[TYPES/announce] 2nd call for papers: CMSB 2016

[Nicola Paoletti]

[Apologies for multiple copies.]

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                            CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

                                 CMSB 2016 

                      14th International Conference on 
                  Computational Methods in Systems Biology


                 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/cmsb2016

                21st-23rd September 2016 Computer Laboratory
                         University of Cambridge (UK)

SPONSORED BY: 

   - NVIDIA Corporation
   - IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM)

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Description

CMSB 2016 solicits original research articles on the analysis of
biological systems, networks, data, and corresponding application domains.
The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists,
mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level
understanding of biological processes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
- formalisms for modelling biological processes
- models and their biological applications
- frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation
of biological systems
- high-performance Computational Systems Biology and parallel 
implementations
- model inference from experimental data
- model integration from biological databases
- multi-scale modelling and analysis methods
- methods for synthetic biology and biomolecular computing

Papers should be submitted to one of the following categories:
- Regular papers
- Tool papers

Proceedings of CMSB 2016 will be published as a volume in Springer's 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 
series (LNCS/LNBI).

After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be 
extended and submitted to a special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM 
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 

CMSB 2016 will give two best paper awards: 
one IEEE TCSIM Best Student Paper Award and one NVIDIA Best Paper Award.

The Best Student Paper Award recipient is given public recognition 
and receives an award of 500 US$ from the IEEE Technical Committee 
on Simulation (TCSIM). For a paper to qualify for the Best Student 
Paper Award, a student must be the lead author, the submission must 
be done in the student paper category and the student must present 
the paper at the conference.

The NVIDIA Best Paper Award recipient is given public recognition 
and receives one high end Tesla K40 GPU equipment of a value of 3,200 US$ 
donated by NVIDIA. Any paper on any topic of CMSB can qualify for this 
award provided the submission indicates the NVIDIA Best Paper Award category. 

CMSB 2016 will give also one IEEE TCSIM Best Poster award:

The Best Poster Award recipient is given public recognition 
and receives an award of 300 US$ from the IEEE Technical Committee 
on Simulation (TCSIM).


Invited Speakers

- Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge / University of Oxford (UK)
- Joelle Despeyroux, INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)
- Radu Grosu, TU Wien (Austria)
- Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh (UK)

Call for Papers

Format for regular papers:
Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously
published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must
be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be
submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for
submissions is 12 pages. Appendices will not not be counted in the page
limit.

Format and guidelines for tool papers:
Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of
biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published
previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and
must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF
files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages. Appendices will
not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on
methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results.
Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of
submission for evaluation by the committee. Each submission must be
accompanied by a supplementary PDF file illustrating the usage of the tool
(e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable,
how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation.
Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a
showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk.

Important Dates
- Abstract pre-submission: April 15, 2016
- Paper submission: April 22, 2016
- Poster Submission: June 1, 2016
- Poster/Paper Notification: June 10, 2016
- Camera-ready: June 25, 2016


PC co-Chairs
- Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien (Austria)
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge (UK)
- Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford (UK)

Tool Track Chair
- Claudio Angione, Teesside University (UK)

Local Organisation Chair
- Max Conway, University of Cambridge (UK)

Program Committee
- Claudio Angione, Teesside University (UK)
- Julio Banga, IIM-CSIC (Spain)
- Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien (Austria)
- Gregory Batt, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (France)
- Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste (Italy)
- Jeremie Bourdon, Université de Nantes (France)
- Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
- Milan Ceska, University of Oxford (UK)
- Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Joelle Despeyroux, INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)
- Diego Di Bernardo, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
- François Fages, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (France)
- Flavio H Fenton, Georgia Tech (USA)
- Jerome Feret, INRIA / Ecole normale supérieure (France)
- Calin Guet, IST Austria (Austria)
- Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany)
- Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario (USA)
- Heinz Koeppl, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany)
- Hillel Kugler, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
- Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford (UK)
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge (UK)
- Oded Maler, CNRS-VERIMAG (France)
- Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
- Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester (UK) 
- Nicola Paoletti, University of Oxford (UK)
- Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria (Austria)
- Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
- Carla Piazza, University of Udine (Italy)
- Ovidiu Radulescu, University of Montpellier 2 (France)
- Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford (UK)
- Olivier Roux, École Centrale de Nantes (France)
- David Šafránek, Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
- Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Scott A. Smolka, Stony Brook University (USA)
- Joerg Stelling, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International (USA)
- P S Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (Germany)
- Verena Wolf, Saarland University (Germany)
- Boyan Yordanov, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
- Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University (UK)


Steering Committee
- Jeremie Bourdon, Université de Nantes (France)
- Finn Drablos, NTNU (Norway)
- François Fages, INRIA Saclay (France)
- David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
- Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany)
- Tommaso Mazza, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Mendel (Italy)
- Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester (UK)
- Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Corrado Priami, CoSBi / University of Trento (Italy)
- Olivier Roux, École Centrale de Nantes (France)
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International (USA)
- Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (Germany)