Call for Papers: SWAT4HCLS 2027 Conference on Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences in Basel
Hi All! We warmly invite you to submit your recent work to the 2027 edition of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences conference (SWAT4HCLS 2027) which will be held in Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭 from 1 - 4 Feb 2027. SWAT4HCLS will publish work in the form of papers, posters, and demonstrations on original research, data, semantic models, and application experiences. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following: Using semantic and web technologies for Health Care and Life Sciences
Examples and recent advances from bioimaging, agriculture, food science, biodiversity, molecular biology, translational and personalised medicine, drug development, clinical trials, RWE and healthcare, specific diseases (rare, undiagnosed, infectious, oncology)
Examples of querying, validation, visualisation, federated analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, knowledge graphs, using FAIR data, use of personal health data, clinical intelligence from electronic health records
Graph-based applications of LLM RAG in HCLS
SPARQL query and data model editing support tools with LLMs
Demonstrations of repurposing tools, including previously published Semantic Web tools
Demonstration of trans-disciplinary collaboration and citizen science
Semantic web methods and tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Explainable AI, neural symbolic reasoning, knowledge-driven machine learning and data mining, Large Language Models, NLP and text mining
Interoperability of knowledge representation (e.g. GBIF, OMOP, FHIR, GA4GH, OBO Foundry, mapping standards), ontologies, rules
Data stewardship, provenance, trust and reproducibility, sustainability, adoption (including failures!), data publishing
FAIR-based federated architecture, semantic workflow technologies, person-centric and privacy preserving infrastructure
Types of Submission The following types of submissions for SWAT4HCLS 2027 are invited,
Long papers (between 10 and 12 pages plus references)
Short papers (up to 5 pages plus references)
Posters and Demonstrations (up to 2 pages plus references)
Tutorials (up to 5 pages)
Important Dates Submission Deadlines (AOE Timezone):
Abstract submission: 07 Sep 2026
Tutorial submission: 07 Sep 2026
Paper, poster, demo submission: 14 Sep 2026
For more information, please refer to the CfP: swat4ls.org/workshops/basel2027/call-for-papers