[BiO BB] Call for Chapters: Biomedical Data and Applications by Springer

[Amandeep S. Sidhu]

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Call for Book Chapters

Biomedical Data and Applications

http://biomed.biomap.org/

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Editors: Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang
	 Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence, Curtin University of Technology,
Perth, Australia

Volume: Studies in Computational Intelligence Series

Publisher: Springer

http://www.springer.com/series/7092/

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Deadline: 15 June 2007
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Introduction:

The goal of this book is to cover biomedical data and applications identifying
new issues and directions for future research in biomedical domain. The book
will become a useful guide for researchers, practitioners, and graduate-level
students interested in learning state-of-the-art development in biomedical data
management, data-intensive bioinformatics systems, and other miscellaneous
biological database applications. The content of this book is at an introductory
and medium technical level.

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Topics:

Chapters in the book will broadly address following areas:

* Conceptual Models for Biological and Medical Data
* Data Representation and Visualization
* Biomedical Databases and Data Integration
* Biomedical Data Analysis and Interoperability
* Biological Query Processing, Query Optimization, and Information Retrieval
* Biomedical Ontologies and taxonomies
* Ontology-driven Biomedical Systems
* Computational Methods for Microarray analysis, Protein and RNA structure
prediction
* Feature selection and pattern discovery in biological data
* Modelling Biological Pathways
* Health Care Information Systems
* Electronic Health Records
* Biomedical Data Privacy and Security
* Clinical Assessment and Patient Diagnosis
* Disease Control and Prevention
* Data mining applications in bioinformatics, biomedicine, health care and other
biomedical domain areas

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Publication: The Book will be published in Studies in Computational Intelligence
of Springer in Late 2007. Studies in Computational Intelligence Series publishes
new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence.

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Submission Instructions: 

Papers should be original and should not be submitted for publication or
published elsewhere.

All papers are to be submitted electronically (PDF or MS word format preferred)
by email to: Amandeep.Sidhu at cbs.curtin.edu.ai

For details on how to prepare the manuscripts and style files refer to:
http://www.springer.com/west/home/new+&+forthcoming+titles+(default)?SGWID=4-40356-69-173623546-0&detailsPage=contentItemPage&contentItemId=149813&CIPageCounter=CI_FOR_AUTHORS_AND_EDITORS_PAGE1

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Important Dates:

June 15, 2007		Last day to email a letter of intent
			(including a tentative title, short summary of proposed topic, and a list of
authors)
July 31, 2007 		Deadline to submit a full book chapter paper
August 30, 2007		Notification of acceptance with referee comments and revision
comments
September 30, 2007	Deadline to submit final version of the accepted chapters in
camera-ready Springer format

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Editors:

Amandeep S. Sidhu, Prof. Tharam S. Dillon, Prof. Elizabeth Chang

Digital Ecosystems & Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University of
Technology, Australia

http://debii.curtin.edu.au/

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