KR-MED, a one day KR 2004 Workshop, will be held in Whistler (BC, Canada) on the 1st of June 2004.

This Workshop is the first of this kind, organized by the recently founded Special Interest Group "Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation" of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

The engineering of large-scale domain knowledge, mostly in form of controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and classification systems constitutes an important branch of activities in Medical Informatics. The recent growth of interest in genomics and molecular biology has set another focus on the organization of the fast growing terminological knowledge in this domain. Despite recent advances in using formal languages for biomedical concept representation, many fundamental issues (ontological basis, expressivity, scalability) remain unresolved.

This workshop aims at bringing together people dealing with the design and implementation of (bio)medical concept systems with those dedicated to formal ontologies and representation languages. The goal is to analyze in which aspects (theoretical) KR research can be used for a new generation of biomedical concept systems.