HiPGCoMB 2008

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on High Performance and Grid Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPGCoMB-2008)

held in conjunction with International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2008) Sidney, Australia December 10-12, 2008

HiPGCoMB-2008 Home Page: http://sara.unile.it/hipgcomb08/

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers) _______________________________________________________________________

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Paper submission:       June 25, 2008 Author Notification:    August 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers:    September 15, 2008

WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

The Fourth Workshop on High Performance and Grid Computing in Medicine and Biology (HiPGCoMB-08), held in conjunction with ISPA 2008 in Sidney, Australia, brings together researchers in computer science  and engineering, medicine, and biology that use high performance computing to solve computationally expensive problems in medicine  and biology. The workshop will provide a forum  for presenting  and exchanging new ideas and experiences in this area.

Topics of  interest  include high performance   algorithms,  systems, architecture, and tools for the following: (but are not limited to the following list)

* Microarray Analysis * RNAi Analysis * Systems Biology * Computational Genomics * Comparative Genomics * DNA Assembly, Clustering, and Mapping * Gene identification and annotation * Computational Proteomics * Evolution and Phylogenetics * Protein Structure Predication and Modeling * Medical Image Processing * Computer Assisted Surgery * Computational Medicine Modeling * Computational Biology Modeling * Augmented Reality * Medical Informatics * High Performance computing for biomedical and bioinformatics applications * Grid Infrastructures for Biomedical Data Analysis and Management * Problem Solving Environments for Biomedical and Bioinformatics Applications * Workflow application for complex analysis processes * High Throughput for in-silico virtual screening * Grid Computing Infrastructures, Middleware and Tools for Healthcare * Grid Computing Biomedical Services * 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

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Talks will be accepted on the  basis of a  paper of  6 pages IEEE CS format that describes the work, its significance, and the current status of the  research. Submit one electronic copy of the paper in PostScript or PDF format by June 25, 2008. Please visit the workshop home page for submission instructions (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispa08) Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference. Otherwise papers will be removed from the IEEE CS digital library.

Notification of acceptance will be  given by August 15, 2008,  and camera-ready papers will be due  September 15, 2008. Accepted papers will be  given  guidelines in  preparing  and    submitting the   final manuscript(s) together with  the   notification  of acceptance. All accepted papers will  be presented at  the  workshop  and included in proceedings that will  be distributed at  the workshop. In addition, authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication  in a special issue of the International International Journal of Supercomputing and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:

Hai Jiang     Arkansas State University, USA email: hjiang@cs.astate.edu

Tao Li	     University of Florida, USA email: taoli@ece.ufl.edu

Jinjun Chen    Swinburne University of Technology, Australia jchen@swin.edu.au

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Giovanni Aloisio, SPACI Consortium & Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy email: giovanni.aloisio@unile.it       Maria Mirto, SPACI Consortium & Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy email: maria.mirto@unile.it        Almerico Murli, University of Naples, "Federico II", Italy email: almerico.murli@dma.unina.it

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: (sandro.fiore@unile.it)
 * Dave S. Angulo DePaul University, USA (dangulo@cti.depaul.edu)
 * Robert G. Belleman University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (robbel@science.uva.nl)
 * Christian Barillot Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France (Christian.Barillot@irisa.fr)
 * Vincent Breton CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Clermont-Ferrand, France (breton@clermont.in2p3.fr)
 * Marian Bubak Institute of Computer Science, Poland (bubak@uci.agh.edu.pl)
 * Mario Cannataro University "Magna Gr?cia" of Catanzaro, Italy (cannataro@unicz.it)
 * Rita Casadio, Biocomputing Lab, University of Bologna, Italy (casadio@alma.unibo.it)
 * Sandro Fiore, SPACI Consortium & Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy
 * Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK (carole@cs.man.ac.uk)
 * Concettina Guerra University of Padova, Italy (Concettina.Guerra@dei.unipd.it)
 * Vicente Hernandez Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (vhernand@dsic.upv.es)
 * Dieter Kranzlmueller Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria (dk@gup.jku.at)
 * Yannick Legre CNRS/IN2P3 France (legre@clermont.in2p3.fr)
 * Nick Mankovich Philips Medical Systems, USA (nick.mankovich@philips.com)
 * Robert L. Martino National Institutes of Health, USA (Robert.Martino@nih.gov)
 * Silvia D. Olabarriaga University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (silvia@science.uva.nl)
 * Cecilia Saccone ITB/CNR Institute of Biomedical Technologies of Bari, Italy (cecilia.saccone@itb.cnr.it)
 * Peter M.A. Sloot University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (sloot@science.uva.nl)
 * Alfredo Tirado Ramos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (alfredo@science.uva.nl
 * Tony Solomonides University of West of England, UK (Tony.Solomonides@uwe.ac.uk)

Information related to ISPA 2008 is available at the official ISPA 2008 Web site: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~ispa2008/

ISPA 2008 is Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP