C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals
The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
BIOCOMP'09
Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA
You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop). All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O Gene regulation
O Gene expression databases
O Gene pattern discovery and identification
O Genetic network modeling and inference
O Gene expression analysis
O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
O Biomedical engineering
O Microarrays
O Molecular sequence and structure databases
O Molecular dynamics and simulation
O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly
O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
O Sequence analysis and alignment
O Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
O Software tools for computational biology and bioinformatics
O Comparative genomics
O Protein modeling
O Molecular interactions
O Metabolic modeling and pathways
O Evolution and phylogenetics
O Macromolecular structure prediction
O Proteomics
O Protein folding and fold recognition
O Medical informatics
O Epidemic models
O Biological data mining and knowledge discovery
O Pattern classification and recognition
O Structural and functional genomics
O Amino acid sequencing
O Stochastic modeling
O Cheminformatics
O Bio-ontologies + semantics
O Computational drug discovery
O Graph theory and bioinformatics
O Biological databases and information retrieval
O Biological data integration and visualization
O Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
O Experimental studies and results
O Application of computational intelligence in medicine and
biological sciences (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic,
evolutionary computing, and simulated annealing).
O High-performance computing as applied to natural and medical sciences
O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
O Other aspects and applications relating to technological
advancements in medicine and biological sciences.
O Novel applications
Web links:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/biocomp09
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - it will include a number of active
research laboratories and centers that have helped to shape our
field. The Academic Co-Sponsors of the last offering of
BIOCOMP included research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,
University of Texas at Austin, MIT, George Mason University,
University of Iowa, Russian Academy of Sciences, NEMO/European
Union, and others. Corporate Co-Sponsors included, Google,
Salford Systems, Synplicity, Supermicro, NIIT, and others.
General Co-Chair and Coordinator:
H. R. Arabnia, PhD
Professor, Computer Science
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on TCSC
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Boyd Building
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: [email protected]
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers by
uploading them to http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/ .
Submissions must be received by Feb. 25, 2009 and they must be in
either MS doc 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 papers for
publication.)
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 (BIOCOMP)
must be mentioned on the first page.
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 two members of
the program committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs.
The co-chairs will make the final decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready
papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.
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, 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'09), 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 Prof. Arabnia (address is given above). We would like to
receive the proposals by January 16, 2009.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Jan. 16, 2009: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
Feb. 25, 2009: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2009: Notification of acceptance
April 25, 2009: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
July 13-16, 2009: The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'09)
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
of Science (chapters: bioinformatics, computational biology;
supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science;
databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems;
internet and web technologies; communications; and computer security.)
The Program Committee for BIOCOMP is currently being formed. Those
interested in joining the Program Committee should email Prof. Arabnia
([email protected]) the following information: Name, affiliation
and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
biography together with research interests and the name of the
conference (BIOCOMP) offering to help with.
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
laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
departments, deans and provosts.
PURPOSE / HISTORY:
BIOCOMP'09 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'09).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing.
The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
topics 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
facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world
in different fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward
research and outward research will be covered during BIOCOMP'09.
BIOCOMP'09 and WORLDCOMP'09 will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial
speakers included: Prof. David A. Patterson (U. of California,
Berkeley); Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
(U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. Brian D. Athey (U. of Michigan,
Ann Arbor), Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.); Prof. Barry Vercoe
(MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California, Berkeley);
Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X
Window); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and
many other distinguished speakers.
LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, 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, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
a number of restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for
conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within
walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
destinations, Golf courses, ...)
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