Dear Colleagues: Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested. Thank you, Organizing Committee ------------ CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011 BIOCOMP'11 The 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA =================================== Conference Web site: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/biocomp11 This is the 12th annual offering of BIOCOMP conference. 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). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others.) In the past, the proceedings have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers will appear in special issues of journals and edited research books (so far, two books have been approved to be published by Springer based on BIOCOMP'11 - these books will be indexed by Medline, Scopus, EMBASE, BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts, CSA, Biological Sciences and Living Resources, and Biological Sciences). 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 Software 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: The DBLP list of accepted papers of BIOCOMP 2010 appears at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/biocomp/biocomp2010.html The main web site of BIOCOMP'11 can be found at: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/biocomp11 BIOCOMP'11 conference will be held simultaneously (same location and dates) with WORLDCOMP 2011 congress - WORLDCOMP 2011 congress is composed of major tracks in the following areas: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES); Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise IS, & e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems (ERSA); Embedded Systems (ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education, CS & CE (FECS); Grid Computing (GCA); Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA); Security & Management (SAM); Software Engineering (SERP); and Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS). For more information about each of the above tracks, refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: March 31, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 20, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- 6 days) May 7, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11) Those who have submitted papers during the month of February will receive the decision on their papers by the end of March 2011. ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of BIOCOMP (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM/PPPPPP); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 31, 2011 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 for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the 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) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. In the past, the proceedings have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier. 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, ...) - 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 (we have already arranged journal special issues in BMC Genomics, BMC Systems Biology, and others). For a few examples of recent books and journal issues formed based on BIOCOMP, see the links below: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9 http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6 + a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics: http://www.biomedcentral.com MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of the 2011 BIOCOMP is currently being prepared. Last year's (ie, 2010's) members of the federated event (WORLDCOMP'10) included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of BIOCOMP 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/biocomp10/committee
The BIOCOMP 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science. 2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR: Ashu M. G. Solo BCS Fellow (British Computer Society Fellow) Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc. Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc. GENERAL INFORMATION: 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. WORLDCOMP 2011 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: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ 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.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress 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. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, biology, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter- disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceeedings have received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many reputable journals in computer science. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
