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BIO-LOGICAL: LOGIC-BASED APPROACHES IN BIOINFORMATICS WORKSHOP 12 December 2009 - Reggio Emilia (Italy) http://www.di.uniba.it/~bio-logical09/ Satellite workshop of the AI*IA 2009: International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence ===================================================================== * * * IMPORTANT DATE - Paper submission: October 4, 2009 * * * ===================================================================== LOCATION AND DATE The Bio-Logical: Logic-based Approaches in Bioinformatics Workshop will take place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on December 12, 2009, following the AI*IA 2009 International Conference (9-11 December 2009) The conference and all the workshops will be hosted in the new building of the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences and of the Faculty of Communication and Economics, located in the centre of Reggio Emilia Address: via Allegri 9, I 42100 Reggio Emilia CALL FOR PAPERS Bioinformatics is a truly interdisciplinary field at the boundary between biology and computer science. It encompasses every aspect of computational biology, from DNA sequence analysis to protein structure analysis and prediction. The goal is to aid biologists in gathering and processing genomic data to study protein function and protein interactions. Most of the tools routinely used in bioinformatics have been developed by scientists with a background in biological sciences. Some prominent examples are tools for comparing sequences. However, the vast amount of biological data available and the demand for increasingly complex applications for their analysis offer vast opportunities for the systematic application of a wide range of techniques from computer science, including those based on computational logics. This workshop aims at collecting contributes, and at bringing together scientists and practitioners, whose research interests lie across the areas of Logics (along various possible representation formalisms, inference strategies and approaches) and Bioinformatics. The former is a broad branch of Artificial Intelligence in general, and includes many sub-areas of interest. The latter is a discipline that is gaining more and more interest nowadays and that can take great advantage from the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques, because of the high domain complexity and the scarce explicit domain knowledge available. The mixture of both turns out to be particularly interesting, because of the peculiarity of Logic approaches to be able to express and manipulate relations among objects. Indeed, such a characteristic might play a crucial role in the biological domain. Hence, the twofold attempt of the workshop: stimulating application of Logic approaches in Bioinformatics, and searching for new challenges posed by Bioinformatics that can be successfully tackled by Logic-based approaches. Contributes are welcome concerning any aspect involved in such disciplines: problems, methodologies, techniques, systems and applications. The workshop should be of interest, in addition to researchers working in the Logic-oriented branch of Artificial Intelligence in order to propose their solutions, also for those who are interested more specifically in the biological domain, that can take the chance to discover a branch of Artificial Intelligence less known to the wide audience but that can turn out to be important for the solution of their problems. Moreover, the meeting could also be a chance to bring together researchers that work in the Bioinformatics application domain using approaches that fall into different areas of Artificial Intelligence, with the aim of identifying possibilities of cooperation and synergies between the respective areas of interest. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - logic programming - multi-strategic inference: induction, abduction, abstraction, deduction - representation and reasoning - constraint logic programming - fuzzy logic - description logics - (probabilistic) logic based learning Applications include, but are not limited to: - genome annotation - protein sequence annotation - protein structure comparison - reconstruction and analysis biochemical pathways - structural analysis and protein structure prediction - drug design - information extraction from biological literature - integration of biological information sources - inferring cell regulation - determining protein function and metabolic pathways PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers not exceeding 10 pages, written in English and complying with the LNCS Springer-Verlag format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should be submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format and can be performed at the Workshop Web site: www.di.uniba.it/bio-logical09 Accepted papers will be published on the official CD-Rom of the AI*IA2009 International conference with regular ISBN number. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: October 4, 2009 * Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009 * Workshop day: December 12, 2009 WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE FEE Attendance to the conference and to the workshops IS limited to members of AI*IA. Participants are kindly requested to register before the conference, although on-site registration will also be offered. Attendance to the workshops only (including participation in all the workshops, coffee-breaks and a CD-ROM with the Proceedings of all Workshops; it does not include membership to AI*IA): Advance registration: 100 Euro, On-site registration: 200 Euro Regular conference fee (including participation in the conference and all the workshops, a copy of the proceedings volume, the conference CD-Rom, coffee breaks for all 4 days; it does not include membership to AI*IA): Early registration, before August 31, 2009: 350 Euro. Late registration, since September 1, 2009: 400 Euro. On-site registration: 500 Euro Student fee (including proceedings volume and participation to the workshops, not including conference dinner): 130 Euro ** NOT AVAILABLE ON-SITE ** CHAIRS Stefano Ferilli (University of Bari) Donato Malerba (University of Bari) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Nicola Di Mauro (University of Bari) Marenglen Biba (University of Bari) Corrado Loglisci (University of Bari) Eliana Salvemini (University of Bari) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (provisional) Giuliano Armani (University of Cagliari) Marco Botta (University of Torino) Alessandro Dal Palù (University of Parma) Paolo Frasconi (University of Firenze) Francesco Masulli (University of Genova) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca) Luigi Palopoli (University of Calabria) Andrea Passerini (University of Trento) Alberto Policriti (University of Udine) ------------------------------------ |
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