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Intelligent optimization in Health, e-Health, Bioinformatics, Biomedecine and Neurosciences

http://www.lion10.unina.it/index.php

Ischia Island (Napoli), Italy, 29 May - 1 June, 2016

Paper Submission Due: December 18, 2015 (23:59 GMT+1);

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This special session aims at putting together works in which optimization approaches and knowledge discovery are jointly concerned to solve problems coming from Health, e-Health, Bioinformatics, biomedecine and neuroscience. The term e-Health or health informatics can be defined as healthcare process supported by electronic processes and communication.

Health, e-Health, Bioinformatics, Biomedecine and Neuroscience represent a great challenge for optimization methods as many problems arizing in these fields can be modelized as large size optimization problems. For example, many bioinformatics problems deal with the manipulation of large sets of variables (SNPs, genes, GWA, proteins ...). Hence, looking for a good combination of these variables require advance search mechanisms. In biomedecine (or medical biology), such optimization problems may also be found by studying molecular interactions. In e-Health a wide range of the services or systems are encountered and are at the edge of medicine and information technology. These services include, but not limited to: electronic health records, telemedicine, the use of mobile devices in collecting health data and providing real-time patient monitoring, healthcare information systems and intelligent medical diagnostic systems. The data provides by such devices are huge and the problems generated required efficient methods. Solving such difficult combinatorial optimization problems require to incorporate knowledge about problems to be solved.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Healthcare and healthcare delivers

- Logistic in Health

- Health Analytics and Informatics

- Hospital Information System

- Other areas related to healthcare

- Protein structure prediction

- Protein function analysis

- Drug design

- RNAseq and microarray gene expression data analysis

- Gene regulatory network construction

**** Proceedings ****

Accepted papers will appear in the LION10 Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

**** Submission ****

When submitting a paper to LION 10 via easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion10) , authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers:

- Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages in LNCS format);

- Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 6 pages in LNCS format);

- Work for oral presentation only: work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference (no page restriction; any format).

**** Important Dates ****

- Paper Submission Due: December 18, 2015 (23:59 GMT+1);

- Notification: March 25, 2016 (23:59 GMT+1);

- Final Papers Due: April 8, 2016 (23:59 GMT+1).

**** Organizers ****

- Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille 1, INRIA Lille, France

- Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille 1, INRIA Lille, France

- Frédéric Saubion, University of Angers, France