Call for Papers IEEE ITCC 2004 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing http://www.itcc.info
Special Track on Information Technology in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Computing The Orleans, Las Vegas, NV, April 5 -7, 2004 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Submission deadline: November 17th, 2003 Context and Objectives Biology and Biomedicine have become increasingly data-driven sciences. The researchers in this area are producing vast quantities of data daily from sources such as clinical trials, statistics, population genetics, imaging, gene sequencing, gene expression analysis, and protein identification projects. These data enable the creation of enormous digital libraries. This data is unique in the sense that it combines enormity with fine granularity. The rate of accumulation of this data has far exceeded our capacity to analyze it and discover novel and significant knowledge embedded in it using non-automated means. This has led to the evolution of a new-fangled area of multi-disciplinary research, termed Bioinformatics, defined as the science of storing, extracting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and utilizing information from biological sequences and molecules. Biomedical Informatics deals with algorithms and routines that have general applicability and that form the basis for the evolving information technology research in biomedical sciences and related disciplines. This track focuses on the techniques and methodologies which give rise to design and development of information technology routines for applications in Bioinformatics and/or Biomedical Informatics. The topics include, but are not limited to the following: Bioinformatics: - - Algorithms for Microarray Analysis - - Computational Protein Structure prediction and Analysis - - Data Mining for Bioinformatics applications - - Functional Genomics - - High Performance Computing - - Machine learning - - Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology - - Pattern Recognition and Sequence Alignment - - Regulatory Networks - - String and graph algorithms for Bioinformatics Biomedical Computing: - - Mining biomedical databases - - Heterogeneous Data Integration - - Storage and access structures for biomedical data - - Biological and biomedical data modeling - - Information Retrieval from Biomedical data Sources - - Scientific Visualization - - Automated text categorization and authority determination - - Mining techniques for emerging imaging types Publication All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Authors should submit original, unpublished papers containing contributions of theoretical or experimental nature. Papers will be published in ITCC 2004 Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will be considered for Journal publication. Submit your papers (up to 8 pages, in the IEEE Proceedings format) electronically through http://www.softconf.com/start/ITCC2004/submit.html The accepted electronic formats are PS, PDF and MS WORD. Information on the final manuscript submission will be provided later. Further help on submission is available at http://www.ee.unlv.edu/~it/Files/start/how-to-submit.html Track co-chairs: Bioinformatics: Dr. Sumeet Dua ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Biomedical Computing: Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Important Deadlines: October 17, 2003Paper submission November 14, 2003Notification of Acceptance December 19, 2003Camera-ready Copies Due Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of Texas at Arlington 416 Yates St., 306 Nedderman Hall Arlington, TX 76019-0015 Voice: (817)-272-3334 Fax: (817)-272-3784 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ranger.uta.edu/~alp Dr. Sumeet Dua Computer Science Program, Louisiana Tech University 223 Nethken Hall, 600 W. Arizona Avenue, Ruston, LA 71272 Voice: (318)-257-2830 Fax: (318)-257-4922 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.latech.edu/~sdua
