Dear All,
The attached symposium may be of interest to several evolutionary
computing folk. Sorry if not!
Best Regards,
Dave
*** CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS ***
for the
Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS
at
"Time for AI and Society"
2000 Convention of the Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
(AISB-00)
17th-20th April 2000
University of Birmingham
England
The Symposium will take place over two days during the Convention.
Exactly which days those are will be decided nearer the Convention date.
URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/
THE SYMPOSIUM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS
Bioinformatics is the general science concerning the acquisition,
archiving, analysis, and interpretation of biological information. In
particular, it is concerned with exploiting modern developments in
computer science and artificial intelligence towards understanding the
structure and function of proteins, cells, the genome, and
understanding the process of natural evolution. The very rapidly
advancing amount of biological information becoming available (genome
and protein databases in particular) presents vast opportunities for
the application of a wide range of artificial intelligence
techniques. As yet, these opportunities have been only sparsely
exploited.
This symposium intends to draw together those who applying artificial
intelligence techniques to bioinformatics related issues. Submissions
are particularly encouraged from those investigating artificial
intelligence techniques in protein structure, molecular dynamics, and
genome analysis, and general data mining of biological
databases. Submissions and participants are keenly sought from both a
lifesciences background, and a computer sciences background. The
symposium will hope to make a significant contribution to the computer
scientists' appreciation of the bioinformatics-related opportunities
for the techniques, and the life scientists' appreciation of the
potential of artificial intelligence methods.
The symposium itself will consist of a mixture of oral and poster
presentations with discussion and interaction strongly encouraged.
Acceptance for presentation at the symposium will be on the basis of
review of extended abstracts required by January 12th. Notification
will be sent at the end of January, and full papers for the symposium
pre-proceedings will be required by the hard deadline of Monday 13th
March. A further review stage will then take place which will lead to
revised versions needed by end of May 2000, for post-workshop
publication.
SUBMISSIONS: DESTINATION AND FORMAT
Papers will be selected by anonymous peer review of extended abstracts
of between 1500 and 3000 words.
Submissions of extended abstracts should be sent by email to either of
the programme chairs, in one of the following forms. Plain text,
postscript, Word. Plain text marked up with HTML is particularly
encouraged, to facilitate the eventual inclusion of accepted abstracts
in the Convention's webpage system.
TIMETABLE
NOTE: Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to supply full
papers for inclusion in a symposium pre-proceedings published by AISB.
Extended Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 12th January 2000
Extended Abstract acceptance/rejection: Monday 31st January 2000
Camera-Ready Full Paper submission deadline: Monday 13th March 2000
The Convention: 17th April - 20th April 2000
PROGRAMME CHAIRS:
David Corne,
Parallel Emergent & Distributed Architectures Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Reading,
PO Box 225, Whiteknights,
Reading RG6 6AY,
UK.
Tel:+44 (0)118 931 8983 FAX:+44 (0)118 975 1994
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Andrew Martin
School of Animal and Microbiological Sciences
University of Reading,
PO Box 227, Whiteknights,
Reading RG6 6AJ,
UK.
Tel:+44 (0)118 931 7022 FAX:+44 (0)118 931 0180
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
(this is being regularly updated: check the WWW page for current form)
Chris Cannings, University of Sheffield
Arun Holden, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds
Graham Megson, School of Computer Science, Cybernetics and Electronic
Engineering, University of Reading
Ray Paton, Computational Biology Group, University of Liverpool
Vic Rayward-Smith, School of Information Systems. University of East Anglia
Shail Patel, Unilever PlC, UK
Richard Sibly, School of Animal and Microbal Sciences, University of Reading
Richard Tateson, British Telecommunications PlC
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THE WHOLE CONVENTION
The Programme Overseers and Local Arrangements Chairmen are:
Prof. John A. Barnden & Dr. Mark G. Lee
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
England.
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http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~{jab,mgl}
Work: (+44) (0)121 414-{3816,4765}
Fax: (+44) (0)121 414-4281
NOTE: Please address all enquiries about the SPECIFIC SYMPOSIUM featured
in this call to the Programme Chair(s) above, NOT to Barnden or Lee.
In particular, please do not send submissions to Barnden or Lee.
Barnden and Lee welcome general enquiries about the Convention.
The whole Convention will largely consist of some Keynote Talks and
about nine Symposia on a wide range of topics in Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Underlying subthemes of the
Convention will include but will not be restricted to: applications of
AI to society; how AI can change society; how society affects
individual cognition; how individual agents work together;
society-of-agents views of individual cognition; and how agents deal
with time and change outside and within themselves. Please see the
Convention web page (above) for descriptions of the individual
Symposia.
The Keynote Speakers will be Geoffrey Hinton from University College,
London (England), Marvin Minsky from MIT, and Aaron Sloman from the
University of Birmingham (England). A fourth may be arranged. The
keynote talks will be plenary events.
Convention URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/
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