Special Session

Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2016 (IEEE CIBCB 2016)


October 5th to 7th 2016

Chiang Mai, Thailand



Organizers

Allmendinger Richard
University of Manchester, UK

Julia Handl
University of Manchester, UK

Laetitia Jourdan
CRIStAL, INRIA, University Lille, France



Scope and call for papers

This special session invites papers discussing recent advances in the development and application of Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering.

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering (BCBBE) are interdisciplinary scientific fields involving many branches of computer science, engineering, mathematics, and statistics. Broadly speaking, we can define Bioinformatics as a field concerned with the creation/engineering of tools (e.g. algorithms, databases) that solve problems based on biological data, while Computational Biology is concerned with the (scientific) study of biology using computational techniques with the goal to learn new biology and knowledge about living systems (Russ Altman). Finally, Computational Biomedical Engineering is an emerging research field concerned with the development of software and hardware tools to ultimately enhance human health.

Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering are fields in which challenges and issues can often be formulated as optimization problems subject to multiple conflicting objectives. Such multiobjective optimization problems span from traditional problems, such as the optimization of biochemical processes, construction of gene regulatory networks, protein structure alignment and prediction, to more modern problems, such as big data analysis of healthcare data, and medical imaging and pattern recognition.

The main aim of this special session is to bring together both experts and new-comers working on Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering to discuss new and exciting issues in this area.

We encourage submission of methodology papers describing new challenges and optimization techniques as well as application papers discussing the power and applicability of these novel methods to multiobjective problems in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering. You are invited to submit papers that are unpublished original work for this special session at IEEE CIBCB 2016. The topics are, but not limited to, the following


Submission instructions

We welcome original contributions describing ongoing projects or completed work. The instructions for authors, and LaTeX and Word templates can be found at http://www.cibcb2016.org/


Important dates

Paper submission: April 30, 2016
Author notification: June 30, 2016
Final Submission: July 30, 2016


Program committee

Ashlock Daniel, University of Guelph, Canada
Ashlock Wendy, York University, Canada
Auephanwiriyakul Sansanee, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Branke Juergen, University of Warwick, UK
Brown Joseph, Innopolis University, Russia
Brown Michael, University of Maryland University College, USA
Coker James, University of Maryland University College, USA
Corns Steven, Missouri University, USA
Fogel Gary, Natural Selection Inc, USA
Handl Julia, University of Manchester, UK
Houghton Sheridan, Brock University, Canada
Jin Yaochu, University of Surrey, UK
Jung-Hsien Chiang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Knowles Joshua, University of Manchester, UK
Langdon Bill, University College London, UK
Lavygina Anna, Imperial College London, UK
Mostaghim Sanaz, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Nicosia Giuseppe, University of Catania, Italy
Rombo Simona, University of Palermo, Italy
Wiese Kay, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yifeng Li, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada


Contact

Please feel free to contact us
Richard Allmendinger: richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk
Julia Handl: julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk
Laetitia Jourdan: laetitia.jourdan@univ-lille1.fr


About the organizers

Richard Allmendinger is a Lecturer at the Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS), The University of Manchester, UK. Richard has joined Alliance MBS after a 4-year long stint as Postdoc at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies, University College London (UCL), UK. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK, and a Diplom in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT), Germany, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia.
Richard is Chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, and Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee. His main research interest is the development and application of optimization and learning techniques to real-world problems arising in areas such as bioprocessing, experimental optimization, economics, and product design.

Webpage: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Richard.Allmendinger/default.htm

Julia Handl is a lecturer in the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Group at the University of Manchester. Prior to this I was an MRC Special Training Fellow at the University of Manchester and the University of Washington. I hold a PhD from the University of Manchester, a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Bachelor (Hons) degree from Monash University.

Webpage: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/mbs/julia.handl/

Laetitia Jourdan is full Professor in Computer Sciences at University of Lille 1/CRIStAL since 2011. She received a MSc degree in computer science and mathematics from the University Paris Dauphine in 1999 and University of Lille in 2000. In 2003, Pr. Jourdan obtained a PhD in combinatorial optimization from the University of Lille 1. From 2004 to 2005, she was a research associate at the University of Exeter (UK). Then she was researcher with tenure at INRIA from 2005 to 2011. She holds her dissertation to lead researches (``HDR: Habilitation \`{a} Diriger des Recherches’’) from the Univ. of Lille in 2010. Her areas of research are modelling datamining task as combinatorial optimization problems, solving methods based on metaheuristics, incorporate learning in metaheuristics and multi objective optimization with application to health and bioinformatics.

Webpage: http://www.lifl.fr/~jourdan/pmwiki2/index.php