BMIC 2010 - The 4th International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics: BMIC 2010

The 4th International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics: BMIC 2010

In the Context of
The 14th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2010

June 29th - July 2nd, 2010 ? Orlando, Florida, USA

http://www.iiis2010.org/bmic/

Honorary President: William Lesso
Program Committee Chairs: William Lesso and C. Dale Zinn
General Chair: Nagib Callaos



Conference’s Major Themes
? Bioinformatics: Applications and the Use of Informatics and Computer Science in Biology.
? Bio-Computing. Bio-Informatics
? Medical Computing
? Biology-inspired Robots and Agents [EISTA 2010]
? Computational Genomics [SOIC 2010] [PISTA 2010]
? Bio-Complexity [BMIC 2010]
? Health Information Systems
? Systems Biology [MEI 2010]
? Bioinformatics and Medical Genomics [RMCI 2010]
? Computerized Patient Record [AG 2010]
? Medical Decision Support Systems. Medical Expert Systems.
? Medical informatics: Applications and the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by Medical and Health-care Practitioners.
? Healthcare Networks
? Imaging Informatics
? Online Health Information & Patient Empowerment Organization Change, Information Needs
? Public Health Informatics, Clinical Trials
? Biomedical Informatics. Applications and Use of Computers in Biomedical Technology and Research
? Applications of Artificial-Intelligence and ICT technologies in Bioinformatics and Bio-medical Informatics
? Cyber-Medicine. E-Health. Tele-health. Tele-Medicine. E-medicine.
? Applications of Operations Research and Management Science in Medicine and Health Care.
? Cyber-Biology
? Medical Cybernetics
? Biological Cybernetics

Program Committee

The Program Committee has about 32 members, who are complemented by about 129 reviewers. The names, affiliations and countries of the PC’s members as well as the additional reviewers could be found at the Conference’s web site, or more specifically at
www.iiis2010.org/bmic/PCommitte.asp. The Program Committee is mostly formed by 1) the authors of the sessions' best papers of BMIC 2009; 2) its effective invited session organizers who also were co-editors of the conference proceedings; and 3) some members of past BMIC Conferences, who were also authors of best papers. (Those who manifested no interest in participating in the Program Committee have been removed).

Virtual Participation

Given the Global Recession, and thinking of those scholars, researchers and professionals related with the conference topics but unable to attend it personally (usually due to insufficient funding for the traveling costs) a Virtual Participation mode has been established, with the same peer reviewing and validity than face-to-face ones.
Submissions made for Virtual Participation would go through the same reviewing processes of the regular papers (double-blind, non-blind, and participative peer reviewing) and, if accepted (according to the same acceptance policy), they will be included in the proceedings and will be eligible for journal publication, with no additional cost, if they are, according to their reviewers, among the best 10%-20% of those physically and virtually presented at the conference.

Each regular session, included in the conference program, will be associated to a corresponding virtual session where all final versions of the articles to be presented will be displayed and authors can comment them via electronic forums. Registered authors of virtual participations will have access to all conference program sessions (and papers). Their article will be displayed as the regular ones. Virtual authors also have the option of sending, besides the final version of their article in a PDF document, an electronic presentation (PowerPoint, flash, etc. and/or a 15-20 minutes video)

After paying the respective shipping and handling costs, registered authors of virtual participation, who have paid their registration fee, can get delivered the same conference material that the regular attendees receive at the registration desk.

Ways of Participation and Support

Participation in the conference could be done by means of one or several of the following activities:
? The submission of a paper/abstract.
? The organization of Invited Session(s)
? Tutorial proposals
? The organization of Focus Symposium.
? The reviewing process.
? The conference promotion.
? Recommending scholars/researchers in order to have an active participation and/or submit the papers.
? Panel Presentation.
? Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific Co-Sponsors.

Kinds of Participants

Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged. Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. Hence, the Program Committee has been conformed according to the criteria given above.

Deadlines

October 14th, 2009: Submission of draft papers (2000-5000), extended abstracts (400-2000) and abstracts for inter-disciplinary communication (200-600 words)
October 14th, 2009: Invited Sessions proposals. Acceptance of invited session proposals will be done in about one week of its proposal via the respective conference web form, and final approval will be done after the inclusion of at least five papers in the respective session
November 30th, 2009: Notifications of acceptance.
February 10th, 2010: Submission of camera-ready or final versions of the accepted papers.
June 29th, 2010: Conference Starts
July 2nd, 2010: Conference Ends

Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair, but in any case the camera ready deadline should be met.