CALL for PAPERS and POSTERS
International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics
ITBAM ’10 (Conference, Workshops, Poster Sessions)
August 30 - September 3, 2010
Bilbao, Spain
in conjunction with the 21st DEXA – DEXA ’10: www.dexa.org
Scope of ITBAM Conference
The area of Information Technology is very important for Bio- as well as Medical Informatics.
The DEXA conference is dedicated to providing an international forum for presenting applications in the area of database and expert systems, enabling the exchange of ideas and experiences defining requirements for future systems.
Referring to current applications, Bio- and Medical Information Technology are areas confronting us with new challenges.
Both areas are characterized by producing mass data and by using federated databases transparently integrating multiple autonomous database systems into a single federated database
Further both areas are characterized by using different techniques common in the area of information systems.
Generally speaking, for storing, manipulating and locating information for particular questions within Bio- and Medical Informatics research and application, many well known tools, methods and algorithms have to be adopted or totally re-organized (in the sense of a new development) for these very important scientific disciplines. All those modern technologies like micro-arrays, high throughput mass-spectrometry, high-resolution imaging, huge literature databases, complexity of biological and medical databases (e.g. the human genome project provide the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome), a huge amount of information to study biological systems like cells, organs, or patients and many things more, are non trivial tasks representing new challenges to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into information supporting scientific progress and/or patient management.
Scientists working in this area originate from different departments and disciplines (informatics, mathematics, bioinformatics. biology, medicine, etc.). Therefore the area of Information Technology of Bio- and Medical Informatics is very heterogeneous. ITBAM should provide an opportunity for fruitful discussion between researchers and practitioners of different scientific disciplines for developing a common language for solving problems within information technology concerning bio and medical informatics together.
Scope of ITBAM Poster Session
ITBAM poster sessions should show first ideas of non ready publications and projects in progress within the area of information technology in bio- and medical-informatics. Poster sessions are mainly addressed to young researches like PhD students. All accepted posters will be shown during the whole DEXA / ITBAM event.
ITBAM invites researchers from universities and labs of companies to submit papers for the ITBAM conference, proposals for workshops and proposals for poster sessions on all topics related to information technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics including, but not limited to those listed below:
Topics:
* Administration of vast biological- and medical data
* Applications of Database-, Information-, Expert- and Decision-support systems
* Biological and medical image processing and –retrieval
* Biological and medical signal processing and interpretation
* Data and information modeling, integration, networks, privacy and security, quality, semantics and streams
* Data structure and data management
* Data and information systems architecture and performance
* Data mining, data warehousing
* Digital Libraries
* Distributed, parallel,P2P, and grid-based databases
* Electronic patient record
* Expert- and decision- support systems
* Information retrieval
* Internet computing and web applications
* Knowledge modeling and processing
* Knowledge and acquisition and management
* Metadata Management
* Mobile Data and information
* Multimedia databases
* Multi-databases and Database federation
* Query processing and optimisation
* Statistical and scientific databases
* User interfaces
* Workflow management and database
Important Dates:
ITBAM conference papers:
* Submission of full papers: March 7, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2010
* Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2010
ITBAM poster session:
* Poster submission deadline: May 31, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010
PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions or experience reports in English.
* The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings.
* Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
* Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review.
For paper registration and electronic submission see http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ starting January 2010.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission."
Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the PC-chairs.
ACCEPTED PAPERS:
All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted papers will be of two sizes: regular (15-page papers) and short (up to 8 pages). The former will tend to be descriptions of complete technical work, while the latter will tend to be descriptions of interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature. Authors of accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release form.
For further inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@dexa.org)
Committees:
Honorary Chairpersons:
Rudolf Freund, Technical University Vienna, Austria
Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France
Anna Tramontano, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
General Chairperson:
Roland R. Wagner, University Linz, Austria
Conference Program Chairpersons:
Sami Khuri, San José State University, USA
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Publication Chairperson:
Coral del Val Munoz, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Germany
Poster Session Chairpersons:
Vaclav Chudacek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Program Committee:
Werner Aigner, FAW, Austria
Fuat Akal, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, Switzerland
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Andreas Albrecht, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Lijo Anto, University of Kerala, India
Rubén Armañanzas Arnedillo, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Andreas Bernthaler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Balaram Bhattacharyya, Visva-Bharati University, India
Christian Blaschke, Bioalma Madrid, Spain
Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Brigitte Boeckmann, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Andreas M. Boehm, Rudolf-Virchow-Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Germany
Veselka Boeva, Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Gianluca Bontempi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Roberta Bosotti, Nerviano Medical Science s.r.l., Italy
Rita Casadio, University of Bologna, Italy
Sònia Casillas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Silvana Castano, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Carlo Cattani, Difarma, Università di Salerno,
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Vaclav Chudacek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Victor Cruz, CSIC Madrid, Spain
Bin Cui, Peking University, China
Coral del Val Muñoz, University of Granada, Spain
Qiwen Dong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Béatrice Duval, University of Angers, France
Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Mahmoud Elhefnawi, , Egypt
Mourad Elloumi, , Tunisia
Maria Federico, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Pedro Fernandes, Inst.Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Christoph M. Flamm, University of Vienna, Austria
Tomas Flouri, Czech Technical Univerity in Prague,
Rudolf Freund, European Molecular Computing Consortium, Austria
Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany
Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK
Alejandro Giorgetti, University of Verona, Italy
Hendrik Hache, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi, , Canada
Mihail Halachev, , Canada
Volker Heun, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, USA
Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Alastair Kerr, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sami Khuri, San Jose State University, USA
Ju Han Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea
Jihun Kim, National Institute of Health, Korea
Juergen Kleffe, Charite, Germany
Erich Peter Klement, University of Linz, Austria
Lubos Klucar, Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia
Hanka Kozankiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Martin Krallinger, National Center of Cancer Research (CNIO), Spain
Michal Krátký, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria
Gorka Lasso-Cabrera, CICbioGUNE, Spain
Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Tech, USA
Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea
Marc F. Lensink, SCMBB, Belgium
Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Roger Marshall, Plymouth Ystate University, USA
Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Università della Calabria, Italy
Henning Mersch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Silvia Miksch, Danube University Krems, Austria
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Göttingen, Germany
Tim Nattkemper, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jean-Christophe Nebel, Kingston University, UK
See Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Vit Novacek, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Philipp Pagel, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jean Peccoud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Francisco Pinto, ITQB, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Cinzia Pizzi, Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Clara Pizzuti, ICA-CNR, Italy
Uwe Plikat, Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA
Stefan-Lucian Pusca, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania
Nicole Radde, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Australia
Dietrich Rebholz, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy
Cristina Rubio-Escudero, University of Sevilla, Spain
Victor Sabbia, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Hershel Safer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Marie-France Sagout, INRIA, France
Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Meena K. Sakharkar, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Francisca Sánchez Jiménez, University of Málaga, Spain
Guido Sanguinetti, University of Sheffield, UK
Clare Sansom, Birkbeck College, UK
Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Kenji Satou, Kanazawa University, Japan
Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna, Austria
Jaime Seguel, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez,
Kathleen Steinhofel, King’s College London, UK
Ralf Tautenhahn, The Scripps Research Institute,
Ashish V Tendulkar, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, India
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
TIlman Todt, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto, Canada
Anna Tramontano, University of Rome „La Sapienza”, Italy
Oswaldo Trelles, University of Malaga, Spain
Paul van der Vet, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jano van Hemert, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jordi Villà i Freixa, Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) of IMIM/UPF, Spain
Susana Vinga, INESC-ID, Portugal
Jens Volkert, University of Linz, Austria
Arndt von Haeseler, University of Vienna, Austria
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Viacheslav Wolfengagen, JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia
Borys Wrobel, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Filip Zavoral, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Filip Zelezny, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China
Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, USA
Frank Gerrit Zoellner, University of Heidelberg, Germany
