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Call for papers WCB10 - Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics --------------------------------------------------------------- July 21st, 2010 Edinburgh co-located to ICLP/FLOC 2010 http://wcb10.dimi.uniud.it/ Submission: April 1st, 2010 OVERVIEW AND SCOPE Bioinformatics is a challenging and fast growing area of research, which is of utmost importance for our understanding of life. Major contributions to this discipline can have thousands of positive effects in medicine, agriculture, or industry. To pick out only a few examples, Bioinformatics tackles problems related to * Recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences. For instance, Haplotype/Pedigree inference, Phylogenetic reconstruction, Motif localization, and Alignments * Biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks) * Prediction of the spatial conformation of a bio-polymer, given its sequence of monomers (in particular for proteins and RNA). The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, to share recent results in this area (new ideas, systems and solvers that rely on constraints, but also on Logic Programming, Answer Set Programming, Linear Programming, Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Local Search, and any other AI techniques, possibly combining some of them). On the other hand, to present new challenging problems recently formalized but still beyond current computing capabilities. Submitted papers can be * Extended Abstracts of new results or * Abstract of ongoing works * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop) * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results in the topics above. Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages. Submission is handled by Easychair http://www.easychair.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2010 Notification to Authors: April 30th, 2010 Camera-ready: TBA Workshop: July 21st, 2010. The final submission must include latex sources. Participation of at least one author is mandatory. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Alessandro Dal Palu' Parma Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier Udine Univ., Italy Sebastian Will Freiburg and MIT, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rolf Backofen, Freiburg Univ., Germany. Pedro Barahona, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany Mats Carlsson, SICS, Uppsala Sweden Esra Erdem, Sabanci Univ., Turkey Alessandro Dal Palù Univ. of Parma, Italy (co-chair) Simon de Givry, INRA, Toulouse, France Agostino Dovier Udine Univ., Italy (co-chair) Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Inês Lynce, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Neil Moore, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland Enrico Pontelli, NMSU, USA Sebastian Will Freiburg Univ. and MIT, USA, Germany (co-chair) _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai