[BiO BB] CFP: (IEEE CBMS2005) Special Track on Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics

Maria Mirto maria.mirto at unile.it
Thu Dec 30 06:00:31 EST 2004


Dear all,

Please find attached the Call For Papers for:

18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) -
Track on Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics.

        Dublin, Ireland 23-24 June 2005

        http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2005/cfp.htm
  http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html

       sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

The main goal of the track is to discuss well-known and emerging bio
data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse technologies
and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these environments.
In particular, this Conference Track aims at offering a forum of
discussion where young researchers and PhD students could present their
research activities, either at an early or mature phase.

Best regards,
Maria Mirto.

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 Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology)
 Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering
 University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
 phone: +39-0832-297304, fax: +39-0832-297279
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Special Track on Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics.

      CBMS 2005: IEEE on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)

         Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
                   June 23-24, 2005
                   Dublin, Ireland
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                     Call for Papers
            http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2005/cfp.htm
        http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html

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Bio-informatics, genomics, proteomics and medical image analysis are
emerging methods in health care. Navigating between phenotype and genotype
means that clinical data and genetic assessment are integrated in patient
investigations.
What is missing today is:
   • the full integration of these methods and technologies to enhance all
phases of health care, including diagnosis, prognosis, etc.;
   • the dissemination of such methods in the clinical practice, whenever
they are developed, deployed and maintained.
Such a vision requires the design and implementation of computer tools,
methods and platforms for seamless biomedical data and bioinformatics
tools integration.
Main issues to realize such a vision are:
   • Integration of multiple laboratories collecting genomics and
post-genomics data, so that biology or bio-informatics research
laboratories:
       - can continue to maintain their own biological, biomedical and
         computing resources autonomously;
       - can face effectively the growth of data they need to manage and
         process exploiting recent algorithms such as data mining taking
         into account that biomedical data are produced and stored
         continuously;
   • Provision of large computing power especially in areas such as:
       - The medical image processing community that is facing a growing
         need to analyse 2D, 3D, 4D images, to simulate medical treatments
         or surgeries (radiotherapy, plastic surgery, etc.), and to
         develop computer aided surgery;
       - Integration and access physicians to all of their patients’medical
         data from their office.
The grid paradigm offers CPU and data handling capabilities and allows
users and laboratories to share their facilities (computing and data
storage resources, instruments, knowledge, etc.) through high bandwidth
networks between dynamically formed Virtual Organizations.
Grid middleware currently offers basic services for Grid management, and
application development and deployment. To face the complexity of novel,
cooperative, distributed Health and Bioinformatics applications, new
specialized Grid services have to be developed: in such a way Grids can be
deployed to address the needs of the biomedical community.
The main goal of the track is to discuss well-known and emerging bio
data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse technologies
and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these environments.
In particular, this Conference Track aims at offering a forum of
discussion where young researchers and PhD students could present their
research activities, either at an early or mature phase.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
      • Grid solutions for bio data-intensive applications
      • Grid infrastructures for bio data analysis
      • High-performance computing for bio data-intensive applications
      • Grid computing infrastructures, middleware and tools for Health
      • Grid computing biomedical services
      • Collaboration technologies
      • Bio data analysis and management
      • Databases and the grid in biomedical field
      • Extracting knowledge from bio data grids
      • Data grids for bioinformatics
      • Security in bio data grids


IMPORTANT DATES
      January 26, 2005     Submission of (6-page, maximum) paper
      March 1, 2005        Author Notification
      March 24, 2005       Final camera-ready paper due
      March 24, 2005       Pre-registration deadline


SUBMISSION DETAILS
No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of
original technical research papers will only be accepted in PDF format.
File size is limited to 2 MB. Use a maximum of six A4 pages, including
figures and references. Include one cover sheet, stating the paper title,
authors, technical area(s) covered in the article, corresponding author's
information (telephone, fax, mailing address, e-mail address), and your
preference for oral or poster presentation. Author names should appear
only on the cover sheet, not on the summary. Submit your manuscript no
later than January 26, 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance by
March 1, 2005 after a review process by three independent experts.  Each
accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS
Press, conditional upon the author's advance registration. Submission in
the IEEE Computer Science Press 6x9-inch format is encouraged. Formatting
instructions, LaTeX macros and MSWord templates are available at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/.
Authors should indicate the special track title (on the cover sheet). All
submissions will be done electronically via the CBMS web submission
system, at
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/mlg/CBMS2005/openconf/openconf.php.

For further questions, please contact:
Maria Mirto,
CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology)
                          &
SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures)
Consortium,
c/o Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering,
University of Lecce,
Via per Monteroni,
73100 Lecce, Italy,

Voice: +39-0832-297304,
Fax:   +39-0832-297279,

Email: maria.mirto at unile.it

Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged.





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