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CALL FOR
PAPERS
BIOCOMP'15
The 2015 International Conference on
Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
Paper Submission
Deadline: March 31, 2015
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You are invited
to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers
will be
published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will
also be made
available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science
citation
databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition, like
prior years,
extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the
conference will
appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include:
Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and
journal special
issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective
fields. See the link below for a very small subset of
the books
published mostly based on extended versions of the accepted
papers of this
congress:
The titles of
proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into
the ACM Digital
Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic
citations from
major publishers in computing.
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,
workshops,
poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,
same location
and dates: July 27-30, 2015.
SCOPE: Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Bioinformatics and Big Data
o Big Data in genomics and cancer research
o Microarrays
o Bioinformatics and new cloud resources
o Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular
interactions
o Molecular sequence classification, alignment
and assembly
o Molecular sequence and structure databases
o Computational Systems Biology
o Gene regulation
o Gene pattern discovery and identification
o Gene expression analysis; Gene expression
databases
o Genetic network modeling and inference
o Comparative genomics
o Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences
o RNA and DNA structure and sequencing
o Biomedical engineering
o Combinatorics and bioinformatics
o Biological data mining and knowledge
discovery
o Biological databases and information
retrieval
o Bio-ontologies + semantics
o Biological data integration and visualization
o Image processing in medicine and biological
sciences
o Pattern classification and recognition
o Sequence analysis and alignment
o Informatics and Statistics in
Biopharmaceutical Research
o Software tools and methods for computational
biology and bioinformatics
o Protein modeling
o Proteomics; Protein folding and fold
recognition
o Metabolic modeling and pathways
o Evolution and phylogenetics
o Macromolecular structure prediction
o Medical informatics
o Epidemic models
o Structural and functional genomics
o Amino acid sequencing
o Stochastic modeling
o Cheminformatics
o Computational drug discovery and experimental
medicine
o Cancer informatics
o Experimental studies and results
o Application of computational intelligence in
drug design
o High-performance computing and applications
in biology
o Computer-based medical systems (automation in
medicine, ...)
o Other aspects & applications relating to
technological advancements
in medicine & biological sciences &
emerging roadmaps.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 31,
2015: Submission of full papers (about
7 pages)
April 24,
2015: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 15,
2015: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 27-30,
2015: The 2015 International Conference
on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
(BIOCOMP'15)
SUBMISSION OF
DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the
evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by
the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and
references.) All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,
the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting
format to prepare their final papers for publication; these
formatting
instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org and they
conform to the
two-column IEEE style format). Papers must not have been
previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
postal address, and email address for each author as well
as a maximum of
5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper.
The first page should also identify the name of the
Contact/Corresponding
author together with his/her professional email
address. A 100
to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
Authors are to
conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The
document for the
Code of Ethics is available on the submission web site.)
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would
be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this
would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers
whose authors
include a member of the conference program committee will
be evaluated
using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical
papers will not
be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and
will also be
made available online. The printed proceedings/books will
be available for
distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings
will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data.
The proceedings/books of the federated congress that
this conference
is part of have been evaluated for inclusion into major
science citation
index databases. We are happy to report that so far,
the evaluation
board of science citation index databases have approved
the indexing,
integrating, and inclusion of the following conference
tracks into
relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include,
among others:
Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others):
BIOCOMP, DMIN,
GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM. All
proceedings are
also approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com),
one of the
largest subject index systems.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each
series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science
and Applied Computing) and another with Springer
publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18
months), a
significant number of authors of accepted papers of our
congress, will
be given the opportunity to submit the extended version
of their papers
for publication consideration in these books. We
anticipate
having between 10 and 20 books a year in each of these
book series
projects. Each book in each series will be subject to
Elsevier and
Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
a very small
subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have
been published
based on the extended versions of our congress papers,
see below:
Some of these
books and journal special issues have already received
the top 25%
downloads in their respective fields - we already have a
number of
Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline.
SUBMISSION OF
POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers
can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions
that appear in section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR
EVALUATION -
except that the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the
first page, the
author should state that "This paper is being submitted
as a
poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published as such, if
and only if the
author of the accepted poster wishes to do so.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the
federated
congress that this conference is part of has included (in recent
years): Dr.
Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel
Corporation,
USA) Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc.,
USA; Prof. Nizar
Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair, and Vice Chair
of
IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit,
Michigan, USA;
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science,
Elected Fellow
of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing
(Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner,
Professor of
Engineering Practice, University of Southern California,
USA (and Adjunct
Professor, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA,
USA); Prof.
Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information Management, Central
Police
University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan
and Director,
Information Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG;
Prof. Michael
Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer Systems and
Director of
Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms
and
architectures Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece;
Prof. Kevin
Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer
Science and
Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy,
Detroit,
Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM,
WASE and
Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished
Guest Professor,
University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri,
Georgian
Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at
The Institute of
Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia;
Prof. D. V.
Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE
Institute,
India; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director,
School of
Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board
of IEEE IDAACS,
Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense
Competition,
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey,
Vice-Chancellor,
Arunachal University of Studies, India (and Adjunct
Professor,
Indian Institute of Information Technology, India);
Prof. James J.
(Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering,
Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of FTRA,
Editor-in-Chief
of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof. Fernando G.
Tinetti,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Co-editor, Journal
of CS and
Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington,
USA; Prof.
Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of
Telecommunications,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila,
Air Force
Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM,
Air Force Center
of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales
Fellows &
Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC
member of NATO
Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE);
Prof. Victor
Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department,
Russian Academy
of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP,
Director of HoIP
Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of WABT and
Vice-president
of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK;
Ashu M. G. Solo,
Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal/
Interdisciplinary
R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America; Prof.
Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science,
Vice President,
of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of
Intelligent
Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com.,
Texas, USA;
Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The
National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South
Bioinformatics Center
and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of
Arkansas, USA;
Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing Communications
Lab. (MPCL), SunMoon
University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong,
Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Dongguk
University, Seoul,
South Korea; and others.
The 2015 Program
Committee for individual conferences are currently being
compiled. Many
who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,
scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;
many are
directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/
chairs of
departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as
well as
university presidents, deans and provosts.
Program
Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented
research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should
email editor@world-comp.org the following information
for
consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
email address, a
one-page biography that includes research expertise & the
name of this
conference.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
The federated
Congress ( http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ ) that
this conference
is part of is composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures,
invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster
presentations.
In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included:
Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr.
K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H.
Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof.
Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago &
ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof.
Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof.
John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian
D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF
Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute
of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic),
Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and
Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System
Exploration),
Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH
Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H.
Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell
University -
formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former
director of
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science
Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof.
Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,
USA); Prof.
Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv
University,
Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the
multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and
author of
textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE
and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science
and Technology
Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);
Prof. Amit Sheth
(Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;
Founder/Executive
Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled
Computing
(Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State
University,
Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and
Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force
Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA
and Chair of
IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John
McLucas Award,
the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);
and many other
distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five
largest annual
gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from
about 85
countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on
"Start
SlideShow" tab at the url above.)
An important
mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers,
educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach
out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as:
universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research
centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to
connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main
mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as
their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its
institution and geography diversity objectives."
One main goal of
the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research
conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting
held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates
communication among researchers in different fields of computer
science,
computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also
encourages
multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
i.e.,
facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December
8, 2014, proceedings of the federated congress that this
conference is
part of, have received over 27,878 citations (includes 3,346
self-citations).
Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.
The citation
data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations
to papers
published by conferences whose first offerings were initiated
by this
congress. Individual proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated
congress can be
purchased from major science book distributors:
(such as: EBSCO
and others):
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information
that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 1, 2015.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org