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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ******************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2005/cfp.htm http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html ***************** 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 patientsmedical 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.