[Bioclusters] Last Call for Papers: Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics

David Wolfe Corne bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:19:38 +0000 (GMT)


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=09=09=09        EVOBIO 2003

              1ST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
                             AND BIOINFORMATICS

                   University of Essex, April 14-16, 2003

                   http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio.html
           http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evobio.html

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EvoBIO is the first workshop of the newly formed EvoNet (European Network o=
f
Excellence in Evolutionary Computation) working group on bioinformatics.

EvoBIO covers research in all aspects of computational intelligence in
bioinformatics and computational biology.

The emphasis is on algorithms based on evolutionary computation, on neural
networks and on other novel optimisation and machine learning methods,
that address important problems in molecular biology, genomics and genetics=
,
that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and test=
ed
in simulations and on real datasets.

The goal of the workshop is to present recent research results, including
significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of
future research, besides stimulating closer interaction between members of
this scientific community working on Bioinformatics.

Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and printed in
the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series.

The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in
Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2003, th=
e
European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 14-16).

Submissions

To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4
pages) via email to evobio@cs.vu.nl no later than November 20, 2002.
Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be
peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be
notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2002.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basi=
s
of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version
of their manuscripts by January 17, 2003.

By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one
author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop.

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Organizing Commitee:

EvoBIO Chairs:

     Dave W. Corne

     School of Computer Science, Cybernetics
     University of Reading
     d.w.corne@reading.ac.uk
     http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~ssscorne/
     phone: +44 118 931 8983
     fax: +44 118 975 1994

     Elena Marchiori
     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
     Free University Amsterdam
     de Boelelaan 1081a
     1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     elena@cs.vu.nl
     http://www.cs.vu.nl/~elena
     phone: +31(0)20 444 7738
     fax: +31(0)20 444 7653

     EvoBIO 2003 Program Committee :

        * Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, University of Seville (Spain)
        * Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund (Germany)
        * Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan
          (Poland)
        * Carlos Cotta-Porras, University of M=E1laga (Spain)
        * Bogdan Filipic, Department of Intelligent Systems, Ljubljana
          (Slovenia)
        * Gary B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. (USA)
        * James Foster, University of Idaho (USA)
        * Steven A. Frank, University of California, Irvine (USA)
        * Jin-Kao Hao, LERIA, Universite d'Angers, (France)
        * William Hart, Sandia National Labs (USA)
        * Francisco Herrera, University of Granada (Spain)
        * Daniel Howard, QinetiQ (UK)
        * Antoine van Kampen, AMC University of Amsterdam (The
          Netherlands)
        * Maarten Keijzer, Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
        * Douglas B. Kell, University of Wales (UK)
        * W.B. Langdon, UCL (UK)
        * Bob MacCallum, Stockholm University (Sweden)
        * Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University (Denmark)
        * Andrew C.R. Martin, University of Reading (UK)
        * Peter Merz, Eberhard-Karls-Universit=E4t T=FCbingen (Germany)
        * Martin Middendorf, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt
          (Germany)
        * Jason Moore, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA)
        * Pablo Moscato, The University of Newcastle (Australia)
        * Martin Oates, British Telecom Plc (UK)
        * Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham (UK)
        * Jem Rowland, Aberystwyth, The University of Wales (UK)
        * Vic J. Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia (England)
        * El-ghazali Talbi, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de
          Lille (France)
        * Eckart Zitzler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
          (Switzerland)

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     Important Dates:

     Submission deadline:         November 20, 2002
     Notification of acceptance:  December 20, 2002
     Camera ready due:            January 17, 2003
     Workshop:                    April 14-16, 2003

     Contacts:

     For any information please contact the EvoBIO chairs at evobio@cs.vu.n=
l