[BiO BB] ITBAM 2013 Call for Papers

[Prof. Roland Wagner]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Call for Papers

4th International Conference on Information Technology
in Bio- and Medical Informatics - ITBAM 2013

Prague (Czech Republic) August 26 - 30, 2013

Data intensive disciplines, such as life sciences and medicine, are 
promoting vivid research
activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies, such as 
high-throughput mass-
spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. 
produce enormous
and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases 
provide access to
aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, 
biological
pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There 
has never been more
potentially available information to study biomedical systems, ranging 
from single cells to
complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the 
vast amount of
biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific 
progress and supporting
patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research 
in the database
community include but are not limited to:

*    Systems biology
*    Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
*    Genome-wide association studies
*    Drug target discovery and personalized medicine
*    Neuroscience and neuroinformatics
*    Electronic patient records
*    Patient monitoring
*    Surgery planning and support
*    etc.

Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of 
these application
scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in 
information technology:
*    Administration of vast amounts of data
*    Integration of heterogeneous data sources
*    Federated and distributed databases
*    Data warehouses
*    Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, 
association rule mining, etc.
*    Decision support systems
*    Information and image retrieval
*    Signal processing and streaming databases
*    Privacy protection and data security
*    Data quality assurance
*    Process management and collaborative work
*    User interfaces and visualization
*    Interoperability and standardization
*    etc.

Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences 
and medicine is an
inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. The path from an idea to 
a practical application is
often long and laborious, involving intensive interactions between 
experts in information
technology, life sciences and the medical field. ITBAM accompanies and 
supports this path
by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful 
discussions, and effective
interactions among interdisciplinary researchers.
In addition to the regular conference program featuring presentations of 
full and short
research papers published in the proceedings, ITBAM encourages the 
submission of posters
reporting work in progress. All accepted posters will be displayed 
during the whole event and
abstracts will also be included in the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
*    Submission of full papers (firm): February 25, 2013
*    Notification of acceptance: May 6, 2013
*    Submission of posters (firm): May 6, 2013
*    Camera-ready copies due: June 7, 2013

Paper Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions or 
experience reports in
English. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper 
as it will appear in
the proceedings.
*    Paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format. Poster 
submissions
are expected to consist of 1 page Abstract
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
*    Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from 
formatting requirements
may be rejected without review.
*    For paper registration and electronic submission see:
https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2013
*    Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
*    Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to 
agree to the following
terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap 
substantially with
any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted 
elsewhere.
Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited 
prominently in
this submission."

Accepted Papers:
All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science"
(LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted full papers will be of 15 pages 
length, short papers 8
pages. Authors of accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release 
form. For further
inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela 
at dexa.org).

GENERAL CHAIRPERSON:
*    Christian Böhm, University of Munich, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRPERSONS:
*    Sami Khuri, San José State University, USA
*    Miroslav Bursa, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic
*    M. Elena Renda, IIT - CNR, Pisa, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
tbd


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