From ivanoe.defalco from na.icar.cnr.it Thu Dec 4 04:53:46 2008 From: ivanoe.defalco from na.icar.cnr.it (Ivanoe De Falco) Date: Thu Dec 4 12:29:41 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] BADS 2009 - call for papers Message-ID: <4937A8AA.7060700@na.icar.cnr.it> (Apologies if you have received this more than once) ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS) http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it June 19, 2009 In association with ICAC 2009 the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing & Communications June 15-19, 2009 **** IMPORTANT DATES **** January 31, 2009: Submission of Papers March 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection April 06, 2009: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies June 19, 2009: Workshop Takes Place **** PUBLICATION **** The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM along with the proceedings of the other ICAC workshops, and distributed at the conference. **** JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE **** Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (approved). **** SCOPE **** Currently used computer systems are characterized by an ever growing complexity and a pronounced distributed nature. While the use of centralized or hierarchical architectures and algorithms has been dominant so far, they are now becoming impractical because they have poor scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. Decentralized architectures and algorithms, for example P2P and Grid systems, are increasingly popular, but they need new types of algorithms to be efficiently managed. Bio-inspired algorithms are proving effective, since they can solve hard parallel and distributed computational problems through the interaction of multiple agents. The behaviour of agents is often inspired by a number of biological systems, including ant colonies, bird flocking, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. The solution of a problem can emerge from the activity of "intelligent" agents that perform complex functionalities or from the interaction of a large number of very simple agents, in the so called "swarm intelligence" systems. These kinds of techniques feature fault-tolerant and self-adaptive behaviours that help to boost the autonomic nature of distributed systems. Such techniques are sometimes "evolutionary", as they can exploit genetic rules for the selection and the recombination of candidate solutions. Bio-inspired algorithms and systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are optimization problems solved with genetic algorithms, routing strategies inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery and data mining computations in Grid and P2P frameworks achieved by ant-inspired algorithms, and so on. The workshop aims to gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Systems. **** AREAS OF INTEREST **** In this workshop we are interested in the exploitation of bio-inspired algorithms and systems to support the effective design and efficient implementation of distributed systems. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired algorithms for parallel and distributed computing * Bio-inspired algorithms for P2P and Grid systems * Bio-inspired techniques for the construction and management of distributed systems * Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, flock of birds, etc.. * Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms * High performance tools for bio-inspired algorithms and systems * Application of bio-inspired algorithms to routing, resource discovery, scheduling in parallel and distributed systems * Bio-inspired algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy, folino@icar.cnr.it Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK, nxk@cs.nott.ac.uk Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy, mastroianni@icar.cnr.it Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, franco.zambonelli@unimore.it **** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, UK Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands. Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de M?laga, Spain Muaz Niazi, Foundation University of Islamabad, Pakistan Giuseppe Nicosia, Universit? di Catania, Italy Gauthier Picard, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Saint?tienne, France Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland **** WEB SITE AND CONTACT E-MAIL **** http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Original papers (a maximum of 8 pages in length) are invited. Please follow the formatting instructions that will be posted at the web site. The call is open to all members of the Autonomic Computing and Distributed Systems communities. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the International Program Committee and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. From wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org Thu Dec 4 23:25:27 2008 From: wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org (wcecs_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Fri Dec 5 11:57:33 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Call for Papers Reminder (extended): International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists IMECS 2009 Message-ID: <63b94d19-37a0-4582-87cf-a5b97e8a1b56@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> CFP Reminder (extended): International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists IMECS 2009 From: International Association of Engineers International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2009 18-20 March, 2009, Hong Kong http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009 All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-17012-2-0). Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between Springer, America Institute of Physics, IEEE Computer Society, and IAENG. The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. For reference, the recent IAENG post conference edited books include titles like for example: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, and Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research by Springer. The IMECS 2009 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The IMECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Our IMECS committees have been formed with over two hundred and sixty committees members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from over 30 countries. The last IMECS 2008 has attracted more than one thousand participants from over 50 countries. The IMECS 2009 is composed of the following 13 conferences (all will be held at the same location and date): ICAIA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications ICB'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Bioinformatics ICCA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Control and Automation ICCS'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Computer Science ICCSA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications ICDMA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications ICEE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICIE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering ICINDE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Industrial Engineering ICICWS'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services ICOR'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research ICSC'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Scientific Computing ICSE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Software Engineering ========= Submission: IMECS 2009 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to imecs{at}iaeng.org by 30 December, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. ============= Important Dates: Draft Manuscript submission deadline (extended): 30 December, 2008 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration due: 10 January, 2009 IMECS 2009: 18-20 March, 2009 It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/ or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ). IMECS MultiConference Co-chairs Prof. Craig Douglas (honorary co-chair) Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky Senior Research Scientist (corresponding to nonteaching full professor) Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA Prof. Ping-kong Alexander Wai (honorary co-chair) Chair Professor of Optical Communications and Dean of Faculty of Engineering Programme Chairman, Engineering Doctorate Programme Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Prof. Oscar Castillo Professor and Research Director of Computer Science Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico Former Adjunct Professor of San Diego State University, USA President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) Vice-Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE) Prof. David Dagan Feng, Ph.D, FACS, FATSE, FHKIE, FIEE, FIEEE Professor and Head, School of Information Technologies Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia Prof. Jeong-A Lee Professor of Department of Computer Engineering Chosun University, South Korea More details about the IMECS 2009 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/IMECS2009/index.html http://www.iaeng.com/IMECS2009/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues. From y.xin from utah.edu Sat Dec 13 22:51:25 2008 From: y.xin from utah.edu (Percey) Date: Sun Dec 14 12:53:06 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] cell migration Message-ID: <20997122.post@talk.nabble.com> I am doing cell migration assay using micro glia cells. Migrated cells are labeled with Calcein. Can you give me advice on 1, can I use ABI 7300 to read the plates or I have to use a fluorescent plate reader? 2, which company sell phenol red-free MEM? 3, Does CV at 10-20% acceptable for cell migration assay? Thanks Percey -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cell-migration-tp20997122p20997122.html Sent from the Bio.net - Bioforum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. From regis.bates from gmail.com Mon Dec 22 00:18:41 2008 From: regis.bates from gmail.com (Rb) Date: Mon Dec 22 13:47:28 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Biomedical Search Engine - VADLO for Biomedical Powerpoints Message-ID: *New Biomedical Search Engine VADLO* Site : Vadlo (http://www.vadlo.com) Daily Research Cartoons: http://www.vadlo.com/Daily_Research_Cartoon.html Examples: http://search.vadlo.com/b/q?k=Leukemia&rel=2 http://search.vadlo.com/b/q?k=Bipolar&rel=2 http://search.vadlo.com/b/q?k=ACE+Inhibitors&rel=2 Description: Vadlo is a search engine for the biology/biomedical scientists. Find Lab methods, techniques, recipes, bioinformatics links, websites, resources, lectures, & answers to life sciences research queries on how to make & where to get information. From HISHAM from uhcl.edu Tue Dec 23 13:00:15 2008 From: HISHAM from uhcl.edu (Al-Mubaid, Hisham) Date: Tue Dec 23 14:25:19 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] SEDE-2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4B57CB6706E6144C9D5D960FEEDA8E8E01DDF293@EXUHCL1.pclab.uhcl.edu> SEDE-2009 Call for Papers 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering June 22 - 24, 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://sce.cl.uh.edu/sede09/ The 18th SEDE Conference invites submissions in all areas of Software Engineering (SE) and Data Engineering (DE). The SEDE-2009 is interested in gathering researchers and professionals in the SE and DE to present and discuss high quality research results and outcomes in their fields. The conference also includes a Best Paper Award given for a paper presented at the conference. The conference will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, the following topics. SE: Requirements Engineering, Software Specification, Software Design, Software Testing, Software Engineering Education, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering, Software Processes, Project Management. DE: Data Mining, Distributed, Parallel, Peer-to-Peer Databases, Scientific and Biological Databases and Bioinformatics, Data Grids, Data Warehousing, OLAP. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline.........................Feb 13, 2009 Notification of Acceptance..........................March 30, 2009 Registration and Camera-ready Manuscripts......May 1, 2009 Software Engineering Software Modeling, Development, & Maintenance Software Requirements Engineering Software Verification and Model Checking Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering AI and Knowledge-based Software Engineering Formal and Semi-Formal Methods Object-Oriented & Model-Driven Techniques Service- and Aspect-Oriented Techniques Web Engineering and Agents Programming and Description Languages Software Visualization & Program Understanding Software Quality and Software Metrics Software Security, Safety, and Reliability Software Components & Software Architectures Software Processes, Project Management Human-Computer Interaction Internet and Information Systems Development Software Engineering Education Applications and Case Studies Data Engineering Distributed, Parallel, and Peer-to-Peer Databases Semi-Structured Data and XML Databases Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata Data Mining: Traditional, Large-Scale, and Parallel Ubiquitous Data Management and Mobile Databases Data Privacy and Security Scientific and Biological Databases and Bioinformatics Data Grids, Data Warehousing, OLAP Temporal, Spatial, Sensor, and Multimedia Databases Taxonomy and Categorization Pattern Recognition, Clustering, and Classification Knowledge Management and Ontologies Query Processing and Optimization Data Structures Database Applications and Experiences Web Data Management and Deep Web Submission Procedures Papers will be accepted ONLY BY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION in PDF format. All submissions must be uploaded through this web site by February 13 2009: https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?ConID=86 . The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings, which will be a maximum of 6 pages (+2 pages with additional page fees) in ISCA format: http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf . If you encounter any difficulties during submission or if you require further information, please contact: isca@ipass.net Program Co-Chair Program Co-Chair Sergiu Dascalu Hisham Al-Mubaid University of Nevada, Reno, USA University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA +1 (775) 784-4613 +1 (281) 283-3802 dascalus@cse.unr.edu hisham@uhcl.edu Conference website: http://sce.cl.uh.edu/sede09/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/bioforum/attachments/20081223/7e8cb0eb/attachment.html From biospace from noster-it.com Sun Dec 28 00:23:58 2008 From: biospace from noster-it.com (biospace) Date: Sun Dec 28 01:37:36 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Inflammation In Fat Tissue Message-ID: <91cb919f-27dd-4b2c-9471-5f04fcd9c045@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> Individuals who are obese are at increased risk of developing a combination of medical disorders associated with type 2 diabetes and heart disease known as the metabolic syndrome. Recent studies have suggested that adipose (fat) tissue obesity induces an inflammatory state that is crucial to the development of the metabolic syndrome. In a new study, Satoshi Nishimura, Ichiro Manabe, and colleagues at the University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a technique based on confocal laser microscopy to visualize cellular interactions within mouse adipose tissue in vivo with high spatiotemporal resolution. Changes indicative of inflammation were observed in the adipose tissue of both mice that were obese through genetic mutations and mice that were obese as a result of being fed a high-fat diet. In addition, endothelial cells of the adipose tissue could be seen interacting with inflammatory cells known as macrophages, indicating a central role for interplay between these two cell types in the activation of inflammation within the adipose tissue. The authors therefore concluded that adipose tissue obesity is an inflammatory disease and suggested that this technique might allow the efficacy of potential therapeutics for the treatment of individuals with diseases stemming from adipose tissue obesity to be evaluated in vivo in mice. Journal article: In vivo imaging in mice reveals local cell dynamics and inflammation in obese adipose tissue. Journal of Clinical Investigation. Jan. 17, 2008 Tonny -------------- More bio-med news & videos Portal to share biological information-data between people http://biospace.ethz.ch From wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org Tue Dec 30 17:07:10 2008 From: wcecs_2008 from iaeng.org (wcecs_2008@iaeng.org) Date: Tue Dec 30 18:44:07 2008 Subject: [Bioforum] Last Call for Papers Reminder (extended): International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists IMECS 2009 Message-ID: <4e327eac-b8a7-43fc-9d53-5c1825fa7ce2@f20g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> Last CFP Reminder (extended): International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists IMECS 2009 From: International Association of Engineers Draft Manuscript submission deadline (extended): 7 January, 2009 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration due: 10 January, 2009 IMECS 2009: 18-20 March, 2009 http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009 All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-17012-2-0). Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between Springer, America Institute of Physics, IEEE Computer Society, and IAENG. The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. For reference, the recent IAENG post conference edited books include titles like for example: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, and Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research by Springer. The IMECS 2009 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The IMECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Our IMECS committees have been formed with over two hundred and sixty committees members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from over 30 countries. The last IMECS 2008 has attracted more than one thousand participants from over 50 countries. The IMECS 2009 is composed of the following 13 conferences (all will be held at the same location and date): ICAIA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications ICB'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Bioinformatics ICCA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Control and Automation ICCS'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Computer Science ICCSA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications ICDMA'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications ICEE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICIE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering ICINDE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Industrial Engineering ICICWS'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services ICOR'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research ICSC'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Scientific Computing ICSE'09 The 2009 IAENG International Conference on Software Engineering ========= Submission: IMECS 2009 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to imecs{at}iaeng.org by 7 January, 2009. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCE congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues ( for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/ or http://www.conference-ranking.org/cs.html ). IMECS MultiConference Co-chairs Prof. Craig Douglas (honorary co-chair) Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky Senior Research Scientist (corresponding to nonteaching full professor) Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky (honorary co-chair) Professor of Engineering Science Dean, Trinity College Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK Prof. Ping-kong Alexander Wai (honorary co-chair) Chair Professor of Optical Communications and Dean of Faculty of Engineering Programme Chairman, Engineering Doctorate Programme Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Prof. Oscar Castillo Professor and Research Director of Computer Science Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico Former Adjunct Professor of San Diego State University, USA President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) Vice-Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE) Prof. David Dagan Feng, Ph.D, FACS, FATSE, FHKIE, FIEE, FIEEE Professor and Head, School of Information Technologies Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia Prof. Jeong-A Lee Professor of Department of Computer Engineering Chosun University, South Korea More details about the IMECS 2009 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/IMECS2009/index.html http://www.iaeng.com/IMECS2009/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues.