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computational biology. Thanks.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals
BIOCOMP'10
The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
Date and Location: July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the BIOCOMP conference
proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will
also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing
workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that
appear below.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O Microarrays
O Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions
O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly
O Molecular sequence and structure databases
O Computational Systems Biology
O Gene regulation
O Gene pattern discovery and identification
O Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases
O Genetic network modeling and inference
O Comparative genomics
O Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
O Biomedical engineering
O Combinatorics and bioinformatics
O Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
O Biological databases and information retrieval
O Bio-ontologies + semantics
O Biological data integration and visualization
O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
O Pattern classification and recognition
O Sequence analysis and alignment
O Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
O Tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics
O Protein modeling
O Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition
O Metabolic modeling and pathways
O Evolution and phylogenetics
O Macromolecular structure prediction
O Medical informatics
O Epidemic models
O Structural and functional genomics
O Amino acid sequencing
O Stochastic modeling
O Cheminformatics
O Computational drug discovery
O Experimental medicine and analysis tools.
O Personalized medicine
O Cancer informatics
O Graph theory and computational biology
O Experimental studies and results
O Application of computational intelligence in drug design
O High-performance computing and applications in biology
O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
O Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements
in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.
USEFUL WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP list of accepted papers in the last offering of BIOCOMP, go to
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/biocomp/biocomp2009.html
The main web site of BIOCOMP'10 is accessible at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/biocomp10
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - The sponsors will include a number
of active research labs and centers that have helped to shape
our field. The Academic sponsors of the last offering of
BIOCOMP & WORLDCOMP included research labs and centers
affiliated with United States Military Academy, Harvard
University, MIT, Argonne National Lab., University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, University of Minnesota, University of
Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, George Mason
University, Vienna University of Technology, University of
Siegen, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Iowa,
SECLAB (Italy), University of North Dakota, Texas A&M
University, National Institute for Health Research,
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine,
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, and European
Commission. For 2010, we will also include The Berkeley
Initiative in Soft Computing/BISC of University of California,
Berkeley (confirmed.) In recent offerings of WORLDCOMP/BIOCOMP,
corporate sponsors included: Google, Intel, Salford Systems,
Element CXI, Synplicity, NIIT, SuperMicro, HPCNano, Council on
Medical & Care Compunetics, Scientific Tech. Corp., HoIP, GridToday.
Members of the Steering Committee of WORLDCOMP 2010:
(BIOCOMP'10 is an important track of WORLDCOMP which is
a federated event. What appears below is a partial list of
members of the steering committee.)
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
Professor, Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: h...@cs.uga.edu
Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intelligent HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer-Verlag;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII) + Society for Sim.;
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Science & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
PURPOSE / HISTORY:
BIOCOMP is one of the premier research conferences in bioinformatics
and computational biology. It is being held jointly (same location
and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries participating
at WORLDCOMP Congress. A number of individual research tracks of
the Congress have been held for many years; for example, PDPTA has
been held annually since 1995 (PDPTA'10 is the 16th annual
conference); ERSA has been held annually since 2001 (ERSA'10 is the
10th annual conference); ICAI has been held annually since 1999
(ICAI'10 is the 12th annual conference); BIOCOMP has been held
annually since 2000 (BIOCOMP'10 is the 11th annual conference;
originally it was offered under METMBS). Other tracks of WORLDCOMP
Congress have similar records.
The motivation behind this federated congress is to assemble
a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The
main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
number of research areas that interact. The model used to form
BIOCOMP facilitates communication among researchers from all
over the world in different fields of computer science,
computer engineering, applied computing, computational biology.
Both inward research (core areas) and outward research (multi-
disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be
covered during the conference. BIOCOMP makes concerted effort
to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government
agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world.
BIOCOMP'10 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included (as part of the federated event):
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of
Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the events' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
2008 delegates photos can be viewed at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/8658134154
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by March 1, 2010 and they must
be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5
to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the
authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers.)
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie. BIOCOMP)
must be stated on the first page.
Full papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed
by two experts in the field who are independent of the
conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will
then be reviewed by one member of the program committee who
will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the
final decision. Lastly, the final papers will be reviewed
by one member of the program committee.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book form as well as
online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.) The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after the
conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.
PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:
Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The
session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors
in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.
Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her
biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the
topic of the session, the name of the conference the session
is submitted for consideration (ie, BIOCOMP), and a short
description on how the session will be advertised (in most
cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and
researchers whose work is known to the session proposer).
email your session proposal to H. R. Arabnia ( h...@cs.uga.edu ).
We would like to receive the session proposals by January 16, 2010.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Jan. 16, 2010: Proposals for organizing sessions/workshops
March 1, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2010: Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(BIOCOMP'10)
URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies;
communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) The
Program Committee for BIOCOMP'10 conference is currently
being formed. Many who have already joined the committees
of individual tracks are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of
various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts.
You can view the list of program committee of the last two
offerings of BIOCOMP at:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/biocomp08/committee
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/biocomp09/committee
Program Committee members are expected to have established
a strong and documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program Committee should email
H. R. Arabnia (h...@cs.uga.edu) the following information for
consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position,
complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography
that includes research expertise and the name of the
conference offering to help with (ie, BIOCOMP).
LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:
BIOCOMP'10 will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).
This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and
over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many
recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools,
sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, nightly shows, many
restaurants, ... The hotel is adjacent to CityCenter
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter ) which is the
largest private development in the United States' history
(costing over $11 Billion); this offers access to additional
recreational and entertainment attractions. The negotiated
room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.
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