From igaribay from cs.ucf.edu Mon Jun 2 09:11:56 2008 From: igaribay from cs.ucf.edu (Ivan Garibay) Date: Mon Jun 2 10:55:23 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP: FOGA X; Jan 9-11 2009, Orlando, Florida USA; Submission Deadline: August 18, 2008 Message-ID: <012b01c8c4ba$b189fa30$fb6aaa84@RESEARCH.UCF.EDU> CALL FOR PAPERS FOGA X Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Orlando, Florida USA, 9-11 January 2009 (Friday-Sunday) http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2009 Extended abstracts due: August 18, 2008 We invite submissions of extended abstracts for the tenth Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, sponsored by ACM SIGEVO. FOGA focuses on theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation. It will be held from Friday, January 9 until Sunday January 11, 2009 in Orlando, Florida in the USA. Attendance will be limited to individuals who have submitted papers, or those requesting attendance in advance. Students are particularly encouraged to participate. Submissions should address theoretical issues in evolutionary computation. Papers that consider foundational issues, place analysis in the context of the wider community of theoretical computer science, or focus on bridging the gap between theory and practice are particularly encouraged. These topics do not preclude the acceptance of papers that use an experimental approach, but such work should be directed toward validation of suitable hypotheses concerning foundational matters. Extended abstracts should be between 10-12 pages long. To submit, please email a compressed postscript or a PDF file to foga09@ist.ucf.edu no later than Monday, August 18, 2008. In their submission message, authors should provide the title of the paper, as well as the name, address and affiliation of the author(s). Submitted papers should use standard spacing and margins, with 11pt or 12pt font for the main text. Authors using LATEX should either use the standard article style file or the FOGA style file which can be found at the conference web-site. A double-blind reviewing process will be employed, so authors are asked to remove references to themselves from their paper. Notification will be in early November, and drafts of the full paper will be due one month after notification. These drafts will be distributed as part of a preprint to participants at FOGA. Authors of papers presented at the FOGA workshop will be asked to contribute final versions of their papers (based on discussion/feedback at the meeting) as part of the final volume. IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts due August 18, 2008 Requests for attendance due September 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance early November, 2008 Full papers due early December, 2008 FOGA Workshop January 9-11, 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Thomas Jansen, Thomas.Jansen@tu-dortmund.de Ivan Garibay, igaribay@cs.ucf.edu R. Paul Wiegand, wiegand@ist.ucf.edu Annie S. Wu, aswu@cs.ucf.edu FURTHER INFORMATION Web: http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2009 Enquiries and submissions: foga09@ist.ucf.edu From lawyn from bii.a-star.edu.sg Mon Jun 2 08:54:25 2008 From: lawyn from bii.a-star.edu.sg (lawyn@bii.a-star.edu.sg) Date: Mon Jun 2 10:55:28 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Call for Tutorials: 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM08) Message-ID: <33479.202.156.8.12.1212414865.squirrel@webmail.bii.a-star.edu.sg> ICDM 2008 Call for Tutorials ---------------------------- The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08) December 15 - 19, 2009. Pisa, Italy. http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/ The International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) is well established as a top ranked research conference in data mining, providing a premier forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. ICDM'08 will be the eighth edition of the series. Please visit http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/ for more information about the conference. ICDM'08 will host tutorials covering topics in data mining of interest to the research community as well as application developers. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program, and are free of charge to the attendees of the conference. We invite proposals for tutorials from active researchers and experienced tutors. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research, development and applications in a specific data mining direction, and stimulate and facilitate future work. A tutorial should not mainly focus on only the presenters' previous work. Tutorials on interdisciplinary directions, novel and fast growing directions, and significant applications are highly encouraged. ICDM will provide an honorarium for each tutorial. It is possible, depending on actual conference attendance, that the conference can (partly) support travel and subsistence expenses for tutorial speakers. Please provide an estimate for these expenses in your proposal if you are expecting the conference to cover these expenses for you. We will assume that the tutorial speakers will be able to cover these expenses from their own sources if no estimate is included in their proposals. A tutorial proposal should be formatted in the following sections. 1. Title 2. Abstract (up to 150 words) 3. Rationale of presenting the tutorial at ICDM'08 (up to 200 words) 4. Target audience and prerequisites (up to 50 words) 5. A list of forums and their time and locations if the tutorial or a similar/highly related tutorial has been presented by the same author(s) before, and highlight the similarity/difference between those and the one proposed for ICDM'08 (up to 100 words for each entry) 6. A list of tutorials on the same/similar/highly related topics given by other people, and highlight the difference between yours and theirs (up to 100 words for each entry) 7. A list of other tutorials given by the authors, please list the titles, the presenters and the forums only. 8. Tutors' short bio and their expertise related to the tutorial (up to 100 words per tutor) 9. An outline of the tutorial in the form of a bullet list (up to 1 page) 10. Length of the tutorial: short (1.5-2 hours) or long (3-4 hours). If you are flexible, please indicate in the outline the content that will not be included if a short tutorial is given. 11. A list of up to 20 most important references that will be covered in the tutorial 12. (Optional) URLs of the slides/notes of the previous tutorials given by the authors, and any specific audio/vedio/computer requirements for the tutorial Please kindly send your proposals to Arno Siebes (Arno.Siebes@cwi.nl) and Dino Pedreschi (Dino.Pedreschi@di.unipi.it) on or before *** June 30, 2008. *** The selection results will be announced in late July. The tutorial co-chairs, Dino Pedreschi Arno Siebes From akhtung from gmail.com Tue Jun 3 03:11:10 2008 From: akhtung from gmail.com (akhtung@gmail.com) Date: Tue Jun 3 12:30:26 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CSV: Software for Mining and Visualizing Cohesive Subgraphs Message-ID: Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce our latest software release for cohesive subgraph visualization available for download at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~atung/csv_binary.zip This is an implementation of our algorithm described in [1] and have potential application for visualizing large graphs like social network, protein-protein interaction graphs etc. Future update to CSV will be released through the mailing group: http://groups.google.com/group/nusminer Questions on CSV can be discussed at the forum there as well. Regards, Anthony Tung www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~atung [1] Nan Wang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H. Tung. "CSV: Visualizing and Mining Cohesive Subgraphs". Accepted and to appear in ACM SIGMOD'08, Vancouver, Canada. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~atung/publication/sigmod08_csv.pdf From prash from ruc.dk Tue Jun 3 05:59:55 2008 From: prash from ruc.dk (Prash) Date: Tue Jun 3 12:30:55 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Events: Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008 Message-ID: <20080603125955.kst7j9j6gcskgs4k@webmail-backend3.ruc.dk> Bioinformatics.Org News & Commentary --------------------------------------------------------------------- Events: Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008 Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCALE: Online at Bioinformatics.Org DATE: July 14, 2008 BACKGROUND: This year's conference, Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008 (BSB '08), is aimed at students and those in the research community who fall under broader disciplines of bioinformatics and systems biology. The BSB '08 conference will include invited keynote talks within subdisciplines of these two exciting fields. In addition to keynote addresses, individuals are invited to submit abstracts for presentation as talks in concurrent sessions, or as posters. Ample time will be set aside for discussion during the presentation of participants. SUBMISSIONS: We invite to submit your original and unpublished contribution for presentation at this virtual conference from all subfields of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Abstracts submitted would be evaluated by the program committee through a three-tier reviewing process and the three selected abstracts would be chosen for an oral talk. The rest of the selected submission would, however be printed in our conference proceedings. We are looking forward to publish in one of the open access journals as well. We also encourage researchers to submit proposed works or works in progress. Please send your (maxmimum two-page) abstracts containing NOT more than 500 words with sub-heads: motivation, introduction and review of literature, methods/tools employed, results and discussion, conclusions, future aviations, references, to bsb08@bioinformatics.org not later than July 5, 2008, 1500hrs GMT. The figures and tables, if any, should be clear and in-line with the particular sub-heads. The authors must also declare any competing interests. Bioinformatics.Org appreciates if authors also declare usage of open access of their submissions. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 5, 2008, 1500hrs GMT FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Bioinformatics_to_Systems_Biology_2008 Registration is now open! --------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a copy of a message posted on the Bioinformatics.Org website. From prash from ruc.dk Fri Jun 6 09:19:17 2008 From: prash from ruc.dk (Prash) Date: Fri Jun 6 11:45:22 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Post-Doctoral Trainee Message-ID: <20080606161917.xuitwrpeswssggws@webmail-backend3.ruc.dk> The Computational Immunology Lab of Prof. Ramit Mehr (http://repertoire.os.biu.ac.il/) Bar-Ilan University, Israel (http://www1.biu.ac.il/) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Trainee in Mathematical and Computational Immunology The Computational Immunology (CIL) in Bar-Ilan University is seeking a recent PhD graduate for a post-doctoral position in the field of Mathematical and Computational Immunology. This is an emerging field bridging theoretical and applied research directions in immunology, currently attracting immense interest within the research community. The position focuses on creating models of interacting populations of cells and molecules in the Immune system. The ideal candidate is expected to have expertise in mathematical modeling in biology, preferably in immunology; familiarity with softwares such as Matlab and at least basic programming; and excellent English. ? Job Starting Date: As soon as possible - funding is already in place. ? Application Deadline: open. ? Salary: Standard BIU post-doc fellowship. ? How To Apply: Send CV, LP and statement of interest to: Prof. Ramit Mehr at prof.ramit.mehr@gmail.com ? Please also provide Names of people who will be willing to recommend you ? e.g., advisors from previous studies, projects or jobs (please give names + phone numbers and/or email addresses of these persons). Courtesy: Nalini Kumar, PhD fellow, Karolinska Institute, Sweden From jprudhomme from healthtech.com Tue Jun 10 07:59:50 2008 From: jprudhomme from healthtech.com (JPrudhomme) Date: Tue Jun 10 09:06:06 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Structure-Based Drug Design Conference in Boston this Month Message-ID: <15ca8160-46ab-4457-bba4-55c02d766e61@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> To Whom it May Concern, I have updated the conference agenda, as well as posted a partial list of delegates, who are attending CHI's Eighth Annual Structure-Based Drug Design conference on June 25-27, 2008. www.healthtech.com/sbd/overview.aspx Regards, Jim Prudhomme Cambridge Healthtech Institute From gionis from yahoo-inc.com Tue Jun 10 13:26:11 2008 From: gionis from yahoo-inc.com (Aristides Gionis) Date: Tue Jun 10 16:38:17 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] SDM'09: The 9th SIAM international conference on data mining --- call for papers Message-ID: <484EC743.1060809@yahoo-inc.com> ============================================================ SDM'09: THE NINTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING John Ascuaga's Nugget, Sparks (Reno-Sparks-Tahoe area), Nevada, USA April 30 - May 2, 2009 URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm09 ============================================================= Important Dates: Abstract Due: October 3, 2008 Manuscript Due: October 10, 2008 Author Notification: December 15, 2008 Camera Ready: January 26, 2009 =============================================================== Data mining is an important tool in science, engineering, industrial processes, healthcare, business, and medicine. The datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require powerful visualization technologies; implementations that must be carefully tuned for performance; software systems that are usable by scientists, engineers, and physicians as well as researchers; and infrastructures that support them. This conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops are also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site. =================Topics of Interest========================== Methods and Algorithms: Classification Clustering Frequent Pattern Mining Probabilistic and Statistical Methods Spatial and Temporal Mining Data Stream Mining Abnormality and Outlier Detection Feature Selection / Feature Extraction Dimension Reduction Data Reduction Mining with Constraints Data Cleaning and Noise Reduction Computational Learning Theory Multi-Task Learning Adaptive Algorithms Scalable and High-Performance Mining Mining Graphs Mining Semistructured Data Mining Complex Datasets Mining on Emerging Architectures Text and Web Mining Other Novel Methods Applications: Astronomy & Astrophysics High Energy Physics Collaborative Filtering Earth Science Risk Management Supply Chain Management Customer Relationship Management Finance Genomics and Bioinformatics Drug Discovery Healthcare Management Automation & Process Control Logistics Management Intrusion and Fraud detection Bio-surveillance Sensor Network Applications Social Network Analysis Intelligence Analysis Other Novel Applications and Case Studies Human Factors and Social Issues: Ethics of Data Mining Intellectual Ownership Privacy Models Privacy Preserving Data Mining and Data Publishing Risk Analysis User Interfaces Interestingness and Relevance Data and Result Visualization =====================Organizing Committee ===================== STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory GENERAL CHAIRS Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology Srinivasan Parthasarathy, The Ohio State University PROGRAM CHAIRS Huan Liu, Arizona State University Zoran Obradovic, Temple University WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ian Davidson, University of California, Davis Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University TUTORIAL CHAIR Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp PUBLICITY CHAIRS Aristides Gionis, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wei Wang, University of North Carolina SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University From xwu from cems.uvm.edu Sat Jun 14 05:40:04 2008 From: xwu from cems.uvm.edu (Xindong Wu) Date: Sat Jun 14 12:13:39 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] IEEE ICDM-08 CFP: Papers Due July 7, 2008 Message-ID: <200806141040.m5EAe4004271@kais.cems.uvm.edu> ICDM '08: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ************************************************************** Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society December 15-19, 2008 Pisa, Italy http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it Important Dates July 7, 2008 Deadline for paper submission September 15, 2008 Notification to authors October 7, 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies December 15-19, 2008 Conference Call for Papers *************** The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining, providing a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest. Paper Submissions ***************** High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM '08. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '08 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. ICDM Best Paper Awards ********************** IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. Workshops and Tutorials *********************** ICDM '08 will host short and long tutorials as well as workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ICDM Data Mining Contest ************************ A call for organizing a data mining contest will be issued to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. Topics of Interest ****************** * Data mining foundations - Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis) - Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains - Developing a unifying theory of data mining - Mining sequences and sequential data - Mining spatial and temporal datasets - Mining textual and unstructured datasets - Distributed data mining - High performance implementations of data mining algorithms - Privacy- and anonymity-preserving data analysis * Mining in emerging domains - Stream Data Mining - Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks - Ubiquitous knowledge discovery - Mining multi-agent data - Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities - Mining the semantic web - Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks * Methodological aspects and the KDD process - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation - Utility assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing - Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining - Handling imbalanced data - Automating the mining process and other process related issues - Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models - Human-machine interaction for the KDD process - Visual analytics for data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Data mining query languages - Security and data integrity * Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences - Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics - Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets - Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance - Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research - Customer relationship management - Telecommunications, network and systems management - Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems Conference Co-chairs: Franco Turini (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA) Program Committee Chairs: Fosca Giannotti (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Dimitrios Gunopulos (UC Riverside, USA) Steering Committee Chair: Xindong Wu (Univ. Vermont, USA) Tutorials Chairs: Dino Pedreschi (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Arno Siebes (Uthrecht Univ., The Netherlands) Workshops Chairs: Francesco Bonchi (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Bettina Berendt (Humbolt Univ. Berlin, Germany) Award Chair: Katharina Morik (Univ. Dortmund, Germany) Panels Chair: Jean-Francois Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, France) Exhibit and Demo Chairs: Haixun Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Michail Vlachos (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Atzori (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yan-Nei Law (Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) Sponsorship Chairs: Antonio Gulli (Ask.com, Italy) Raffaele Perego (HPC Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Local Arrangements Chairs: Chiara Renso, Tiziana Mazzone (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Local Arrangements Team: Miriam Baglioni, Michele Berlingerio, Andrea Mazzoni, Mirco Nanni, Ruggero Pensa, Fabio Pinelli, Simone Puntoni, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Salvatore Ruggeri, Roberto Trasarti (KDD Lab, Univ.Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy) Finance Chair: Dino Pedreschi (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Further Information ******************* icdm08-chair@isti.cnr.it icdm08-organizer@isti.cnr.it surface address: IEEE - ICDM08 KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR via A. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa, Italy Phone: +39 050 3152999 - 3153000 - 3153001 Fax: +39 050 3152040 From chandankreddy from gmail.com Sun Jun 15 14:46:27 2008 From: chandankreddy from gmail.com (chandankreddy@gmail.com) Date: Sun Jun 15 15:00:43 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP: ACM SAC Data Mining Track Message-ID: <89e6741e-860b-429d-bfc6-8793939e95f4@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com> ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special Track on Data Mining Honolulu, Hawaii March 8-12, 2009 http://database.cs.wayne.edu/sac2009/ CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to solicit original, unpublished and novel papers for publication and presentation in the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Track on Data Mining. Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas of data mining are of interest. This year, emphasis and special considerations will be given to papers addressing issues in scientific data exploration and mining. 2009 ACM SAC Data Mining Track will be held at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from March 8-12, 2009. ACM SAC Data Mining has a successful history of accepting quality papers and offering a stimulating platform for the exchange of ideas and dissiminating cutting edge research to the community. The 2009 ACM SAC Data Mining Track is the eighth such event in the 23 years of ACM SAC tradition. The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing is recognized as a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups. For more information on ACM SAC 2009, please visit http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/. Paper Registration and Submission Guidelines: Authors must register their intent to submit a paper using the conference management system, eCMS system at http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009/. Authors will use this system for formal paper submission and other correspondence. All papers should represent original and previously unpublished work that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome. The submitted papers should follow the template found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/downloads09.htm. Submitted papers must not be more than 8 pages long in this template. Papers that fail to comply with length limitations risk rejection. Although the submitted version may be of 8 pages long, the final version cannot be more that 5 pages long without any extra page fee. Authors of accepted papers may purchase upto 3 extra pages (a total of 8 pages per paper) at the rate of $80 (US) per page. ACM SAC follows a double blind review process. Consequently, the author(s) name(s) and address(s) must NOT appear in the body of the submitted paper, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double blind review required by ACM. All submitted papers must include the paper identification number provided by the eCMS system when the paper is first registered. The number must appear on the front page, above the title of the paper. All enquiries and questions should be directed to the Track Chairs. Additional details are available on the track home page at http://database.cs.wayne.edu/sac2009/ and at the conference home page at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009. Paper Publication: All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The final version of the paper should not be more than 5 pages long. Poster Publication of Selected Papers: A set of selected papers will be accepted as poster papers by invitation only and will be published as short papers in the symposium proceedings. Paper Submission Deadlines: Registration of papers by authors: August 16, 2008 Submission of papers by authors: August 16, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: October 11, 2008 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 25, 2008 Track Chair: Hasan Jamil Department of Computer Science Wayne State University USA Email: jamil[at]cs.wayne.edu Track Co-Chairs: Chandan Reddy Department of Computer Science Wayne State University USA E-mail: reddy[at]cs.wayne.edu Osmar Zaiane Department of Computer Science University of Alberta Canada E-mail: zaiane[at]cs.ualberta.ca From harald.meyer from univie.ac.at Tue Jun 17 01:29:16 2008 From: harald.meyer from univie.ac.at (Harald Meyer) Date: Tue Jun 17 12:34:24 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems Message-ID: <485759BC.5040109@univie.ac.at> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 !!! NEWS: Online submission system is open !!! !!! Increased max. full paper size: 12 pages !!! ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, Scientific Systems Company, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria From reddy from cs.wayne.edu Tue Jun 17 10:14:14 2008 From: reddy from cs.wayne.edu (Chandan K. Reddy) Date: Tue Jun 17 12:35:00 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] CFP: 1st Workshop on Data Mining in Functional Genomics Message-ID: 1st Workshop on Data Mining in Functional Genomics in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Philadelphia, PA, USA, Nov. 5-7, 2008 http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~reddy/Workshop/DMFG08/ Workshop Description: Functional genomics is a sub-field of molecular biology that makes use of the enormous amounts of data produced by genomic projects to describe some dynamic aspects such as gene transcription, translation, and protein-protein interactions. Because these phenomena are typically characterized by large and increasing amounts of data, diverse and unusual data types, and complex relationships, interpreting such data requires novel approaches that include multiple tools, new algorithms, resources, etc. in an integrated fashion. Data Mining is the process of automatic discovery of novel, understandable and potentially useful models from such massive amounts of data. Organized in conjunction with BIBM 2008, the objective of this workshop is to facilitate collaboration between data mining researchers and bioinformaticians by presenting cutting-edge research topics and methodologies in the areas of functional genomics and data mining. While such research has an interdisciplinary character, this workshop emphasizes on the application of various data mining techniques such as data pre-processing, data visualization, model evaluation, classification and cluster analysis to research problems that arise in functional genomics. We encourage papers that employ data mining techniques for tasks related to functional genomics. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to the following topics: • Microarray Expression Analysis • Protein Structure Prediction • Protein-Protein Interactions • Sub-cellular Localization • Proteomics • Mass spectrometry • Integration of Heterogeneous data • Gene Ontology Paper Submission: Papers should be at most 8 pages long, including all figures, tables, and references. Papers should be submitted electronically by email to the workshop chairs in .pdf format. All papers accepted for this workshop will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2008 Final Camera-ready Paper Due: September 17, 2008 Workshop Day: November 5, 6, or 7, 2008 Workshop Organizers: Chandan K. Reddy Wayne State University Jiong Yang Case Western Reserve University From hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu Sun Jun 22 01:02:45 2008 From: hra from pixel.cviog.uga.edu (Hamid R. Arabnia) Date: Sun Jun 22 12:52:11 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Call For Participation: WORLDCOMP'08 Congress (CS and CE conferences), July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas Message-ID: <20080622060245.69BA122459D4@pixel.cviog.uga.edu> Call For Participation WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'08 Congress. WORLDCOMP'08 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 14-17, 2008. Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. See below for: the complete list of joint-conferences, list of sponsors, registration information, hotel information, and some highlights. LIST OF JOINT-CONFERENCES: o BIOCOMP'08: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology o CDES'08: Computer Design o CGVR'08: Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality o CIC'08: Communications in Computing o CSC'08: Scientific Computing o DMIN'08: Data Mining o EEE'08: e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government o ERSA'08: Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms o ESA'08: Embedded Systems & Applications o FCS'08: Foundations of Computer Science o FECS'08: Frontiers in Education: CS and CE o GCA'08: Grid Computing & Applications o GEM'08: Genetic & Evolutionary Methods o ICAI'08: Artificial Intelligence o ICOMP'08: Internet Computing o ICWN'08: Wireless Networks o IKE'08: Information & Knowledge Engineering o IPCV'08: Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition o ITSL'08: Information Theory & Statistical Learning o MLMTA'08: Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications o MSV'08: Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods o PDPTA'08: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications o SAM'08: Security & Management o SERP'08: Software Engineering Research & Practice o SWWS'08: Semantic Web & Web Services SPONSORS: (partial list) ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) o Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA o International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine o Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA o Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA o Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA o BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA o Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA o Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and MIT, USA o Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA o Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program George Mason University, Virginia, USA o Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA o Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa, USA o The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA o PSU - Prince Sultan University o Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. o NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, TU Vienna CORPORATE Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) o Google, Inc. o Salford Systems o Synplicity o NIIT Technologies OTHER Co-Sponsors: (a partial list) o High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano) o International Technology Institute (ITI) o GridToday o HPCwire o Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/PROGRAM: The complete WORLDCOMP'08 schedule/program is available at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/program REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To attend the congress, use the following online registration link: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/registration HOTEL RESERVATION: WORLDCOMP'08 will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ... The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf courses, ...). You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that you mention the Group Code "XWRLD8" (XWRLD8 is the keyword that the hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the Congress). You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is very close to being fully booked. There are also many other hotels nearby. KEYNOTE LECTURES: (this is a partial list) o The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0 Prof. David A. Patterson Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley. o Searching in the "Real World" Prof. Ophir Frieder The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director, Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS o Achieving your Dreams Anousheh Ansari CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA; and Space Ambassador o Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in Electronic System Designs Chris Phillips Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA o The Burgeoning Field of Network Science Dr. Frederick I. Moxley Department of Defense Fellow & Visiting Professor, Director of Research and Deputy Director of the Network Science Center; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department; United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA o High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA o The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics - A National Perspective Prof. Brian D. Athey Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine; Associate Director, U-M Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (CCMB); Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research; Principal Investigator, NIH National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics; The University of Michigan Medical School, USA o Unfoldomics" of Human Diseases Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky Senior Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA and Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia PLANNED TUTORIALS (this is a partial list): Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences (most are 3 1/2 hours long): o Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems Prof. H. J. Siegel Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Prof. of ECE & Prof. of CS; Director, CSU Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA o Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Source Trace Systems, Inc., USA o Sensor Networks - Technologies, Protocols and Algorithms Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA o Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications in Data Mining Ashu M. G. Solo Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA o A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies Mikhail Golovnya Senior Scientist, Salford Systems, USA o Exploration of Quantum Cryptography in Network Security Mehrdad S. Sharbaf Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA o Introduction to Asynchronous Circuits and NULL Convention Logic (NCL) Scott C. Smith, Waleed K. Al-Assadi, and Jia Di University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA; Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri, USA -> gratefully acknowledge the support from the National Science Foundation under (NSF) CCLI grants DUE-0536343, DUE-0717572, & DUE-0717767. o Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and possibly in C++) Prof. Ray Kresman Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA o Parallel-Coordinate-Plots at Age 30: Why and How GeoDa Software Works as a Powerful and Intuitive Method for Geovisualizing Demographic Data Prof. J. Kevin Byrne Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA & St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA o Teaching Graph Algorithms Using Java Online Package IAPPGA Prof. Mingshen Wu University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA o Introduction to Digital Forensics Research Prof. Robert F. Erbacher Utah State University, Utah, USA o Ontological Engineering: Analyzing, Designing and Implementing a Real-World Semantic Web Ontology Dr. Dan Dunne, Ontological Consultant, USA o Processing Geo-Semantic Knowledge and Visuals David Dodds Director, Open-Meta Computing Inc, Canada o Parallel Input/Output Techniques in High-Performance Computing Systems Prof. Jesus Carretero Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain If you would like to opt out from this list, reply with subject "opt out". From v from bio-complexity.com Tue Jun 24 12:49:48 2008 From: v from bio-complexity.com (Frank Emmert-Streib) Date: Tue Jun 24 17:18:01 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Postdoctoral Position in Computational Biology Message-ID: <57509.143.117.136.34.1214329788.squirrel@www.bio-complexity.com> Postdoctoral Position in Computational Biology A postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Biology and Machine Learning group at Queen's University Belfast. Our group is interested in the analysis of high-throughput data from microarray experiments from complex diseases and especially from cancer. We design, develop and apply computational and statistical methods with an emphasis on network-based methods to study pathway related questions. Current projects comprise but are not limited to the inference of gene networks and their analysis to obtain a functional understanding of molecular biological processes. Our group is located in the Center for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB). For more information about the group and projects visit www.bio-complexity.com . The qualified applicant should have a PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or related quantitative fields. Strong programming skills (R/python/C++/Java) in a Linux environment and experience in some of the fields: classification/clustering methods, graphical models, graph theory, Monte Carlo methods, optimization, statistical inference. Good communication skills are essential and knowledge in Molecular Biology is desirable. Experience to work with massive data sets is a plus. The ideal candidate would be self-propelled, enthusiastic and be able to work independently but goal oriented. The research of the successful candidate will contribute to the current projects of the group. Candidates on a senior level with strong publication record are especially encouraged. Interested applicants should apply here: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUBJobVacancies/JobDetails/?vac_no=08/100485&ref=08/100485 CLOSING DATE : Friday 11 July 2008. If you have questions please contact Frank Emmert-Streib (v at bio-complexity.com). From prash from ruc.dk Wed Jun 25 12:44:07 2008 From: prash from ruc.dk (Prash) Date: Wed Jun 25 17:15:49 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Confirmed speakers for BSB '08 Message-ID: <20080625194407.lvgnqv93440ks0s4@webmail-backend1.ruc.dk> Dear All, This year's BSB '08 would be interesting with exciting talks: http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/Bioinformatics_to_Systems_Biology_2008#Confirmed_speakers Best, Prash Prashanth Suravajhala PhD Fellow http://ruc.dk/~prash/ Join the Humanitarian Water and Food Award at http://www.vandogmadprisen.dk/" From lawyn from bii.a-star.edu.sg Wed Jun 25 19:55:08 2008 From: lawyn from bii.a-star.edu.sg (lawyn@bii.a-star.edu.sg) Date: Wed Jun 25 22:37:39 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] Submission deadline approaching: 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM08) Message-ID: <4190.10.217.2.228.1214441708.squirrel@webmail.bii-sg.org> ICDM '08: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining -------------------------------------------------------------- December 15-19, 2008 Pisa, Italy http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/ Important Dates --------------- June 30, 2008 Deadline for tutorial proposals July 7, 2008 Deadline for paper submission September 15, 2008 Notification to authors October 7, 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies December 15-19, 2008 Conference Call for Papers --------------- The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining, providing a leading forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM data mining contest. Paper Submissions ----------------- High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for ICDM '08. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/icdm06.xml ). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A double blind review process will be adopted. Authors should avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. A Submission Form to submit your work will be announced on the ICDM '08 website. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '08 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. ICDM Best Paper Awards ---------------------- IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best research paper award and application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. Workshops and Tutorials ----------------------- ICDM '08 will host short and long tutorials as well as workshops that focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. For further information on workshop and tutorial proposal submissions, please visit the conference website. ICDM Data Mining Contest ------------------------ ICDM '08 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further details on proposals and expression of interest, please see: http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/CallsFor/15/icdm-2008-data-mining-contest-call-for-proposals Topics of Interest ------------------ * Data mining foundations - Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis) - Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains - Developing a unifying theory of data mining - Mining sequences and sequential data - Mining spatial and temporal datasets - Mining textual and unstructured datasets - Distributed data mining - High performance implementations of data mining algorithms - Privacy- and anonymity-preserving data analysis * Mining in emerging domains - Stream Data Mining - Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks - Ubiquitous knowledge discovery - Mining multi-agent data - Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities - Mining the semantic web - Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks * Methodological aspects and the KDD process - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation - Utility assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing - Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining - Handling imbalanced data - Automating the mining process and other process related issues - Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models - Human-machine interaction for the KDD process - Visual analytics for data mining - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Data mining query languages - Security and data integrity * Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences - Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics - Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets - Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance - Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research - Customer relationship management - Telecommunications, network and systems management - Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems Organization ------------ Conference Co-chairs: Franco Turini (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA) Program Committee Chairs: Fosca Giannotti (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Dimitrios Gunopulos (UC Riverside, USA) Vice Chairs: Gennady Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino) Roberto Bayardo (Google, Inc.) Toon Calders (Eindhoven Technical University) Gautam Das (University of Texas at Arlington) Luc De Raedt (Leuven) Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland) Carlotta Domeniconi (George Mason University) Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego) Tapio Elomaa (University of Helsinki) Wei Fan (IBM) Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University) Aris Gionis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Hillol Kargupta (University of Maryland) Eamonn Keogh (University of California ? Riverside) Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia) Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology) Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong) Giuseppe Manco (University of Calabria) Heikki Mannila (Helsinki University of Technology) Mirco Nanni (KDD Lab, ISTI ? CNR) Srinivasan Parthasarathy (The Ohio State University) Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) Rajeev Rastogi (Yahoo! Labs - Bangalore) Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University) Kyuseok Shim (KAIST) Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus) Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University) Steering Committee Chair: Xindong Wu (Univ. Vermont, USA) Tutorials Chairs: Dino Pedreschi (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Arno Siebes (Uthrecht Univ., The Netherlands) Workshops Chairs: Francesco Bonchi (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Bettina Berendt (Humbolt Univ. Berlin, Germany) Award Chair: Katharina Morik (Univ. Dortmund, Germany) Panels Chair: Jean-Francois Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, France) Exhibit and Demo Chairs: Michail Vlachos (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Haixun Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Atzori (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Yan-Nei Law (Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) Sponsorship Chairs: Antonio Gulli (Ask.com, Italy) Raffaele Perego (HPC Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Local Arrangements Chairs: Chiara Renso (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Tiziana Mazzone (KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) Local Arrangements Team: Miriam Baglioni, Michele Berlingerio, Andrea Mazzoni, Mirco Nanni, Ruggero Pensa, Fabio Pinelli, Simone Puntoni, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Salvatore Ruggeri, Roberto Trasarti (KDD Lab, Univ.Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy) Finance Chair: Dino Pedreschi (KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy) Further Information ------------------- icdm08-chair@isti.cnr.it icdm08-organizer@isti.cnr.it surface address: IEEE - ICDM08 KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR via A. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa, Italy Phone: +39 050 3152999 - 3153000 - 3153001 Fax: +39 050 3152040 From harald.meyer from univie.ac.at Fri Jun 27 02:26:56 2008 From: harald.meyer from univie.ac.at (Harald Meyer) Date: Fri Jun 27 12:22:57 2008 Subject: [Computational-biology] IWSOS 2008 - Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: <48649640.1060807@univie.ac.at> Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline for IWSOS 2008 has been ** EXTENDED ** to July 10, 2008. (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the announcement.) *************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- DEADLINE EXTENDED *************** IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): ** EXTENDED ** July 10, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): ext. to July 10, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, Scientific Systems Company, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria