From maria.mirto at unile.it Wed Jan 4 05:15:32 2006 From: maria.mirto at unile.it (Maria Mirto) Date: Tue Jan 17 07:29:56 2006 Subject: [BioSQL-l] CFP: (IEEE CBMS2006) Special Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics Message-ID: <3240.193.204.74.230.1136369732.squirrel@webmail2.unile.it> Dear all, Please find attached the Call For Papers for: 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) - Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics Salt Lake City, Utah, USA June 22-23 2006 http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2006/cfp.htm http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM ****** DEADLINE for Submission ***** January 31, 2006 ******* The goal of this Conference Track is to discuss well-known and emerging biomedical data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse technologies and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these environments. In particular, this track aims at offering a high level forum for exchanging information, ideas, techniques and software on how to progress in this rapidly evolving field, in order to support the advance in scientific research education as well as industrial applications. Best regards, Maria Mirto. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology) Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy phone: +39-0832-297304, fax: +39-0832-297279 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************************************************************************** *** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ***************************************************************************** *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics CBMS 2006: IEEE on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society & ACM June 22-23, 2006 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers http://datadog.unile.it/cbms2006/cfp.htm http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/ ***************** Biomedical Informatics is quickly evolving into a research field that encompasses the use of all kinds of biomedical information, from genetic and proteomic data to image data associated with particular patients in clinical settings. Biomedical Informatics comprises the fields of Bioinformatics (e.g., genomics and proteomics) and Medical Informatics (e.g., medical image analysis), and deals with issues related to the access to information technology in medicine, the analysis of genomics data, security, interoperability and integration of data-intensive biomedical applications. Main issues in this field are: * Integration of multiple laboratories that collect large amounts of biomedical data (genomics, post-genomics, biomedical images and signals), so that researchers can: - continue to maintain their own biomedical and computing resources autonomously; - face effectively the growth of data they need to manage and process, exploiting recent methods such as data mining, taking into account that biomedical data are produced and stored continuously; and integrate and share data and findings in a controlled manner. * Provision of large computing power such that researchers have access to - high performance distributed computational resouces for computationally demanding data analysis, e.g., medical image processing and simulation of medical treatment or surgery; - large storage capacity and distributed databases for the efficient retrieval, annotation and archiving of biomedical data. What is missing today is: * the full integration of methods and technologies to enhance all phases of biomedical informatics and health care, including research, diagnosis, prognosis, etc.; * the dissemination of such methods in the clinical practice, whenever they are developed, deployed and maintained. The grid paradigm offers CPU and data handling capabilities and allows users and laboratories to share their facilities (computing and data storage resources, instruments, knowledge, etc.) through high bandwidth networks between dynamically formed Virtual Organizations. Grid middleware currently offers basic services for Grid management, and application development and deployment. To face the complexity of novel, cooperative, distributed Health and Bioinformatics applications, new specialized Grid services have to be developed: in such a way Grids can be deployed to address the needs of the biomedical community. The goal of this Conference Track is to discuss well-known and emerging biomedical data-intensive systems in the context of Grids and to analyse technologies and methodologies useful to develop such systems in these environments. In particular, this track aims at offering a high level forum for exchanging information, ideas, techniques and software on how to progress in this rapidly evolving field, in order to support the advance in scientific research education as well as industrial applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Grid Infrastructures for Biomedical Data Analysis and Management - Problem Solving Environments for Biomedical Applications - Grid Computing Infrastructures, Middleware and Tools for Healthcare - Grid Computing Biomedical Services Collaboration Technologies - Databases and the Grid in the Biomedical Field - Extracting Knowledge from Biomedical Data Grids - Data Grids for Bioinformatics - Grid Architectures for Interactive Biomedical Applications - Grid Architectures and Solutions for Data-Intensive Biomedical Applications - Grid-based Biomedical Informatics Interoperability 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 - Grid-based Visualization of Biomedical Data - Integration of Grid-enabled Applications into Clinical Practice IMPORTANT DATES - January 31, 2006 Submission of (6-page, maximum) paper - March 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance - April 5, 2006 Final camera-ready paper due - April 8, 2006 Pre-registration deadline - May 22, 2006 Hotel room reservations due SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR PAPER No hardcopy submissions are being accepted. Electronic submissions of original technical research papers will only be accepted in PDF format. File size is limited to 2 MB. Use a maximum of six A4 pages, including figures and references. Include one cover sheet, stating the track title (Special Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics), paper title, authors, technical area(s) covered in the article, corresponding author's information (telephone, fax, mailing address, e-mail address), and your preference for oral or poster presentation. Author names should appear only on the cover sheet, not on the paper. Submit your manuscript no later than January 31, 2006. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 2006 after a review process by three independent experts. Each accepted paper to the Special Track on Grids for Biomedical Informatics will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press, conditional upon the author's advance registration. Papers that were not accepted by the Program Committee of the track can be considered for publication as regular submissions by the General Program Committee of IEEE CBMS 2006. Please note that the format of IEEE CBMS 2006 proceedings will be the IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch format: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf Submission is encouraged in this format. For more details please see the website of IEEE CBMS 2006: (http://cbms2006.ece.byu.edu/how.html#submission). TRACK CHAIRS Giovanni Aloisio University of Lecce, Italy Almerico Murli University of Naples, Italy Maria Mirto University of Lecce, Italy Alfredo Tirado-Ramos University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands For further questions, please contact: Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology) & SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures) Consortium, c/o Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy, Voice: +39-0832-297304, Fax: +39-0832-297279, Email: maria.mirto@unile.it Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged.