneous health data sources
• Wearable and sensor data integration with health data
• Web-scale & cloud based health data management systems
• NoSQL & Graph databases for health data management
• Semantic search & reasoning over health data
• Recommendations for health data
• Exploratory search of health data via query reformulation, auto-completion, type ahead search, and approximate query-answering
• Health data exploration through visualization
• Analytics over large-scale health data
• Personal health apps
• Data quality, profiling, and uncertainty of health data
• Data provenance and trust of health data
• Data versioning, evolution, change detection and representation
• Generation and aggregation of health semantics
• Natural language processing and text mining techniques for health data
• Novel techniques for security, privacy and sharing of health data
• Innovative use of semantic technologies for health data
• Knowledge graph construction on health data

Submission Web site:

Submissions will be accepted only through the submission site EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swh2019

Important Dates:

Paper submission: July 25, 2019

Authors notification: July 18, 2019

Camera ready: July 29, 2019

Workshop date: October 26, 2019

Location: Decima Glen (260-310), Level 3