[TYPES/announce] CMSB 2019 - first call for papers

[Luca Bortolussi]

*CMSB 2019*
17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology
Trieste, September 18-20, 2019
https://cmsb2019.units.it/

First Call for Contributions

The 17th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB  
2019) will take place from 18th to 20th September 2019 in Trieste,  
Italy. Its aim is to bring together researchers from across  
biological, mathematical, computational, and physical sciences who are  
interested in the study, modelling, simulation, advanced analysis, and  
design of biological systems. CMSB 2019 will be hosted at the  
University of Trieste.


INVITED SPEAKERS
Benenson Kobi, synthetic biology group, ETH Zurich, CH
Adelinde Uhrmacher, Modelling and Simulation Group, Rostock University, DE
Other invited speakers will be announced soon.

IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth).

Paper submission:
10.4.2019
Author notification:
5.6.2019
Final version:
21.6.2019
Presentation and poster abstract submission:
28.6.2019

TOPICS OF INTEREST
CMSB 2019 solicits original research articles, tool papers, posters,  
and presentations on the modelling and analysis of biological systems  
and networks as well as the analysis of biological data. The  
conference brings together computer scientists, biologists,  
mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level  
understanding of biological processes. It covers the broad field of  
computational methods and tools in systems and synthetic biology and  
their applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- formalisms for modelling biological processes
- models, methods, tools and their biological applications
- frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and  
simulation of biological systems
- high-performance methods for computational systems biology
- parameter and model inference from experimental data
- automated parameter and model synthesis
- model integration and biological databases
- multi-scale modelling and analysis methods
- design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology
- methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices
- theoretical systems biology
- data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology
In general, the conference is open to new theoretical results with  
potential applications to systems and synthetic biology, as well as  
novel applications and case studies of existing methods, tools, or  
frameworks.
The CMSB 2019 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS  
series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library,  
DBLP, and Google Scholar.

A selection of best papers will be invited to be extended and  
submitted to a special issue of a Bioinformatics journal.

Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories:

A) Regular papers
B) Tool papers
C) Posters
D) Presentations


A) CALL FOR REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers should describe original work that has not been  
previously published and is not under review for publication  
elsewhere. The papers should not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS  
style, not counting references and well-marked appendices.

B) CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS
Tool papers should present new tools or public websites, new tool  
components or novel extensions to existing tools or websites  
supporting the modelling, specification and analysis of biological  
systems. Each submission should be original and not previously  
published in a tool paper form. The papers should not exceed 6 pages  
in Springer LNCS style including references, but not counting  
well-marked appendices. The papers must include information on  
methods, tool availability, and selected experimental results. Tool  
papers are required to be submitted together with an artefact by the  
submission deadline (for details see the guidelines –  
https://cmsb2019.units.it/?page_id=219).
Artefacts will be evaluated by the tool evaluation committee in  
parallel with the review procedure. The program committee will have  
access to the tool artefact evaluation while making their decision.
In special cases, where an artefact cannot be submitted, the authors  
are suggested to contact the program chairs to find alternate modes of  
evaluation. Apart of the presentation, accepted tool papers will be  
encouraged to include a showcase/running demo during the tool demo  
session.

C) CALL FOR POSTERS
CMSB 2018 solicits poster abstracts presenting I) original unpublished  
work and II) recent outstanding results already accepted to a  
recognised journal or a high-quality conference during the last year.  
The abstracts should be submitted in Springer LNCS style and should  
not exceed 2 pages including references. Based on the abstracts the  
program committee will select posters to be presented at the CMSB 2018  
poster session including flash presentations.

D) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
CMSB 2018 offers the track of oral presentations without full paper or  
poster submission. We welcome submissions of work that has been  
already published in a journal, or that is currently under review or  
will soon be submitted. The abstracts summarizing the results and  
their relevance should not exceed 2 pages including references. The  
document format must be single spaced and written in an 11 point type  
font.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION
All papers and poster/presentation abstracts have to be written in  
English and submitted electronically using the EasyChair online  
submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2019)  
in the form of a PDF file.  Each submission will be reviewed by at  
least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the  
appendices and thus the submissions must be intelligible without them.

All accepted contributions must be presented at the conference by one  
of the authors.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, IT
Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK
Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Nikola Beneš, Masaryk University, CZ
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, IT (co-chair)
Giulio Caravagna, Institute of Cancer Research London, UK
Luca Cardelli, University of Oxford, UK
Milan Češka, Brno University of Technology, CZ
Claudine Chaouiya, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT
Eugenio Cinquemani, IBIS – INRIA, Grenoble, FR
Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, FR
Hidde de Jong, IBIS – INRIA, Grenoble FR
François Fages, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France, FR
Jérôme Feret, INRIA, Paris, FR
Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna, AT
Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside, USA
Tomáš Gedeon, Montana State University, US
Monika        Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE
Jane Hillston, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Heinz Köppl, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE
Jean Krivine, IRIF, Paris Diderot University, FR
Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel, IT
Laura Nenzi, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Marco Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, IT
Diego Oyarzún - Imperial College London, UK
Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University, USA
Loïc Paulevé, CNRS/LRI, FR
Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi Turku, FI
Tatjana        Petrov, Universität Konstanz, DE
Carla Piazza, University of Udine, IT
Ovidiu Radulescu, University of Montpellier 2, FR
Olivier Roux, Ecole Centrale Nantes, FR
Jakob Ruess - Institute Pasteur Paris, FR
Guido Sanguinetti, The University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair)
Thomas Sauter, University of Luxembourg, LU
Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, US
David Šafránek, Masaryk University, CZ
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US
P.S. Thiagarajan, Harvard University, US
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE
Stefanie Winkelmann - Zuse Institut Berlin, DE
Verena Wolf, Saarland University, DE
Boyan Yordanov – Microsoft Research, UK
Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK

TOOL EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Dimitrios Milios, Eurecom, FR (chair)
Simone Silvetti, Esteco SpA, IT

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS
Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste (Italy)
Laura Nenzi - University of Trieste (Italy)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste (Italy)
Francesca Cairoli - University of Trieste (Italy)
Simone Silvetti - Esteco SpA (Trieste)
Laura Nenzi - University of Trieste (Italy)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Finn Drablos, NTNU, NO
François Fages, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France, FR
David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Monika Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE
Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel, IT
Satoru Miyano, The University of Tokyo, JP
Gordon Plotkin, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Corrado Priami, University of Pisa, IT
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE