From enquire from iqpc.co.uk Thu Dec 3 06:43:41 2009 From: enquire from iqpc.co.uk (Courtney Becker-James) Date: Thu Dec 3 09:21:35 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Complimentary Next-Generation DNA Sequencing resources available to download Message-ID: <7be5aebe-ddf4-4cda-bfda-b282fca7d2f1@xtinmta08.xt.local> Next-Generation DNA Sequencing January 18 - 20, 2010 Grand Connaught Rooms, London, UK http://www.dnaevent.com/ Dear biomatrx, I wanted to drop you a quick line to make sure that you are aware that the early bird discount deadline on your delegate pass for Next-Generation DNA Sequencing expires on Friday 18th December. 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( http://cl.exct.net/profile_center.aspx?s=fe511c79716006747011&mid=ff2912787067&j=fe5a16727161017b7212&l=fe6415767662057e7610&jb=ffcf14&ju= ) Visit the following URL to unsubscribe. ( http://cl.exct.net/unsub_center.aspx?s=fe511c79716006747011&j=fe5a16727161017b7212&mid=ff2912787067&lid=fe6415767662057e7610&jb=ffcf14&ju= ) From pruet from eng.cmu.ac.th Sun Dec 20 04:23:32 2009 From: pruet from eng.cmu.ac.th (Pruet Boonma) Date: Sun Dec 20 15:10:50 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] CfP BADS 2010 -- 2nd Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems Message-ID: <1261301012.3176.14.camel@little-cotton> (Apologies for multiples copies) ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** BADS 2010 2nd Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (with a special session on the "Self-* and Adaptive Mechanisms" topic of the ERCIM CoreGRID Working Group) http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it Washington, DC, USA, June 2010 In association with ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010), Washington, DC, USA, June 15-19, 2010 **** IMPORTANT DATES **** February 7, 2010: Submission of Papers March 10, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection April, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies June 07-11, 2010: Workshop Takes Place **** PUBLICATION **** The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. **** JOURNAL **** Selected papers will be invited to the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier. **** SCOPE **** Computer systems are characterized by an ever growing complexity and a pronounced distributed nature. Centralized or hierarchical architectures are becoming impractical because they have poor scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. Decentralized architectures and algorithms, for example P2P and Grid systems, are increasingly popular, but they need new types of algorithms to be efficiently managed. Bio-inspired algorithms and techniques feature fault-tolerant and self-adaptive behaviours that help to boost the autonomic nature of distributed systems, and are proving effective for the solution of hard parallel and distributed problems. These techniques are sometimes "evolutionary", as they can exploit genetic rules for the selection and recombination of candidate solutions. In other cases, solutions rely on the operations of agents, whose behaviour is inspired by biological systems, including ant colonies, bird flocks, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. In such systems, "swarm intelligence" emerges from the interaction of a large number of very simple agents. Bio-inspired algorithms and systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are optimization problems solved with genetic algorithms, routing strategies inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery and data mining computations in Grid, Cloud and P2P frameworks, achieved by ant- inspired algorithms, and so on. This full day workshop aims to gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on bio-inspired algorithms and systems. **** AREAS OF INTEREST **** Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired algorithms for parallel and distributed computing * Bio-inspired algorithms for P2P, Grid and Cloud systems * Bio-inspired techniques for the construction and management of distributed systems * Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, bird flocks, etc. * Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms * High performance tools for bio-inspired algorithms and systems * Application of bio-inspired algorithms to routing, resource discovery, scheduling in parallel and distributed systems * Bio-inspired algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc. **** ERCIM session **** The workshop will include a session dedicated to the "Self-* and Adaptive Mechanisms" topic of the ERCIM CoreGRID Working Group. This ERCIM research topic is dedicated to adaptive computing principles of large-scale distributed computing platforms and Grid systems. Topics of interest include: * Adaptive service discovery and composition * Elastic management of the Grid infrastructure (virtualization) * Adaptive data management and distribution (P2P) * Adaptive execution methods (i.e. workflow management) * Desktop Grid availability and prediction algorithms Papers submitted to this session will be reviewed in a separate process. Depending on the overall number of accepted papers, the ERCIM session may be scheduled in a day aside, during ICAC. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA **** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin ZIB, Germany Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, UK Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Yaohang Li, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands Nicolas Monmarche, Universite de Tours, France Ruben S. Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Muaz Niazi, Comsats Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan Gauthier Picard, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ramesh Rajagopalan, University of St. Thomas, MN, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Paolo Trunfio, Universita della Calabria, Italy Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka Univeristy, Japan Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy **** WEB SITE AND CONTACT E-MAIL **** http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** The call is open to all members of the Autonomic Computing and Distributed Systems communities and to the members of the ERCIM Research Topic on "Self-* and Adaptive mechanisms". Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages, are invited. Papers must be submitted through the Web site http://conf.icar.cnr.it. Use the ACM format available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html and submit your paper in PDF format. Papers will be peer-reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, presentation, and relevance to the workshop themes. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. From lbcao from it.uts.edu.au Mon Dec 21 07:24:45 2009 From: lbcao from it.uts.edu.au (Longbing Cao) Date: Mon Dec 21 09:02:02 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Call for Papers: 6th workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-10) joint with AAMAS2010 Message-ID: <725676c022edc6195196114938efabd2.squirrel@webmail-staff.it.uts.edu.au> Apologize if you receive more than one copy. Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 2, 2010, 23:59:59 PDT ** The proceedings will be published by Springer LNAI ** ** Format can be Springer LNAI with up to 12 pages** ** Papers should be submitted through the ADMI'10 submission system ** ===================================== Call For Papers The Sixth International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-10) MAY 10-14, 2010 Toronto, Canada http://admi10.agentmining.org/ Held in conjunction with The Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010) http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ Important dates: " Electronic submission of full papers: February 2, 2010 " Notification of paper acceptance: March 2, 2010 " Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: March 15, 2010 " AAMAS-2010 workshop: May 10-11, 2010 History: The International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-10) consolidates several efforts in promoting the interaction and integration between multi-agent systems and data mining data warehousing. ADMI-10 is a consolidation and re-allocation of the ADMI workshop series initated in 2006 and the AIS-ADM workshop series started in 2005. Scope: The ADMI workshop series provides a premier forum for sharing research and engineering results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered in the coupling crossing autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, data wareshousing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and intelligent systems. The workshop welcomes theoretical work and applied disseminations aiming to: " exploit agent-enriched data mining and machine learning, and demonstrate how agent technology can contribute to critical data mining and machine learning problems in theory and practice; " improve data mining-driven agents and systems, and show how data mining and machine learning can strengthen agent intelligence and intelligent systems in research and practical applications; " explore the integration of agents and data mining towards a super-intelligent system and intelligent information processing; " identify challenges and directions for future research and development in agent mining, through the synergy and interaction amongst relevant fields; and " report workable applications and case studies of agent mining. Topics: Contributions on the following and other related topics are solicited: " Challenges and prospects in agent mining " Theoretical foundation for agent mining " Agent-driven data analysis, knowledge discovery and machine learning " Data mining-driven agents and multi-agent systems and intelligent systems " Performance evaluation and validation in agent mining " Emerging agent mining applications and lessons learned Post-workshop publication: " The ADMI-10 Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of LNCS/LNAI series. " Special Issues on Agent Mining, Journal of AAMAS (to be confirmed). General Co-Chair: " Gerhard Weiss University of Maastricht, Netherlands " Philip S Yu University of Illinois at Chicago USA Co-Chairs: " Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney, Australia " Ana Bazzan Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Informatica, Brasil " Pericles A. Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece " Vladimir Gorodetsky Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Supported by Agent-Mining Interaction and Integration Special Interest Group (AMII-SIG) http://www.agentmining.org Contact: Yuming Ou Tel. +61-2-9514-4477, Fax. +61-2-9514-1807, Email: admi09@it.uts.edu.au From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk Sat Dec 26 09:45:44 2009 From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent) Date: Sat Dec 26 10:46:06 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] Distance Masters in Computational Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Message-ID: <4B362198.3020303@manchester.ac.uk> At the University of Manchester, UK, we have over 10 years experience in teaching a range of online courses in computational biology. These courses are designed to enable those with a background in the life sciences, computer science or related disciplines to update their skills, while remaining in the workplace. The courses are also very suitable for home study, helping you to keep in touch with a research environment while taking a career break. Following a review of our programmes we are now delighted to be able to announce the introduction of new course themes in : Computational Bioinformatics Computational Systems Biology For further information, please visit our programme website : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html If you have any questions, or would like advice on the options, please contact Heather.Vincent@manchester.ac.uk From atilla.elci from emu.edu.tr Tue Dec 29 09:50:02 2009 From: atilla.elci from emu.edu.tr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Atilla_El=E7i?=) Date: Tue Dec 29 10:16:17 2009 Subject: [Bio-matrix] ESAS theme book @Springer: CFP. Message-ID: <02b701ca8896$33c8ccb0$9b5a6610$@elci@emu.edu.tr> Dear colleagues, We wish you Seasons's Greetings and a Happy New Year. Hereby we invite you to propose your work for consideration towards inclusion in an edited book. Please feel free to distribute this CFP to your colleagues and professional contacts. Call for Chapter Contributions ============================== Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications (Edited Book by Springer-Verlag) (http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer) Integrating agent and semantic Web technologies in order to extend the ability of programs have long been hailed as the most efficient way to serve users. The idea is to significantly affect performance of application software employing cooperating multi-agent systems through the use of semantic Web services and domain ontologies. The Semantic Web has matured to a great extent with ontology-based applications being built by several major enterprises. However, research and development concerned with the integration of the semantic Web and software agent technologies are moving at snail?s pace. To bring our contribution, we initiated around November 2005, the series of IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems in conjunction with the 30th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. After four annual workshops, preparing to announce the fifth, and two journal special issues on this theme, we are soliciting contributions from research experts and practitioners for an edited volume in the series ?Studies in Computational Intelligence? (http://www.springer.com/series/7092) by Springer-Verlag. Topics of Interest: ----------------- Possible topics for the special issue include: ? Principles and methodologies for semantic agent systems; ? Foundations, theories and models of semantic agent systems; ? Semantic-based autonomous and multi-agent architectures; ? Agent communication languages and protocols with semantics; ? Frameworks and environments for semantic agents systems; ? Ontology development (modeling, versioning, repository) for agent systems ? Ontology management (mapping, merging, alignment) for agents systems; ? Semantic technologies, decision making, communications for agent systems ? Languages, logics, tools and methodologies for semantic agent systems; ? Semantics related agent-oriented software engineering; ? Semantic agents systems for collaboration and cooperation; ? Semantic agent systems for (including but not limited to): ? - Mission-critical systems, enterprise information systems, social networks, ? - E-government, e-commerce, e-business, e-health, life sciences, ? - Multimedia, man-machine interfaces of software application systems; ? - Semantic robotics: design, implementation, and application case studies. ? Information visualization for agent systems with semantic Web techniques; ? Applications of semantic agents systems with pertinent lessons learned. Proposal submission: ------------------- We welcome original high quality contributions on the theme of Semantic Agent Systems along the aspects of foundation, theory, models, engineering, and applications. Substantially revised and extended versions of papers presented at conferences and workshops are also encouraged provided that the new content exceeds 50% of the paper. A 2-page chapter proposal may be uploaded to the submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SASFA2010/) as soon as possible. Authors will be notified of the outcome within two weeks. Draft and final chapter proposals of about twenty pages must conform to Springer's Instructions for Authors (http://www.springer.com/series/7092?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCount er=149813). Important Dates: ---------------- 2-Page Proposal: Immediate Guest Editors' Feedback: Within two weeks Chapter Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010 Completion of First-Round Reviews: April 10, 2010 Revised Chapters Due: April 30, 2010 Final Publication Materials Due: May 20, 2010 Contact Details: --------------- Please address all correspondence regarding this book to the Guest Editors: Atilla Elci Internet Technologies Research Center Eastern Mediterranean University Gazimagusa, North Cyprus E-mail: atilla.elci @ emu.edu.tr Mamadou Tadiou Kone Independent Computing Research Montreal, Canada E-mail: Kone.Mamadou @ gmail.com Mehmet A. Orgun Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Email: Mehmet.Orgun @ mq.edu.au for the Editors Atilla, Mamadou, & Mehmet, Season's Greetings and Happy New Year! /Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun! Atilla Elci, PhD. http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/ http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer http://tinyurl.com/ESAS2010 http://www.sinconf.org/ http://www.compsac.org/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-88074-5 http://tinyurl.com/SIN2009-Proceedings http://tinyurl.com/SIN2007-Proceedings http://www.ijrcs.org/ http://itrc.emu.edu.tr/ E.M.U Eastern Mediterranean University E.M.U Eastern Mediterranean University