your colleagues and contacts***
Hi there,
Below is a call for papers for an interesting *special session at the
interface of multiobjective optimization and biology
<https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Richard.Allmendinger/SS-MOBCBBE_IEEE_CIBCB_2018>*.
The session is organized as part of the exciting *IEEE CIBCB 2018
<http://cibcb.org/CIBCB2018/index.html> *conference, which is taking place
in beautiful Saint Louis, Missouri.
The paper submission deadline is approaching quickly (around 3 weeks away)
so if you are interested in participating then please get your paper(s)
ready now:)
Please feel free to contact me for any additional information.
Best wishes,
Richard
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Special Session on Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering
in IEEE CIBCB 2018
30 May - 2 June 2018, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
*Submission deadline: 23 December 2017*
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This special session invites papers discussing recent advances in the
development and application of Multiobjective Optimization in
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering.
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering (BCBBE)
are interdisciplinary scientific fields involving many branches of computer
science, engineering, mathematics, and statistics. Broadly speaking, we can
define Bioinformatics as a field concerned with the creation/engineering of
tools (e.g. algorithms, databases) that solve problems based on biological
data, while Computational Biology is concerned with the (scientific) study
of biology using computational techniques with the goal to learn new
biology and knowledge about living systems (Russ Altman). Finally,
Computational Biomedical Engineering is an emerging research field
concerned with the development of software and hardware tools to ultimately
enhance human health.
Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering are
fields in which challenges and issues can often be formulated as
optimization problems subject to multiple conflicting objectives. Such
multiobjective optimization problems span from traditional problems, such
as the optimization of biochemical processes, construction of gene
regulatory networks, protein structure alignment and prediction, to more
modern problems, such as big data analysis of healthcare data, and medical
imaging and pattern recognition.
The main aim of this special session is to bring together both experts and
new-comers working on Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering to discuss new and
exciting issues in this area.
We encourage submission of methodology papers describing new challenges and
optimization techniques as well as application papers discussing the power
and applicability of these novel methods to multiobjective problems in
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering. You are
invited to submit papers that are unpublished original work for this special
session at IEEE CIBCB 2018. Topics include, but are not limited to,
• Multiobjective optimization techniques for problems in
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering (BCBBE)
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Swarm Intelligence
• Metaheuristics
• Fuzzy optimization
• Surrogate-based methods
• Hybrid optimization algorithms (combinations of
heuristics and exact methods)
• Preference-based methods
• Tuning of multiobjective optimization and decision-making
techniques for problems in BCBBE
• Performance measures
• Test and benchmark problems
• Visualization techniques
• Optimization and visualization software
• Applications of multiobjective optimization techniques in BCBBE
• Gene expression array analysis
• Structure prediction and folding
• MicroRNA analysis
• Biological network reconstruction
• Signal and image processing
• Medical imaging and pattern recognition
• Biomakers
• Further prominent and emerging topics in multiobjective optimization
in BCBBE
• Scaling up from lab-based work to commerical manufacture
• Challenging problem features (e.g. many decision
variables, dynamic problems, uncertainty, expensive and limited
evaluations, etc)
• Closed-loop applications and challenges
• Multiobjective data mining
• Predictive fitness landscape design
• Many-objective optimization
• Side effect machines and other kernal representations for
sequence analysis
• Ecoinformatics
• Visual analytics
• Data modelling/mining, and Big Data analytics
Submission instructions
We welcome original contributions describing ongoing projects or completed
work. The instructions for authors, and LaTeX and Word templates can be
found at http://cibcb.org/CIBCB2018/index-4.html <http://www.cibcb2016.org/>
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Important dates
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*Paper submission: 23 December, 2017*
Author notification: 9 February, 2018
Final Submission: TBD
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Contact/Organizers
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Please feel free to contact us
Richard Allmendinger (Univ. Manchester): richard.allmendinger
@manchester.ac.uk
Julia Handl (Univ. Manchester): julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk
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