From hlapp at gmx.net Sat May 7 07:41:26 2011 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:41:26 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Call for Lightning Talks for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) Message-ID: The Call for Lightning Talks is now open for the 2011 conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at http://ievobio.org/ocs/index.php/ievobio/2011. See below for instructions. Lightning talks are short presentations of 5 minutes. They are ideal for drawing the attention of the audience to new developments, tools, and resources, or to subsequent events where more in-depth information can be obtained. Please also see our FAQ for more information (http://ievobio.org/faq.html#lightning ). Lightning talks will be part of the more interactive afternoon program on both conference days. Submitted talks should be in the area of informatics aimed at advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity, including new tools, cyberinfrastructure development, large-scale data analysis, and visualization. Submissions consist of a title and an abstract at most 1 page long. The abstract should provide an overview of the talk's subject. Reviewers will judge whether a submission is within scope of the conference (see above). If applicable, the abstract must also state the license and give the URL where the source code is available so reviewers can verify that the open-source requirement(*) is met. Review and acceptance of lightning talks will be on a rolling basis. The deadline for submission is the morning of the first day of the conference (June 21). Note that the number of lightning talk slots is finite, and given the high volume of submissions we experienced for full talks, the Lightning Talks track may fill up early. We cannot accept lightning talks until the open-source requirements are met, and so waiting with that until the deadline risks that the track is full by that time. We ask all submitters of lightning talks to be willing to also serve as reviewers of such, as described above. Lightning talks are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks (closed), 2) Challenge entries, 3) Software bazaar demonstrations, and 4) Birds-of- a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Challenge entries remains open (see http://ievobio.org/challenge.html) , and information on the Software Bazaar and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions is forthcoming. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio. iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2011 Organizing Committee: Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) (co-Chair) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) (co-Chair) Dawn Field (UK National Environmental Research Center) Mark Holder (University of Kansas) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Rod Page (University of Glasgow) (*) iEvoBio and its sponsors are dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development (see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) and reuse within the research community. For this reason, if a submitted talk concerns a specific software system for use by the research community, that software must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/), and be available for download, including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used version control system like cvs, Subversion, git, Bazaar, or Mercurial. From hlapp at gmx.net Fri May 13 21:52:15 2011 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:52:15 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Call for Challenge entries for conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) Message-ID: <94140FA8-3756-44E9-B607-310F7ECBAB45@gmx.net> The conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) is holding a Challenge, a competition to create a new software tool, or add a new feature to an existing platform. Entries to the Challenge need to respond to its theme, which for 2011 is "Data Integration". Improving our understanding of the evolution of life requires combining data sets from a wide variety of disparate sources. Thus, data integration poses a serious challenge for evolutionary research. Entries for the 2011 iEvoBio challenge must enable new approaches to data interoperability or represent an exceptional example of integrating existing sources of data. Further information on the nature of challenge entries and how to submit them can be found on the iEvoBio website at http://ievobio.org/challenge.html . Selected candidates will make short oral presentations to demonstrate their work in a "Challenge session" at the conference, and if suitable will automatically be entered into the Software Bazaar track of the conference. Cash prizes will be awarded for first place ($1,000) and runner-up entries. The winning entries will be selected by a vote of the iEvoBio meeting participants. Challenge entries are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks (closed), 2) Lightning talks, 3) Software Bazaar entries, and 4) Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings. The Call for Lightning Talks is currently open (see http://ievobio.org/ocs/index.php/ievobio/2011/) , and the information on Software Bazaar entries is forthcoming. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/ iEvoBio , or subscribe to the low-traffic iEvoBio announcements mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society for the Study of Ecolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2011 Organizing Committee: Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) (Co-chair) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) (Co-chair) Dawn Field (UK National Environmental Research Center) Mark Holder (University of Kansas) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Rod Page (University of Glasgow) From a.gopee at utm.intnet.mu Thu May 19 21:39:31 2011 From: a.gopee at utm.intnet.mu (ajit) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 05:39:31 +0400 Subject: [BiO BB] list of variant antigens? Message-ID: <009501cc168e$c6670870$53351950$@gopee@utm.intnet.mu> Dear all Grateful if someone could help me ; suggest how I can get a list of variant antigens in some common pathogens? Thanking you a lot for your precious time... Ajit From jpt at Cs.Nott.AC.UK Fri May 20 09:17:03 2011 From: jpt at Cs.Nott.AC.UK (jpt at Cs.Nott.AC.UK) Date: 20 May 2011 14:17:03 +0100 Subject: [BiO BB] Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Stream Message-ID: <201105201421.aa26648@pat.Cs.Nott.AC.UK> [We would be grateful if you could disseminate this call for abstracts] OR53 Annual Conference Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Stream *Extended* deadline for abstract submission: June 13, 2011 ********************************************************** The aim of this stream is to build a bridge between the research fields of Operational Research and Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology. On one hand, this stream focuses on the application of OR approaches to biological problems, in particular to those in Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology. On the other hand, it also aims at showcasing to the OR community a whole new set of possible applications and challenges for their methods. The scope of this stream includes (but is not limited to): - Synthetic and Systems Biology - Modelling, simulation and optimisation of biological systems - Data mining of biological databases - Data analysis of the -omics universe (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) - Computer Vision methods for the imaging of biological tissue - Sequence analysis - Structural Bioinformatics - Text Mining and Ontologies - Genome-wise analysis - Gene expression and signalling networks The best contributions to the stream will be invited to submit extended versions of their abstracts to an special issue of the Memetic Computing journal dedicated to "Operational Research for Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology". Please feel free to contact the stream organisers if you have any questions regarding the applicability of a potential submission or any other questions in relation to this stream. If you would like to give a talk in this stream, please submit a title and an extended abstract (which can be as short as half a page or up to 6 pages) via http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/orcontent.aspx?inc=or53_main.htm and selecting 'Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology' as stream. Further details: * Conference web site: http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/orcontent.aspx?inc=or53_main.htm * Call for papers: http://www.orsoc.org.uk/conf/or53/or53_CallForPapers.pdf * Deadline for abstract submission: June 13th, 2011. * Conference location and dates: East Midlands Conference Center, U.K., 6th-8th September, 2011. Organisers: Dr. Jamie Twycross Centre for Plant Integrative Biology University of Nottingham jpt at cs.nott.ac.uk Dr. Jaume Bacardit School of Computer Science & School of Biosciences University of Nottingham jqb at cs.nott.ac.uk Stream Sponsors: - The SynBioNT synthetic biology network (http://www.synbiont.org/) - The Logistics of Small Things (http://www.thelogisticsofsmallthings.net) From hlapp at gmx.net Sat May 21 21:27:16 2011 From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 21:27:16 -0400 Subject: [BiO BB] Call for Software Bazaar entries open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio) Message-ID: The Call for Software Bazaar entries is now open for the 2011 conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at http://ievobio.org/ocs/index.php/ievobio/ 2011. See below for instructions. The Software Bazaar features presenters demonstrating their software live on a laptop. At iEvoBio, this session takes the place of a poster session, and will be approximately 2.0 hours in duration. Conference attendees will be able to walk from one demonstration to the next and open a conversation with the presenters. Please also see our FAQ for this information (http://ievobio.org/faq.html#software). The Software Bazaar is part of the interactive afternoon program on the first conference day. Entries should be software aimed at advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity, and can include interactive visualizations that have been pre-computed (such as SVGs, or Google Earth-compatible KML files). Submissions consist of a title, which will typically be the name of the software (or visualization method) being presented, the URL of a website where more information about the software can be obtained, and the license under which the source code is available. The provided website must contain a link to where the source code (and possibly binaries) can be downloaded. If it is not obvious from the provided website, the submission must describe what the software does. Reviewers will judge whether a submission is within scope of the conference (see above), and need to be able to verify whether the open- source requirement(*) is met. Presenters are expected to bring their own laptops for presentation, and any auxiliary devices necessary (such as a mouse). Power will be available at the presentation tables (110V/60Hz, US-style plugs; international presenters need to bring a suitable adaptor). Please let the organizing committee know as much in advance as possible if you expect to have unusually high demands for wireless network bandwidth, a large display, or other hardware. Note that commercial marketing activities are not permitted - presenters wishing to promote commercial or proprietary services or products should contact the Evolution conference about exhibitor space. Review and acceptance of Software Bazaar submissions will be on a rolling basis. The deadline for submission is the morning of the first day of the conference (June 21). As the number of Software Bazaar presentation slots is finite, we cannot guarantee the availability of slots up until the day of the conference. We cannot accept submissions until the open-source requirements are met. We ask all submitters of Software Bazaar presentations to be willing to also serve as reviewers of such, as described above. Software Bazaar demonstrations are only 1 of 5 kinds of contributed content that iEvoBio will feature. The other 4 are: 1) Full talks (closed), 2) Lightning talks, 3) Challenge entries, and 4) Birds-of-a- Feather gatherings. The Calls for Challenge entries (http://ievobio.org/challenge.html ) and Lightning Talks (same submission URL as above) remain open, and information on the Birds-of-a-Feather session is forthcoming. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio. iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2011 Organizing Committee: Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) (Co-chair) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) (Co-chair) Dawn Field (UK National Environmental Research Center) Mark Holder (University of Kansas) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Rod Page (University of Glasgow) (*) iEvoBio and its sponsors are dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development (see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) and reuse within the research community. For this reason, software to be demonstrated to conference attendees must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License (see http://www.opensource.org/ licenses/), and be available for download, including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used version control system like cvs, Subversion, git, Bazaar, or Mercurial. Authors are advised that non-compliant submissions must be revised to meet the requirement by June 21 at the latest, and in the event that presentation slots run out, precedence is established by the date they are first found in compliance, not the date of submission. From daniele.gianni at gmail.com Mon May 30 16:46:15 2011 From: daniele.gianni at gmail.com (Daniele Gianni) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:46:15 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] Fw: IEEE e-Science 2011 workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: IEEE e-Science 2011 Workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing ======================================================================== 5th December 2011, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/david.johnson/wisc11/ The seventh IEEE e-Science conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5th - 8th December 2011. The Workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing will be held on the morning of Monday 5th of December, and is co-located with the main conference. Approaches to modelling take many forms. The mathematical, computational and encapsulated components of models can be diverse in terms of complexity and scale, as well as in published implementation (mathematics, source code, and executable files). Many of these systems are attempting to solve real-world problems in isolation. However the long-term scientific interest is in allowing greater access to models and their data, and to enable simulations to be combined in order to address ever more complex issues. Markup languages, metadata specifications, and ontologies for different scientific domains have emerged as pathways to greater interoperability. Domain specific modelling languages allow for a declarative development process to be achieved. Metadata specifications enable coupling while ontologies allow cross platform integration of data. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from across scientific disciplines whose computational models require interoperability. This may arise through interactions between different domains, systems being modelled, connecting model repositories, or coupling models themselves, for instance in multi-scale or hybrid simulations. The outcomes of this workshop will be to better understand the nature of multidisciplinary computational modelling and data handling. Moreover we hope to identify common abstractions and cross-cutting themes in future interoperability research applied to the broader domain of scientific computing. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for high-quality papers (up to 8 pages in length) within the context of scientific computing in any of the traditional sciences (physics, chemistry, biology), engineering, or scientific/mathematical modelling applied to the social sciences and humanities. Papers should address progress, results or positions in one or more of the following areas: * Use of metadata standards for annotating scientific models and data * Curating and publishing digital models and data to online repositories * Meta-modelling and markup languages for model description * Theoretical frameworks for combining disparate models, multi-scale models * Using standardised data formats in computational models * Domain-specific ontologies for the sciences It is expected that the proceedings of the e-Science 2011 workshops will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from here: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confere nceTemplates.html. Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines should be submitted through the EasyChair submission system here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=wisc11 Note, papers should NOT be submitted to the main e-Science 2011 paper submission system, as they will not be directed to the workshop organisers. It is requested that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference and workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: Monday 18th July 2011 Notification of acceptance: 18th August 2011 Camera-ready: 16th September 2011 Workshop date: 5th December 2011 CHAIRS/ORGANISERS David Johnson, Steve McKeever, (University of Oxford, UK) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE David Nickerson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Herbert Sauro (University of Washington, USA) Steve Harris (University of Oxford, UK) Jonathan Cooper (University of Oxford, UK) Rutger Vos (University of Reading, UK) Dagmar Waltemath (University of Rostock, Germany) Daniele Gianni (European Space Agency) Mike Stout (University of Nottingham, UK) From paolo.romano at istge.it Tue May 31 05:15:59 2011 From: paolo.romano at istge.it (Paolo Romano) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15:59 +0200 Subject: [BiO BB] NETTAB 2011: Announcement and Call for papers Message-ID: <201105310916.p4V9G6rD011940@clus2.istge.it> Dear all, I'm extremely glad to announce next NETTAB workshop and send you the Call for submissions. A Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics will be published with extended and revised versions of best contributions to the workshop. I apologize for possible duplications. Best regards. Paolo Romano ==== NETTAB 2011 on "Clinical Bioinformatics" October 12-14, 2011 Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy http://www.nettab.org/2011/ NETTAB 2011 is the eleventh in a series of international workshops on Network Tools and Applications in Biology. These workshops are aimed at presenting and discussing emerging ICT technologies whose adoption in support of biology could be of particular interest. This year, NETTAB is focused on Clinical Bioinformatics and it is aimed at presenting the methods, tools and infrastructures that are nowadays available. It will also show some of the most interesting applications in this field. Invited Speakers Yves A. Lussier, Institute for Translational Medicine, University of Chicago, USA Thomas Illig, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum M?nchen, Neuherberg, Germany Jan-Eric Litton, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Isacc S. Kohane, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Tutorials given by: Carlo Combi, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay, France Marco Masseroli (to be confirmed), Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Amnon Shabo, IBM REserach Lab, Haifa, Israel Call for Papers Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics: - Methods and Technologies: Data warehouse - Natural Language Processing - Data Mining - Ontologies, Interoperability, Standardisation - Search Computing - Decision Support - Tools: ICT architectures to support - Clinical research ? BioBanks ? Software for next generation sequencing - Data management and storage - Applications: Risk assessment ? Diagnosis ? Therapy planning- Drug Design Type of contributions: Oral communications ? Posters - Software demoes Contributions length: - oral communications: between 3 and 5 pages - posters and demoes: no more than 3 pages Deadlines: ? July 15, 2011: Oral communications submission ? September 5, 2011: Posters and demoes submission Submit your contribution through the EasyChair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2011 All contributions submitted to NETTAB 2011 will be invited to a restricted Call for full research papers to be published in a Supplement of BMC Bioinformatics. Registration You can register to the NETTAB 2011 workshop by using the form at http://www.nettab.org/2011/rform.html Early registration ends within September 30, 2011. Visit the website http://www.nettab.org/2011/ Contact the organization by sending an email message to nettab at unipv.it . Paolo Romano (paolo.romano at istge.it) Bioinformatics National Cancer Research Institute (IST) http://www.nettab.org/ NETTAB Workshops. Stay tuned! ======= ATTENZIONE. Il presente messaggio ed i suoi allegati devono intendersi ad uso esclusivo dei suoi destinatari e sono confidenziali. Persone diverse dal destinatario, anche ai sensi del D.Lgs. n. 196/2003 , non debbono prendere visione dei contenuti, copiare od inoltrare l'e-mail a terzi. Se ricevete questo messaggio per errore, Vi preghiamo di cancellarlo, di distruggerne ogni copia e di informarci immediatamente. La mail non ? un protocollo sicuro, pertanto IST declina ogni responsabilit? in caso di intercettazione o modifiche del presente messaggio. WARNING. This message and any attachments is intended solely for the use of the intended addressees and is confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. 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Mail is not a secure protocol, therefore IST will not be liable for interception or amendment of this message. ======= From cannataro at unicz.it Tue May 31 12:15:43 2011 From: cannataro at unicz.it (Mario Cannataro) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:15:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [BiO BB] HiBB 2011 Euro-Par WS on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (Deadline June 6, 2011) Message-ID: I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ===================================================================== 2nd International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB) August 30th 2011, Bordeaux, France HiBB 2011 http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/hibb2011/ held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2011 Bordeaux, France August 29th - September 2nd, 2011 http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/ ===================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * ===================================================================== High-throughput technologies (e.g. microarray and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging) are producing an increasing amount of experimental and clinical data. In such a scenario, large scale databases and bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine. High-performance computing may play an important role in many phases of life sciences research, from raw data management and processing, to data analysis and integration, till data exploration and visualization. In particular, at the raw data layer, Grid infrastructures may offer the huge data storage needed to store experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. At an higher layer, emerging biomedical applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks and patient?s clinical data, that require seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing. Service Oriented Architectures and semantic technologies, such as ontologies, may allow the building and deployment of the so called ?collaboratories?, where experimental research may be conducted by remote scientists in a collaborative way. The goal of HiBB is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance computing, computational biology and medicine to discuss, among the others, the organization of large scale biological and biomedical databases and the parallel implementation of bioinformatics algorithms and biomedical applications. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of biomedical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models (e.g. Cell, GPUs) for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes PROGRAM The workshop will take place on August, 30th. It is scheduled as full-day. The program is not available yet. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION We invite original previously unpublished contributions. Submission implies that at least one author will register for the workshops at Euro-Par 2011 and present the paper in the workshop session, if accepted. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Paper submission has to be performed by using the HiBB EasyChair submission server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hibb2011). In case of problems, authors may send their manuscript in PDF to the workshop chair: cannataro AT unicz.it. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (Latex or Word). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshops proceedings, that will be published in a separate Springer LNCS Euro-Par 2010 Workshop volume after the conference. Deadline for submitting camera Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign up a Springer copyright form. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE At the end of the workshop, we plan to invite the best 4-6 papers of the workshop for a special section on an international journal. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers submission: June 6, 2011 Decision Notification: July 15, 2011 Final papers due: August 5, 2011 Workshop session: August 30, 2011 Final review comments: October 1, 2011 Camera ready papers for EuroPar Workshop Proceedings: October 15, 2011 WORKSHOP ORGANIZER Mario Cannataro, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 2. David A. Bader, College of Computing, Georgia University of Technology, USA 3. Ignacio Blanquer; Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain 4. Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University, USA 5. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK 6. Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA 7. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 8. Vicente Hern?ndez, Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain 9. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 10. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK 11. Richard Sinnott; National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom 12. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 13. Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve University, USA 14. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 15. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia