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The International Symposium on Big Data
and BioComputation

BIOCOMPUTATION 2016
June 26 - 30, 2016 - Lisbon, Portugal


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This symposium is part of BIOTECHNO 2016.

 
   
   

Call for Papers:

Understanding biological systems as computational devices situates at the intersection of Bio aspects and Computational aspects. BioComputation encompasses computation aspects related to living universe. The data on living universe reached a high volume (Big Data) and only a small fraction could be considered until the high computation power and large size storage became available. Cloud and GPU (Graphical Process Units) technologies allow a great level of parallelism and resource sharing, making it possible to process such large data. However, context-sensitivity, privacy, legal/regulatory aspects, as well as specific requirements for dedicated applications (healthcare, wearable/implantable devices) are concerns to still be solved. Large-scale BioComputation benefits from Big Data-oriented solutions and signs to overpass nowadays challenges are high.

BIOCOMPUTATION 2016, The International Symposium on Big Data and BioComputation, is dedicated to advances and challenges on the following topics.

Topics:

Big Data and Context-sensitive Computation
Big Data and Cloud Technology and Services in BioComputation
Big Data, Cloud computing and GPU (Graphical Process Units) for BioComputation
Scale-up and high-performance techniques for data-centric BioComputation
Big Data and Prediction Computational Models
Big Data Computation Applications
Big Data and Evolution Models
Big Data and BioStatistics
Big Data and Personalized Healthcare Computation
Big Data in Genome Analytics
Big Data and Computation on Illness Patterns/Variations (cancer, diabetes, etc.)
Big Data and Donor Information
Big Data and Drugs-related Computation
Big Data and Health/eHealth/Telemedicine Computation
Big Data and Computation in Clinical Context
Big Data and BioImage Computation
Big Data and Molecular Modeling
Big Data and Computational Physics
Big Data and Biological Systems
Big Data and Scalability of BioComputation Tools
Big Data and Trusted Bio-Datasets
Big Data BioComputation and Regulator Borders

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)

Feb 9 March 10, 2016

Notification

April 9, 2016

Registration

April 23, 2016

Camera ready

May 17, 2016

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

  • regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
  • doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

Details on contributions and proposals.

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

Committees:

BIOCOMPUTATION 2016 Advisory Committee

Hesham H. Ali, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Bing Wang, Tongji University, China
Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

BIOCOMPUTATION 2016 Program Committee Members

Hesham H. Ali, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA  
Khalid Belhajjame, Paris Dauphine University, France  
Zhiwei Cao, Tongji University, China  
John Carlis, University of Minnesota, USA  
Juan Miguel Cejuela, Technische Universität München, Germany
Alexey Cheptsov, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany  
Matthias Chung, Virginia Tech, USA  
Raffaele A. Calogero, University of Torino, Italy  
Angelo Facchiano, Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione - CNR, Italy
Fabio Fumarola, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
Mohamed Ghalwash, Temple University, USA
Saman K. Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia  
Steffen Heber, North Carolina State University, USA  
Uri Hershberg, Drexel University, USA  
Sheng-Jun Huang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China  
Philippe Hupé, Institut Curie, CNRS UMR 144, INSERM U900, Mines ParisTech, France
Sumit Kumar Jha, University of Central Florida, USA  
John Karro, Miami University, USA  
Daniel Lorenz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany  
Donato Malerba, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy  
Tobias Marschall, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany  
Fabio Mavelli, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy  
Radha Nagarajan, University of Kentucky, USA  
Alberto Policriti, Università di Udine / Istituto di Genomica Applicata (IGA), Italy  
Laura Pullum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University, Japan  
Simone Scalabrin, IGA Technology Services, Italy  
Friedhelm Schwenker, University of Ulm, Germany  
Ugo Vaccaro, Universita` di Salerno, Italy  
Luigi Varesio, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Italy  
Bing Wang, Tongji University, China  
Di Wu, University of Texas at Austin, USA  
Yuan Zhang, Samsung Research America, USA  
Leming Zhou, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Publishing Information:

Published by IARIA XPS Press

Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

conference contact: [email protected]

ISBN: 978-1-61208-488-6


Submit a Paper:

First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.

As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.

If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).

The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.

You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.

Touristic Information:

Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Hotels and Travel:

Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Tutorials:

Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Preliminary Program:

Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Camera Ready:

The link below contains the details on how to upload the final version of your paper to the publisher. The upload should be done after registering your article via the Registration Form.

Publication Site for BIOTECHNO 2016 (includes BIOCOMPUTATION 2016)

Publication details are in the Call for Papers, namely "Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost". The costs of additional pages are on thethe Registration Form.

If you have any questions about the paper upload process, please contact the proceedings production editor, Sandra.

Registration Form:

Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. The student rate is the lowest registration rate listed in the registration form.

One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter. If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered paid for with a separate form.

Every participant must register separately: if two co-authors attend, each of them has to register

Support letters for entry visa will only be issued to attendees who have successfully paid their registration fees in full.

 

Registration form:

The registration form can be found here.

Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "guest" in the registration form.

Note: For any registration related questions, please contact [email protected] or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Support letters

It is solely the responsibility of the participants and their corporations/universities to obtain the necessary travel visa.
The association can only issue a support letter stating that a registered participant has an accepted paper and that the participant is expected to have an oral presentation.
For questions or requests related to entry visa support letters, please contact [email protected] or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Hotel information

For a group registration rate at the conference hotel, you can use this form. The booking is done directly to the hotel by the attendee; hotel contact information is on the form. If this is not a suitable option, you can book any hotel you decide.

 

Attendance guidelines:

During IARIA events, photos and recordings may be made. By registering to and/or attending IARIA events, you consent to allow IARIA to make and distribute such material for informational, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic media.

Video recording of presentations by attendees are not allowed without written permission from IARIA and the on-site OK of the presenter.

Copyrighted presentation material may be photographed or copied for personal use only, not for reproduction or distribution. Material labeled confidential or proprietary may not be photographed or copied.

Presence:

If for unforeseen reasons physical presence at the conference location is not  possible, proceedings will not be mailed as the articles are freely available from ThinkMind digital library, www.thinkmind.org

Statistics:

Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Photos:

Photos are available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

Awards:

Awards are available from the hosting conference page, BIOTECHNO 2016.

 
 

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