[Biodevelopers] Extended deadline for IEEE CBMS Grid track

[Maria Mirto]

*** Extended submission deadline: February 7 ***

Dear all,

the deadline of the IEEE CBMS 2005 has been extended.

Submissions for CBMS and "Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics" track are
possible until February 7, 2005.

Call for Papers: http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2005/cfp.htm
Submission Page:
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/mlg/CBMS2005/openconf/openconf.php

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
      February 7, 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.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dave S. Angulo                  DePaul University, USA
Alberto Apostolico              University of Padova, Italy
Vincent Breton                  CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Clermont-Ferrand, France
Mario Cannataro                 University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Italy
Andreas R. Formiconi            Dept. of Clinical Pathophysiology –
                                Florence Univ., Italy
Ian Foster                      Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Carole Goble                    University of Manchester, UK
Concettina Guerra               University of Padova, Italy
Robert L. Martino               National Institutes of Health, USA
Sofie Nørager (Observer)        European Commission, Belgium
Cecilia Saccone                 Institute of Biomedical Technologies of
Bari, Italy
Francesco Sicurello             Health Directorate Lombardia Region, Italy
Tony Solomonides                University of West of England, UK

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.