BIOKDD 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (BIOKDD'11)

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Deadline: March 30, 2011 | Date: August 29, 2011-September 02, 2011

Venue/Country: Toulouse, France

Updated: 2011-02-14 14:57:26 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (BIOKDD'11)

Held in parallel with

22nd International Conference on Database and

Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’11)

www.dexa.org

Toulouse, France

August 29 - September 2, 2011

With the development of Molecular Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth

of both the volume and the complexity of biological data. For example, the Human Genome Project provided

the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided

too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era: after having

focused so many efforts on the accumulation of data, we have now to focus as much effort, and even more, on

the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of data is a challenging task because, not only, 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 use computer tools and develop new in

silico high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological data and, hence, to help us in our

understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns of biological

sequences and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery and Data

Mining (KDD) are a response to these new trends.

Topics of BIOKDD'11 workshop include, but not limited to:

Data Preprocessing: Biological Data Storage, Representation and Management (data warehouses,

databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Data Cleaning (errors

removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …),

Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …)

Data Mining: Biological Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological data

clustering/biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological

Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data,

Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel,

Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Data Mining

Data Postprocessing: Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge

Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification

error rate, evaluation of the association rules via numerical indicators, e.g. measurements of interest, … ),

Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed

5 pages in IEEE format . All accepted papers will

be published in the proceedings of DEXA’11 Workshops with IEEE CSP. One of the authors of an accepted

paper must register to DEXA’11 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’11 workshop. For paper

2/2

registration and electronic submission see <http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2011/>, starting from January

2011.

Extended versions of selected accepted papers will be published as chapters in a book, entitled

Biological Knowledge Discovery Handbook: Preprocessing, Mining and Postprocessing of Biological

Data, which will be published by Wiley, USA .

IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full Papers: March 30, 2011

Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2011

Camera-ready Copies: May 23, 2011

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Mourad Elloumi, UTIC, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair)

El Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France

Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Mohammed Sohel Rahman, King's College London, UK

Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy

Giorgio Valentini, University of Milano, Italy

Alexandros Stamatakis, University of Munich, Germany

Mohamed Elati, University of Evry Val-d'Essonne, France

Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Italy

Alfredo Pulvirenti, University of Catania, Italy

Pierre Peterlongo, INRIA, France

Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Carlo Cattani, University of Salerno, Italy

Giulia Menconi, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Roma, Italy

Ali Al Mazari, Al Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Chiara Epifanio, University of Palermo, Italy

Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy

Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK

Rosalba Giugno, University of Catania, Italy

Oleg Okun, The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus

Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK

Fawzi Mhamdi, UTIC, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Florin Leon, Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Mihai Horia Zaharia, Technical University of Iasi, Romania