[alife] CFP - MIC'2015 - Special Session on Metaheuristic for Bioinformatics

[Sune Steinbjorn NIELSEN]

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                          Special Session on
                   Metaheuristics for Bioinformatics
                  http://mic15-metabio.gforge.uni.lu/

                              As part of

     The 11th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC'2015)
                   June 7-10, 2015 - Agadir, Morocco
                      http://www.lifl.fr/MIC2015/

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Session Topics :
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Bioinformatics in general is an integral part of a growing number of
important real-world applications within industrial chemistry, 
biomedicine, microbiology, agriculture etc. Within all these areas,
numerous challenges arise where computer models and meta-heuristics
are applied. 
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers in this field and
share latest contributions and ongoing work. The session topics are
related to metaheuristics applied within the field of bioinformatics.
These include, but are not limited to:

* Protein folding and docking simulations
* Protein structure prediction and energy-minimisation
* Protein design methods
* Protein interaction prediction and classification
* Regulatory networks
* Gene mapping
* Sequence alignment and assembly

Involving techniques such as:

* Evolutionary algorithms
* Multi-objective algorithms
* Parallel metaheuristics
* Hybrid and hierarchical approaches
* Surrogate models
* Data extraction and Visualisation


Submission details :
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You are invited to submit your ongoing work in the form of an extended
abstract, a full paper or a recent submitted journal manuscript.
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and selected
papers will be published in a Springer edited book or a special issue
of the International Journal of Metaheuristics.

Submission is electronic, in PDF format, using the easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2015

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to
this requirement at the time of submission. For further details,
please refer to the main site:
http://www.lifl.fr/MIC2015/submission.html


Important dates :
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Submission: Feb 6th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2015
Camera-ready papers: April 10th 2015
Early registration: April 10th 2015
Conference: June 7-10th 2015


Workshop Organisers :
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Sune S. Nielsen (University of Luxembourg, email: sune.nielsen at uni.lu)
Grégoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg, email: gregoire.danoy at uni.lu)