[BiO BB] ITBAM 2012 Call for Papers

Prof. Roland Wagner rwagner at faw.at
Mon Jan 2 07:21:48 EST 2012


Apologies in advance for multiple received copies of the CFP.


Call for Papers - ITBAM '12

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3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and 
Medical Informatics - ITBAM 2012
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 7, 2012
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Data intensive disciplines, such as life sciences and medicine, are 
promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern 
technologies, such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, 
micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and 
continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide 
access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein 
sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and 
scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available 
information to study biomedical systems, ranging from single cells to 
complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the 
vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering 
scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical 
application scenarios for research in the database community include but 
are not limited to:
.    Systems biology
.    Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
.    Genome-wide association studies
.    Drug target discovery and personalized medicine
.    Neuroscience
.    Electronic patient records
.    Patient monitoring
.    Surgery planning and support
.    etc.
Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of 
these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area 
of research in information technology:
.    Administration of vast amounts of data
.    Integration of heterogeneous data sources
.    Federated and distributed databases
.    Data warehouses
.    Data mining techniques like classification, clustering, association 
rule mining, etc.
.    Decision support systems
.    Information and image retrieval
.    Signal processing and streaming databases
.    Privacy protection and data security
.    Data quality assurance
.    Process management and collaborative work
.    User interfaces and visualization
.    Interoperability and standardization
.    etc.
Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences 
and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. The 
path from an idea to a practical application is often long and 
laborious, involving intensive interactions between experts in 
information technology, life sciences and the medical field. ITBAM 
accompanies and supports this path by providing an excellent venue for 
the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction 
among interdisciplinary researchers.
In addition to the regular conference program featuring presentations of 
full and short research papers published in the proceedings, ITBAM 
encourages the submission of posters reporting work in progress. All 
accepted posters will be displayed during the whole event and abstracts 
will also be included in the proceedings.

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IMPORTANT DATES
.    Submission of full papers (firm): March 12, 2012
.    Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2012
.    Submission of posters (firm): May 14, 2012
.    Camera-ready copies due: June 15, 2012
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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.
.    Paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format. Poster 
submissions are expected to consist of 1 page Abstract 
(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 registration and electronic submission see: 
http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/
.    The submission system will be open starting from January 2011.
.    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."

Accepted Papers:

All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted full papers will 
be of 15 pages length, short papers 8 pages. Authors of accepted papers 
must sign a Springer copyright release form. For further inquiries, 
please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela at dexa.org).

GENERAL CHAIRPERSON:
.    Christian Böhm, University of Munich, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRPERSONS:
.    Sami Khuri, San José State University, USA
.    Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic
.    M. Elena Renda, IIT - CNR, Pisa, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
to be announced


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Univ. Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner

Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

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