[CPM-SPIRE-L] BBC 2022 CFP

[Riccardo DONDI]

       I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement.
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              15th International Workshop (Special Track) on
    Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer Science (BBC)
                        https://bbc2022.wordpress.com/

                   held in conjunction with
     INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (ICCS 2022)

                          London, United Kingdom
                             21-23 June, 2022

                 https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2022/
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                     * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
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Emerging technologies in genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and other
life science areas are generating an increasing amount of complex data and
information.
Traditionally, bioinformatics has been focused on the design of methods and
technologies facilitating the acquisition, storage, organization,
archiving, analysis and visualization of biological and medical data.
However, recent changes related to the emerging technologies have made the
role of computer science (both theoretical and applied aspects) much more
critical in all the bioinformatics research directions.

Computational biology, on the other hand, has emphasized mathematical and
computational techniques facilitating the modelling and simulation of
biomedical processes and systems.

In recent years the distinction between these two fields has become
increasingly blurred. In order to tackle the growing complexity associated
with emerging and future life science challenges, bioinformatics and
computational biology researchers and developers need to explore, develop
and apply novel computational concepts, methods, tools and systems.

Many of these new approaches are likely to involve advanced and large-scale
computing techniques, computational approaches, technologies and
infrastructures such as:

High-performance architectures and systems (e.g. multicore, GPU);
Distributed computing (e.g. grid, cloud, peer-to-peer, Web services,
e-infrastructures);
Computational simulation (mechanistic, stochastic, multi-model);
Algorithms (theoretical and experimental aspects);
Applied bioinformatics (analysis pipelines, tools, applications);
Artificial and computational intelligence (machine learning, agents,
evolutionary techniques, bio-inspired methods).
Network-based analysis for epidemics
Data Science for Public Health decision making
Modelling and simulation of virus diffusion
Telemedicine Infrastructures and Sensors for collecting Public Health
citizens data

Together, these topics cover the key bioinformatics and computational
biology techniques and technologies encountered in modern life science
environments:

Advanced computing architectures/infrastructures
Algorithm design
Data/information management and integration
Data/information analysis and knowledge discovery
Integration of quantitative/symbolic knowledge into executable biomedical
Òtheories  or models.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer and life scientists
to discuss emerging and future directions in these areas.
A special session will be devoted to bioinformatics and computer science
methods to fight the COVID-19 pandemics.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting applications of
parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

High-performance architectures and systems (e.g. multicore, GPU);
Distributed computing (e.g. grid, cloud, peer-to-peer, Web services,
e-infrastructures);
Computational simulation (mechanistic, stochastic, multi-model);
Algorithms (theoretical and experimental aspects);
Applied bioinformatics (analysis pipelines, tools, applications);
Artificial and computational intelligence (machine learning, agents,
evolutionary techniques, bio-inspired methods).
Network-based analysis for epidemics
Data Science for Public Health decision making
Modelling and simulation of virus diffusion
Telemedicine Infrastructures and Sensors for collecting Public Health
citizens data


ICCS 2022 and COVID-19
ICCSÕ format for 2022 will depend on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our current plan is to have a hybrid event: while we encourage participants
to join us in-person, those who are not able to will have the option to
attend online.
We will be announcing further news and details in early 2022.

PROGRAM
The workshop will take place on 21-23 June, 2022 (To Be Announced). The
program is not available yet.


PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION

The manuscripts of up to 14 pages (full paper), or 7 page (short paper) or
2 pages (abstract), written in English and formatted according to the
Springer LNCS templates, should be submitted electronically via EasyChair
through the ICCS submission system at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2022

by choosing the Thematic Track titled "Biomedical and Bioinformatics
Challenges for Computer Science".

Instructions for Authors can be found here:
https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2022/call-for-papers/

During submission, you may select either a Full/Short Paper or an Abstract
Only publication. By default, it would be an oral presentation. If you
prefer to present a poster, please check the ÒPoster Presentation  option
in the submission page.

While we encourage full paper submissions, the ÒAbstract Only  option
caters to researchers who can only publish in specific journals or work for
companies in circumstances such that they cannot publish at all, but still
want to present their work and discuss it with their peers at ICCS. In the
ÒAbstract Only  option, a short abstract is published in a book of
abstracts, but not in LNCS.

Papers must be based on unpublished original work and must be submitted to
ICCS only.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.

Deadlines for draft paper submission, notification of acceptance,
camera-ready paper submission and registration may be found in the
Important Dates section.


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 18 February 2022 (extended)
Notification to authors: 21 March 2022
Camera-ready papers: 11 April 2022
Author registration: 21 March Ð 11 April 2022
Non-author registration (in-person): 21 March Ð 20 May 2022
Non-author registration (online): 21 March Ð 10 June 2022
Conference sessions: 21-23 June 2022



JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
After the workshop, we plan to invite the best papers of the workshop for a
special issue of an international journal.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZER
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Mauro Castelli, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Riccardo Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Italo Zoppis, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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