<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-align:start">*** Apologies for multiple copies ***</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">10^th International Workshop on</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">Biological </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt">Knowledge Discovery from Big Data </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">(BIOKDD'19)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Held in parallel with</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:0.35pt"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:0.35pt">30^th International Conference on Database and </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:0.35pt">Expert Systems Applications </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt">(</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:0.35pt">DEXA’19</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt">)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span class="gmail-m_3013159864347732523gmail-m_5638978575506376049gmail-m_2083359443715768790m_2662212227486141986gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.dexa.org/biokdd2019" target="_blank">www.dexa.org/biokdd2019</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Linz, Austria</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">August 26 - 29, 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-m_3013159864347732523gmail-m_5638978575506376049gmail-m_2083359443715768790m_2662212227486141986gmail-MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:18pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;letter-spacing:0.35pt"> </span></p><p class="gmail-m_3013159864347732523gmail-m_5638978575506376049gmail-m_2083359443715768790m_2662212227486141986gmail-MsoPlainText" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">In recent years there has been a rapid development of biological technologies producing more and more <i>biological data</i>, i.e. data related to biological macromolecules (DNA, RNA, and proteins).  The rise of <i>next-generation sequencing</i> technologies </span>(NGS)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">, also known as <i>high-throughput sequencing</i> technologies</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"> has contributed actively to the deluge of these data.  In general, these data are big, heterogeneous, complex, and<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">distributed all over the world within databases.</span><b style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"><span lang="EN-US">  </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">Analyzing </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">biological big data is a challenging task, not only because of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms.  Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study.  From here comes the necessity to adopt new computer tools and develop new <i>in silico</i> high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological big data and, hence, to help us in the understanding of the correlations that exist between, on the one hand, structures and functional patterns in biological </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">macromolecules </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms.  </span><i style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"><span lang="EN-US">Biological </span></i><i style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Knowledge Discovery from Big Data</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">(BIOKDD)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;text-indent:18pt">is a response to these new trends. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 2.85pt 0.0001pt 0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:13.9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BIOKDD’19 workshop </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">include, but not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 2.85pt 0.0001pt 0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:13.9pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data Preprocessing: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Biological Big Data<i> </i>Storage<i>, </i>Representation and </span><span lang="EN-GB">Management </span><span lang="EN-US">(e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB">data warehouses, </span><span lang="EN-US">databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological </span><span lang="EN-GB">networks and pathways</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span><span lang="EN-GB">, </span><span lang="EN-US">Biological Big Data Cleaning (e.g. errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data),</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Feature Extraction (e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB">motifs, </span><span lang="EN-GB">subgraphs)</span><span lang="EN-GB">, </span><span lang="EN-US">Feature Selection (e.g. filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, </span><span lang="EN-GB">embedded </span><span lang="EN-US">approaches).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data Mining: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Biological Big Data Regression (e.g. regression </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">of biological sequence)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Biological Big Data Clustering/Biclustering (e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">microarray data</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> biclustering, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">clustering/biclustering of biological sequences)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, Biological Big Data Classification (e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">classification of biological sequence)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Association Rules Learning from Biological Big Data, </span><span lang="EN-GB">Text mining and Application to</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Biological Sequences</span><span lang="EN-GB">, Web mining and Application to</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Biological Big Data</span><span lang="EN-GB">, Parallel, </span><span class="gmail-m_3013159864347732523gmail-m_5638978575506376049gmail-m_2083359443715768790m_2662212227486141986gmail-yshortcuts"><span lang="EN-GB">Cloud</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"> and Grid</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Computing for Biological Big Data Mining.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data Postprocessing:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation<i> </i>(e.g. calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules via numerical indicators or measurements of interest), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:17.85pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 2.85pt 0.0001pt 0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE CS-CPS format <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a></span></u>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’19 Workshops with IEEE CS-CPS</span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:normal">. </span></strong><span lang="EN-US">One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to </span><span lang="EN-GB">DEXA’19 </span><span lang="EN-US">conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’19 workshop</span><span lang="EN-GB">. For paper registration and electronic submission see <span style="color:red"><a href="http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2019/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2019/</a></span> starting from January 2019. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission of abstracts: March 11, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 126pt;text-indent:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Submission of full papers: March 18, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 108pt;text-indent:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 126pt;text-indent:18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Camera-ready copies due: June 08, 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PROGRAM COMMITTEE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mourad Elloumi, LaTICE, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Davide Verzotto, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Haider Banka, India Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)">Suresh Dara, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">B V Raju Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Bhaskar DasGupta</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span lang="EN-US">University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Robert Harrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jérémie Bourdon, University of Nantes, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abdelhalim Larhlimi, University of Nantes, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif">Dominique Lavenier, GenScale, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Malik Yousef, Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Giuseppe Lancia, University of Udine, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Farhana Zulkernine, School of Computing Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vladimir Makarenkov, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">P. Ch. J. Srinivasa Rao, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Vijayawada, India</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Padova, Italy </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Adrien Goëffon, University of Angers, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maad Shatnawi, Higher colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times,serif"><span lang="EN-US">Mirto Musci, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Tim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