CMLS 2011 - 2011 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences ? CMLS-11

With an emphasis on the applications of computer, physical, engineering and mathematical models for solving modern challenging problems in life sciences, the third event CMLS-11 aims to bring biologists, medical and health-science researchers together with computational scientists to focus on problems at the frontier of computational life sciences. A goal of this meeting is that the interactions of scientists across several disciplines will lead to the identification of new scientific investigations, shape future directions for strategic research, and help industrial users apply advanced computational techniques for solving practical life-science problems. As another important aspect, CMLS-11 aims to provide opportunities for postgraduate research students to present latest research results and establish links with experts across several scientific disciplines. CMLS-11 will consist of invited talks by leading international experts in computational life sciences, contributed papers, tutorials, and social programs.

Themes of Interest

Medical and molecular image analysis and understanding
Computational systems biology and medicine
Computational psychology and physiology
Computational neuroscience
Bio-sensing
Bio-signals
Artificial life
e-Health
Topics include, but not limited to the following:

Image analysis, computer vision, pattern analysis and classification, information visualization, signal processing, control theory, information theory, statistical analysis, information fusion, numerical analysis, fractals and chaos, biologically-inspired techniques, optimization, simulation and modeling, parallel computing, computational intelligence methods, machine learning, data mining, decision support systems, database integration and management.

Publications

The proceedings of the symposium will be published as a book in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) series. The online version will be published simultaneously with the printed book.

Authors of selected papers presented during the symposium will be invited to extend their papers for submission to special issues of the following journals and book series:

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier)
Current Bioinformatics (Bentham)
International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (Inderscience)
Intelligent Systems Reference Library Book Series (Springer-Verlag)
Important Dates

November 01, 2010 Regular and poster paper submissions due
January 03, 2011 Decision notification
February 01, 2011 Final papers due
June 22-24, 2011 CMLS-11
Paper Submissions and Reviewing

All papers must be written in English. The submitted work must not be published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by at least two anonymous reviewers. All authors should submit papers in PDF or Microsoft Word format electronically. Submitted papers must follow the AIP conference proceedings format. Detailed instructions for paper format, page limit, and paper submission can be found on the symposium website.

Honorary Chair:

Kiyoshi Itao (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
General Chairs:

Tuan Pham (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Yuko Takahashi (Nara Women's University, Japan)
Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
Program Chairs:

Mayumi Oyama-Higa (Osaka University, Japan)
Xiuping Jia (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Xiaoyi Jiang (University of Muenster, Germany)
Jeanne Kowalski (Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Changming Sun (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia)
Xiaobo Zhou (Methodist Hospital Research Institute of Cornell University, USA)
Local Organizing Chair:

Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Tutorial Chair:

Andriani Daskalaki (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany)
Technical Sponsoring Organizations:

AHI (Tokyo, Japan)
UNSW (Canberra, Australia)
Web Technical Support Manager:

Peter Morris (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Symposium website:

http://cmls-conf.org/2011/