Anna Bernasconi - Böcker

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2021, which was held virtually during November 15–17, 2021.The 19 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions, and they focus on bioinformatics, computational biology, health informatics, cheminformatics, biotechnology, biostatistics, and biomedical imaging.

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the ICWE 2022 International Workshops, BECS, SWEET and WALS, held in Bari, Italy, July 5–8, 2022. The 14 revised full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.

This book is a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by the author to receive her PhD from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The work deals with one of the central objectives of the European Research Council project “Data-Driven Genomic Computing”, i.e., building an integrated repository for genomic data. It reflects the research adventure that starts from modeling biological data, goes through the challenges of integrating complex data and their describing metadata and finally builds tools for searching the data empowered by a semantic layer. The results of this thesis are part of a broad vision: the availability of conceptual models, related databases, and search systems for both humans and viruses genomics will provide important opportunities for research, especially if virus data will be connected to its host, the human being, who is the provider of genomic and phenotype information.In 2023, the PhD dissertation won the CAiSE PhD Award, granted to outstanding PhD theses in the field of information systems engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2024, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, during October 28-31, 2024. The 22 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: AISA’2024 - The First International Workshop on AI Services and ApplicationsCMLS2024 - The 5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life SciencesEmpER'24 -7th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Conceptual ModelingQUAMES 2024 - 5th International Workshop on Quality and Measurement of Model-Driven Software DevelopmentJUSMOD24 - 3rd International Workshop on Digital JUStice, Digital Law and Conceptual MODelingLLM4Modeling - 2nd Workshop on Modeling in the Age of Large Language Models

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 44th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2025, which took place in Poitiers, France, during October 20–23, 2025.The 11 full papers and 2 other papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The highly dynamic nature of ER workshops helps shape the future of conceptual modeling and contributes to its impact across diverse domains of knowledge, from life sciences to engineering and business.Five workshops were organized at ER 2025. These include:– Fundamentals of Conceptual Modeling (FCM)– 6th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences (CMLS)– 3rd International Workshop on Modeling in the Age of Large Language Models (LLM4Modeling)– 11th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom)– 6th International Workshop on Quality and Measurement of Model-Driven Software Development (QUAMES)