[BioSQL-l] CFP: (IEEE CBMS2006) Special Track on Grids for
Biomedical Informatics
Maria Mirto
maria.mirto at unile.it
Wed Jan 4 05:15:32 EST 2006
Dear all,
Please find attached the Call For Papers for:
19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) -
Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA June 22-23 2006
http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2006/cfp.htm
http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM
****** DEADLINE for Submission ***** January 31, 2006 *******
The goal of this Conference Track is to discuss well-known and emerging
biomedical data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse
technologies and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these
environments. In particular, this track aims at offering a high level forum
for exchanging information, ideas, techniques and software on how to progress
in this rapidly evolving field, in order to support the advance in scientific
research education as well as industrial applications.
Best regards,
Maria Mirto.
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Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology)
Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering
University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
phone: +39-0832-297304, fax: +39-0832-297279
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Special Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics
CBMS 2006: IEEE on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society & ACM
June 22-23, 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Call for Papers
http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2006/cfp.htm
http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/
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Biomedical Informatics is quickly evolving into a research field that
encompasses the use of all kinds of biomedical information, from genetic and
proteomic data to image data associated with particular patients in clinical
settings.
Biomedical Informatics comprises the fields of Bioinformatics (e.g., genomics
and proteomics) and Medical Informatics (e.g., medical image analysis), and
deals with issues related to the access to information technology in
medicine, the analysis of genomics data, security, interoperability and
integration of data-intensive biomedical applications.
Main issues in this field are:
* Integration of multiple laboratories that collect large amounts of
biomedical data (genomics, post-genomics, biomedical images and signals), so
that researchers can:
- continue to maintain their own biomedical and computing resources
autonomously;
- face effectively the growth of data they need to manage and process,
exploiting recent methods such as data mining, taking into account that
biomedical data are produced and stored continuously; and
integrate and share data and findings in a controlled manner.
* Provision of large computing power such that researchers have access to
- high performance distributed computational resouces for
computationally demanding data analysis, e.g., medical image processing and
simulation of medical treatment or surgery;
- large storage capacity and distributed databases for the efficient
retrieval, annotation and archiving of biomedical data.
What is missing today is:
* the full integration of methods and technologies to enhance all phases
of biomedical informatics and health care, including research, diagnosis,
prognosis, etc.;
* the dissemination of such methods in the clinical practice, whenever
they are developed, deployed and maintained.
The grid paradigm offers CPU and data handling capabilities and allows users
and laboratories to share their facilities (computing and data storage
resources, instruments, knowledge, etc.) through high bandwidth networks
between dynamically formed Virtual Organizations.
Grid middleware currently offers basic services for Grid management, and
application development and deployment. To face the complexity of novel,
cooperative, distributed Health and Bioinformatics applications, new
specialized Grid services have to be developed: in such a way Grids can be
deployed to address the needs of the biomedical community.
The goal of this Conference Track is to discuss well-known and emerging
biomedical data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse
technologies and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these
environments. In particular, this track aims at offering a high level forum
for exchanging information, ideas, techniques and software on how to progress
in this rapidly evolving field, in order to support the advance in scientific
research education as well as industrial applications.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
- Grid Infrastructures for Biomedical Data Analysis and Management
- Problem Solving Environments for Biomedical Applications
- Grid Computing Infrastructures, Middleware and Tools for Healthcare
- Grid Computing Biomedical Services Collaboration Technologies
- Databases and the Grid in the Biomedical Field
- Extracting Knowledge from Biomedical Data Grids
- Data Grids for Bioinformatics
- Grid Architectures for Interactive Biomedical Applications
- Grid Architectures and Solutions for Data-Intensive Biomedical
Applications
- Grid-based Biomedical Informatics Interoperability Security in Biomedical
Data Grids
- Semantic Grids for Multimedia Biomedical Data
- Ubiquitous Access to Grid-enabled Applications in Biomedicine
- High-performance Computing for Data-Centric Biomedical Applications
- Grid-based Visualization of Biomedical Data
- Integration of Grid-enabled Applications into Clinical Practice
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 31, 2006 Submission of (6-page, maximum) paper
- March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance
- April 5, 2006 Final camera-ready paper due
- April 8, 2006 Pre-registration deadline
- May 22, 2006 Hotel room reservations due
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR PAPER
No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of
original technical research papers will only be
accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. Use a maximum of six
A4 pages, including figures and references.
Include one cover sheet, stating the track title (Special Track on Grids
for Biomedical Informatics), paper title, authors,
technical area(s) covered in the article, corresponding author's
information (telephone, fax, mailing address, e-mail
address), and your preference for oral or poster presentation. Author
names should appear only on the cover sheet, not on the
paper.
Submit your manuscript no later than January 31, 2006. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by March 1, 2006 after a review
process by three independent experts. Each accepted paper to the Special
Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics will be
published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press, conditional upon
the author's advance registration. Papers that
were not accepted by the Program Committee of the track can be considered
for publication as regular submissions by the
General Program Committee of IEEE CBMS 2006.
Please note that the format of IEEE CBMS 2006 proceedings will be the IEEE
Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch format:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf
Submission is encouraged in this format.
For more details please see the website of IEEE CBMS 2006:
(http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/how.html#submission).
TRACK CHAIRS
Giovanni Aloisio University of Lecce, Italy
Almerico Murli University of Naples, Italy
Maria Mirto University of Lecce, Italy
Alfredo Tirado-Ramos University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For further questions, please contact:
Maria Mirto,
CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology)
&
SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures)
Consortium,
c/o Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering,
University of Lecce,
Via per Monteroni,
73100 Lecce, Italy,
Voice: +39-0832-297304,
Fax: +39-0832-297279,
Email: maria.mirto at unile.it
Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged.
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