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BBC 2013 : 6th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science | |||||||||||
Link: http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/bbc2013 | |||||||||||
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ICCS 2013 6th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science (BBC 2013) http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/bbc2013/ held in conjunction with International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2013) Barcelona, Spain June 5 - June 7, 2013 http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/ ===================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline EXTENDED January 2, 2013 * * * ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS AIMS & SCOPE Emerging technologies in genomics, proteomics, interactomics and other life science areas are generating an increasing amount of complex data and information. The evolving data and information ecosystem includes large experimental ?omics? data sets, natural language text from the scientific literature and the Web, and highly connected heterogeneous information networks, such as open linked data distributed on the Internet. Integrating and analysing this information in the context of modern life science research problems and biomedical applications poses a considerable challenge for bioinformatics and computational biology. Traditionally, bioinformatics has concentrated on methods and technologies facilitating the acquisition, storage, organization, archiving, analysis and visualization of biological and medical data. Computational biology, on the other, hand, has emphasized mathematical and computational techniques facilitating the modelling and simulation of biomedical processes and systems. In recent years the distinction between these two fields has become increasingly blurred. In order to tackle the growing complexity associated with emerging and future life science challenges, bioinformatics and computational biology researchers and developers need to explore, develop and apply novel computational concepts, methods, tools and systems. Many of these new approaches are likely to involve advanced and large-scale computing techniques, technologies and infrastructures such as: * High-performance architectures and systems (e.g., multicore, GPU); * Distributed computing (e.g. grid, cloud, peer-to-peer, Web services, e-infrastructures); * Data and information management and integration (e.g., databases, data warehousing, data fusion); * Knowledge discovery/management (e.g., knowledge bases, data mining, ontologies, workflow); * Computational simulation (mechanistic, stochastic, multi-model); * Artificial and computational intelligence (machine learning, agents, evolutionary techniques). Together, these topics cover the key bioinformatics and computational biology techniques and technologies encountered in modern life science environments: (1) Advanced computing architectures/infrastructures; (2) Data/information management and integration; (3) Data/information analysis and knowledge discovery; (4) Integration of quantitative/symbolic knowledge into executable biomedical ?theories? or models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer and life scientists to discuss emerging and future directions in these areas. This is the 6th edition of this workshop, which was previously held in Krak?w (2008), Baton Rouge (2009), Amsterdam (2010), Singapore (2011), and Omaha (2012). This 6th edition has been modified to incorporate the advanced and large-scale bioinformatics and computational biology challenges associated with executable ?theories? or models. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research contributions presenting innovative bioinformatics and computational biology concepts and solutions in the areas outline above. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Computer Science Bioinformatics Computational Biology * Dedicated hardware & architectures * High performance & distributed computing * Parallelisation techniques * Grid/cloud computing * Service-orientation * Volunteer computing * Peer-to-peer computing * (Distributed) workflows * E-infrastructures * Data management/integration/fusion * Biological sequence & structure analysis * Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interactomics, etc. * Analysis of biological networks * Biomedical image analysis * Neuroimaging * Data visualization * Data mining & knowledge discovery * Simulation of biological systems/processes * Multi-model approaches * Systems biology * Knowledge-based techniques * Knowledge management * Artificial / computational intelligence techniques * Executable theories and models PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The manscripts submitted to this workshop must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of Procedia Computer Science (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/description). Please use this file for a Latex template plus instructions (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/procedia/ecrc-procs.zip) and click here for an MS word template file (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/procedia/ProcediaComputerScience_template.dot). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the workshop. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/papers/upload.php) indicating the workshop title 6th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science (BBC 2013) A copyright form (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/procedia/ProcediaComputerScience_copyrightform.doc) is only needed after the paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings. Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format. Dates of deadlines for manuscript submission (full paper), notification of acceptance, deadline for camera-ready paper submission and registration may be found in the Important Dates (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/important-dates.html) section of the ICCS Web site, unless otherwise specified on this workshop site. Manuscripts submitted to this workshop must be based on unpublished, mature and original work and must be submitted to ICCS only. ICCS is an ERA 2010 A-ranked conference series. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE After the workshop, selected papers may be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science. Selected papers (extended and revised version) accepted on the 1st edition of this workshop have been published on a special section of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers submission: January 2, 2013 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2013 Camera-ready papers: March 1, 2013 Authors registration: February 10 - March 10, 2013 Participant early registration: February 10 - April 25, 2013 Tutorials, welcome reception: June 4, 2013 Conference/Workshop sessions: June 5 - June 7, 2013 WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS Mario Cannataro, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Dave Angulo, DePaul University, Chicago, USA 2. Francisco Azuaje, CRP-Sant?, Luxembourg 3. Daniel Berrar, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 4. Eun Bo Shim, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea 5. Rui Brito, University of Coimbra, Portugal 6. Kevin Burrage, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 7. Nagasuma Chandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 8. Bastien Chopard, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 9. Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA 10. Attila Csik?sz-Nagy, King?s College London, UK, and Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy 11. Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK 12. Christine Froidevaux, LRI-Bioinformatics Group - University Paris XI, Orsay, France 13. Alan Garny, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics 14. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 15. Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy 16. Ulrich Hansmann, Research Centre Juelich, Germany 17. Vicente Hern?ndez, Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain 18. Pilar Herrero, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 19. Alfons Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 20. Ela Hunt, Bundesamt f?r Statistik BFS / Office Federal de la Statistique OFS, Switzerland 21. Glenn Terje Lines, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway 22. Marcelo Lobosco, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 23. Uko Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia 24. Wagner Meira Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 25. Maria Mirto, University of Salento, Italy 26. Hartmut Mix, University of Technology Dresden, Germany 27. Igor Mozeti?, Jo?ef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 28. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 29. Mar?a S. P?rez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 30. Gernot Plank, University of Graz, Austria 31. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK 32. Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, Mexico 33. Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford, UK 34. Insik Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 35. Luis Paulo da Silva Barra, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 36. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 37. Raymond Spiteri, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 38. Martin Swain, Aberystwyth Universith, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom 39. Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy 40. El-Ghazali Talbi, Universit? des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France 41. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 42. Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy 43. Edward J. Vigmond, University of Calgary, Canada 44. Jordi Vill? i Freixa, Universitat de Vic, Vic, Spain 45. Giovanni Vozzi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 46. Chong Wang, Technical University of Wildau, Wildau, Germany 47. Huiru Zheng, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, United Kingdom 48. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia 49. Bla? Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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