[DMANET] Algorithms for Big Data - Call for Paper

Special Issue ICABD 2014 & StringMasters Spring 2014 - Call for Papers

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Mathematics in Computer Science
Special Issue on Algorithms for Big Data
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SCOPE
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After the ICABD 2014 Conference (http://algorithms-for-big-data.org/) and StringMasters Spring 2014 workshop (http://stringmasters.unipa.it/) to be shortly held in Palermo, we are happy to announce a special issue of Mathematics in Computer Science devoted to them.
The special issue is motivated by the desire to give people who will present their contributes at the 2nd International Conference on Algorithms for Big Data as well as the participants to the Spring 2014 edition of StringMasters workshop the opportunity to publish extended papers on their work. Beside ICABD 2014 extended contributions and StringMasters Spring 2014 outcomes, any original paper fitting the present Call for Papers will be adequately considered for publication. Same as the ICABD conference, this special issue main topics are the application of mathematical theories and methods to big data, primarily collections of biological sequences such as DNA/RNA and proteomic sequences. A list of representative topics follows.

1. Mathematical methods for sequence matching, sequence compression, and information retrieval;
2. Algorithms for sequence indexing, approximate indexing, and compressed indexing;
3. In place data structures, space conscious data structures, and external memory algorithms;
4. Mathematical results with applications in bioinformatics problems;
5. Combinatorial aspects of biological sequences and collections;
6. Algorithms and data structures for repetition discovery and motif recognition;
7. Mathematical methods for fragment assembly, reads reassembly, and genome alignments;
8. Mathematical methods for phylogenetic trees construction and comparison;
9. Combinatorial measures of sequence similarity.


SUBMISSION
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We encourage the submission of original papers (preferably more than 12 pages) that present high-quality contributions that are the full version of the papers presented at ICABD 2014 or novel scientific outcomes obtained from the scientific collaborations taking place at StringMasters Spring 2014 that have not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

If you intend to submit a paper to the MCS special issue, you are requested to send a brief preliminary e-mail showing your intention to specialissue@algorithms-for-big-data.org, by 15 April 2014. In this e-mail you have to specify the title of the paper, the list of authors and the approximate
number of pages.

Submissions, prepared in accordance with Mathematics in Computer Science's author guidelines, must be sent to specialissue@algorithms-for-big-data.org
by 22 April 2014. The publisher requires submission of papers written
in LaTeX, possibly using the MCS LaTeX style file from Birkhauser Publishing which can be downloaded from the publisher page on MCS journal http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/mathematics/journal/11786.

Submissions will be subject to the regular anonymous reviewing procedures of Mathematics in Computer Science, e.g. minimum two agreeing reviews.

For more details please visit http://algorithms-for-big-data.org/Journal.html


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Preliminary e-mail: 15 April 2014
* Submission of papers: 22 April 2014
* Notification of referee reports: 01 June 2014
* Revised version: 15 June 2014
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 June 2014
* Final version: 30 June 2014

GUEST EDITORS
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* Costas S. Iliopoulos (King's College London)
* Alessio Langiu (University of Palermo and King's College London)
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