CIAB 2011 - CIAB 2011 : Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics

Computational Intelligence - a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence - studies mostly nature inspired, adaptive mechanisms in order to enable or facilitate intelligent behavior in complex and changing environments. These mechanisms include these Artificial Intelligence paradigms that exhibit an ability to learn or adapt to new situations, to generalize, abstract, discover and associate. Usually the following paradigms are considered as part of Computational Intelligence: artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, and fuzzy systems. Individual techniques from these Computational Intelligence paradigms, as well as combinations (hybrid methods) of these paradigms, have been applied successfully to solve a variety of real-world problems. Among them, special effort have been given to the fields of applied biology, bioinformatics and computational biology, due to their complicated nature

Aim of the Workshop
The aim of this workshop is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists which use Computational Intelligence techniques to deal with real-world problems in theoretical and applied biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering and related fields. Issues related to the theory of Computational Intelligence techniques, as well as real-life applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be addressed to this workshop.

Topics of Interest
The Workshop on "Computational Intelligence Applications in Bioinformatics" welcomes paper submissions introducing and implementing Computational Intelligent techniques to address various applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. This workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence for modeling and prediction.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use of techniques like:

Systems Biology,
Molecular Sequence Alignment and Analysis,
RNA and protein folding and structure prediction,
Protein-Protein interactions,
Biological Networks,
Biological Processes,
Biological and Medical Ontologies,
Computational Proteomics,
In-silico Optimization of Biological Systems,
High-Throughput Data Analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, NGS etc.),
Analysis of Large Biological Data Sets,
Medical Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2011
Camera-ready copy: May 15, 2011
Workshop date: September 15- 18, 2011 (The specific day will be finalized by the EANN/AIAI conference organizers)
Contact
Prof. Spiridon D. Likothanassis
likothan-AT-ceid.upatras.gr
Dr. Efstratios F. Georgopoulos
sfg-AT-teikal.gr
Konstantinos Theofilatos
theofilk-AT-ceid.upatras.gr