Celebrating 20 years of neural networks!
The 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) marks the 20 year anniversary of this event. To celebrate this important milestone in the neural networks field, the organizers of the conference would like to reflect on past progress and also to inject new energy into the field. The conference will provide an excellent venue to demonstrate the great promise and the real substance behind recent advances in brain inspired computation and the understanding of the brain. The IJCNN is the premier conference in the field of neural networks and Orlando features something for everyone. We would like to extend our warmest welcome to everyone to attend this exciting event: bring your colleagues, students, friends, and family.
Description and Scope
The body of information surrounding molecular and genomic experiments and clinical investigations is rapidly growing as the magnitude and rate of applications involving large-scale high-throughput technologies are ever-increasing. Bioinformatic data mining efforts now range from more recent methods including miRNA target identification and protein structure prediction to classical methods such as ANN and RBFN classification of DNA microarray gene expression data. Data fusion and integration are also gaining considerable attention for merging signals, features, images, and text data from multiple sensors together in order to understand influences of data components on early detection and diagnosis of disease. Altogether, bioinformatics has become a very promising multidisciplinary research topic in the life sciences because results provide new insights for interpretation and establish new leads for deeper understanding. Each year there are numerous Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms introduced providing new examples of application in related fields (clustering, feature selection, text mining, signal and image processing, data visualization, etc.). This session will take stock in new bioinformatic data mining developments in general, and Neural Network methods in particular.
Topics
We welcome papers which present novel algorithms or refined classical methods applied to biological and clinical problems. These include but are not limited to:
-Data integration and fusion
-Ensemble techniques
-Biological sequence identification
-DNA/CGH/SNP/miRNA arrays
-Gene regulatory and ontology networks
-Protein-protein, protein-small molecule interactions
-Protein structure prediction
-Cellular metabolism and signaling
-Pharmacogenomics and pharmacodynamics
-Metabolic pathways
-Signal processing
-Unsupervised and supervised classification
-Imaging/data visualization
-Text mining methods
-Biomarker selection
Audience
-Computer scientists
-Electrical engineers
-Bioinformaticians
-Statisticians
-Molecular biologists
-Other researchers and developers
Submissions
All papers submitted for this special session should be submitted by Jan 31, 2007, Feb 12, 2007, at the regular paper submission website ( http://www.ijcnn2007.org ). Papers should not exceed a maximum of 6 pages (including abstract, body, tables, figures, and references), and should be submitted as a pdf in IEEE format. LaTeX document class files for IEEE format can be found here
When submitting your manuscript, select the topic: "8d. Neural Network Applications in Bioinformatics (A. Floares, L. Peterson)"
Important Dates
Submission deadline: January 31, 2007 (Deadline Extended to February 12, 2007)
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2007
Final papers due: April 30, 2007
Organizers
Alexandru Floares, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca Romania, E-mail: alexandru.floares <at> iocn.ro
Leif Peterson, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dept. of Public Health, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, E-mail: lepeterson <at> tmh.tmc.edu