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CALL FOR PAPERS
WCB09
Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics
http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/Events/WCB09/
September 20th, 2009,
Lisbon, Portugal
associated to CP 2009
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Description
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Bioinformatics is a challenging and fast growing area of research,
which is of utmost importance for our understanding of life. Major
contributions to this discipline can have thousands of positive
effects in medicine, agriculture, or industry. To pick out only a few
examples, Bioinformatics tackles problems related to: Recognition,
analysis, and organization of DNA sequences. For instance,
haplotype/pedigree inference, motif localization, constrained and
structural alignments, biological systems simulations (for metabolic
or regulatory networks), and structure prediction of proteins and
RNA. All these problems can be naturally formalized using constraint
programming.
The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, to share
recent results in this area. This includes new ideas and/or systems,
relying on constraints, but also on other AI techniques like linear
programming, mixed Integer Linear Programming, local search, and
possibly combinations thereof. On the other hand, to present new
challenging problems that were recently formalized and are well-suited
for constraint-based methods. Here, we welcome problem proposals that
motivate further developments in the field, even if they are still far
from having effective solutions.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: June 26th, 2009
Notification to Authors: July 17th, 2009
Camera-ready copy due: August 14th, 2009
Workshop: September 20th, 2009
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Program Committee
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Rolf Backofen, Freiburg Univ., Germany
Pedro Barahona, Univ. Nova de Lisbona, Portugal
Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany
Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden
Alessandro Dal Palu' (co-chair), Parma Univ., Italy
Agostino Dovier, Udine Univ., Italy
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey
Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France
Ines Lynce, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Neil Moore, Univ. of St Andrews, UK
Enrico Pontelli, NMSU, USA
Sebastian Will (co-chair), Freiburg Univ., Germany
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Submission Details
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We appreciate submissions of
* Extended Abstracts of new results
* Abstracts of ongoing work
* Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop)
* Summaries of already accepted or recently published results
* Well-motivated proposals of bioinformatics problems for
constraint based methods
in any topic concerning bioinformatics and constraints and close
techniques.
Submission style is the standard llncs style. The page limit for
submissions is 8 pages.
Please send the pdf or ps to
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Participation
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At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend
the workshop and present the topic. Workshop participants must pay
the workshop fee according to CP rules.
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