MODMBB 2015 - Special Session on Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB)

Special Session on Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB)
2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2015)
August 12-15, 2015, Niagara Falls, Canada
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucberal/SS-MODMBB-IEEE_CIBCB...
Submission deadline: 20 March 2015
Submission details: http://cibcb2015.cosc.brocku.ca/submission.html
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Aim and Scope
This special session invites papers discussing recent advances in the development and application of Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB).
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BB) are interdisciplinary scientific fields involving many branches of computer science, engineering, mathematics, and statistics. Bioinformatics is concerned with the development and application of computational methods for the modeling, retrieving and analysis of biological data, whilst Bioengineering is the application of engineering techniques to biology so as to create usable and economically viable products.
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering are relatively new 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 directed evolution, drug design, experimental design, and optimization of manufacturing processes, material and equipment.
The main aim of this special session is to bring together both experts and new-comers working on Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB) to discuss new and exciting issues in this area.
Topics of Interest
We encourage submission of papers describing new concepts, strategies, challenges and decision-making techniques in the area of BB. In addition, we are interested in application papers discussing the power and applicability of these novel methods to real-world multiobjective problems in BB. You are invited to submit papers that are unpublished original work for this special session at CIBCB 2015. The topics are, but not limited to, the following
* Multiobjective optimization techniques for Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BB) problems
- Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
- Swarm Intelligence
- Metaheuristics
- Hybrid optimization algorithms (combinations of heuristics and exact methods)
* Multicriteria decision making techniques for BB problems
- Preference elicitation and representation
- Aggregation-based techniques
- Fuzzy logic-based techniques
- Bayesian-based techniques
* Experimental multiobjective optimization of BB problems
- Experimental optimization platforms
- Closed-loop multiobjective challenges
- Resourcing issues (interruptions, missing objective function values, changes of variables, etc.)
- Closed-loop multiobjective applications
* Learning in multiobjective optimization of BB problems
- Link between Decision Maker's learning and model's learning
- Capturing and learning from user preferences
- Integrating multiobjective optimization with machine learning
- Interactive multiobjective learning and optimization techniques
* Tuning of multiobjective optimization and decision-making techniques for BB problems
- Performance measures
- Test and benchmark problems
- Visualization techniques
- Optimization and visualization software
* Emerging Topics in multiobjective optimization and decision-kaking in BB
- Novel applications (process design, manufacturing, etc)
- Novel challenges (large-scale problems, dynamic problems, mixed integer problems, uncertainty, expensive and limited evaluations, etc)
- Bilevel and multilevel optimization
- Interactive visualization techniques
- Multiobjective data mining
- Predictive fitness landscape design
- Many-objective optimization
- Surrogate methods
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://cibcb2015.cosc.brocku.ca/submission.html
Key Dates
Paper Submissions due: 20 March 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 22 May 2015
Camera-Ready Papers due: 26 June 2015
Organizers
Richard Allmendinger, University College London, UK
Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany
Program Committee
Allmendinger Richard, University College London, UK
Ashlock Daniel, University of Guelph, Canada
Ashlock Wendy, York University, Canada
Branke Jürgen, University of Warwick, UK
Brown Michael, University of Maryland University College, USA
Coker James, University of Maryland University College, USA
Emmerich Michael, Leiden University, Netherlands
Farid Suzanne, University College London, UK
Handl Julia, University of Manchester, UK
Houghton Sheridan, Brock University, Canada
Jin Yaochu, University of Surrey, UK
Knowles Joshua, University of Manchester, UK
Langdon Bill, University College London, UK
Lavygina Anna, Imperial College London, UK
Mostaghim Sanaz, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Wiese Kay, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Contact
For further information please contact Richard Allmendinger (r.allmendinger-AT-ucl.ac.uk)