Computer Modeling meetings & conferences

ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO)

October 29, 2012

In conjunction with ACM 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) Maui, Hawaii, USA

October 29-November 2, 2012

DTMBIO 12 organizers are pleased to announce that the sixth DTMBIO will be held in conjunction with CIKM, one of the largest data and text mining conferences. While CIKM presents the state-of-the-art research in informatics with the primary focus on data and text mining, the main focus of DTMBIO is on biomedical and healthcare informatics. DTMBIO delegates will bring forth interesting applications of up-to-date informatics in the context of biomedical research.

Biological researchers face the current challenge of making effective use of the enormous amount of electronic biomedical data in order to better understand and explain complex biological systems. The biomedical data repositories include data in a wide variety of forms, including bibliographic information from electronic medical journals, gene expression data from Microarray experiments, protein identification and quantification data from proteomics experiments, genomic sequences gathered by the Human Genome Project, and patient healthcare records. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, integrate, understand and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous - structured and unstructured - data remains a challenging task.

Topic of Interest
The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to):

- Proposal and assessment of novel Text Mining (TM) evaluation
- Evaluation methods of biomedical applications, shared tasks
- Biomedical and Clinical text mining applications
- Information extraction from biomedical and clinical corpora (full texts, abstracts, EHRs, clinical trials, etc)
- Information retrieval from large biomedical data collections
- Gene sequence annotation
- Protein/RNA structure prediction
- Medical Ontologies and Text Mining
- Sequence and structural motifs
- Modeling of biochemical pathways and biological networks
- Image Mining in Medical and healthcare informatics
- Data and Text Mining solutions in biomedical informatics, for applications such as drug development, system biology, biomedical working processes
- Information integration for Data and Text Mining
- Mining multi-relational data

NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013

5 to 7 March 2013 Brussels, Belgium

NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013 is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems.

The purpose of the conference is to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects, to encourage cooperation and possible building of consortia by researchers with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics and to prepare activities related to research in statistics within the next European Framework Programme for Research and Development (Horizon 2020).

Previous NTTS conferences were organised in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2009 and 2011.

The NTTS 2013 conference will take place from 5 to 7 March 2013 in Brussels.

Aim and scope

Present and share the outcomes of recent research activities in statistics in general and in official statistics including Eurostat ESSnet projects and VIP (Vision Infrastructure Projects).

Promote new research methodological and technological development for use by Official Statistics.

Present the new research framework from 2014 onwards (Horizon 2020) in terms of orientations and deadlines and prepare further content and partnership for possible proposals submission.

Discuss future needs and developments of research in statistics, new paradigms for data use, access and retrieval (open data, big data, organic data) and ICT developments and infrastructures for use by Official Statistics.

Conference topics

NTTS 2013 addresses research and development aspects related to innovative methods and techniques for official statistics with a particular emphasis on automatic and ICT-based methods. Papers are accepted in the following areas:

New ways of collecting, accessing and using big amount of data. The Cyber-infrastructure has changed the way data are collected, accessed and managed. New sampling techniques and new survey approaches and methodologies for Official Statistics are also an important aspect of this area.

Integration, consolidation, combination of multiple data sources. ICT-based surveys and cross-linking of statistical data and their combination with textual, spatial, transactional and/or image information coming from different sources are an example of this phenomenon. The combination and use of multiple types of ancillary information (administrative data, organic data) is another example.

Analysing data. The high dimensionality, large amount and diversity of data types and structures, require new paradigms, mathematical background, computational methods and modeling approaches for data mining and analysis. The need to monitor and measure policies at different geographical levels (Small Area Estimation) requires new modeling techniques. New paradigms like moving from data to statistical information and from statistical information to knowledge should be considered. Issues like estimation methods and management of non-response are also be part of this area.

Distributing, presenting and accessing data and microdata. ICT has deeply changed the way information is presented, distributed and accessed. This has an impact on statistical data dissemination, visualization and retrieval. Topics like narratives, remote access, graphical and data visualization tools, data confidentiality, synthetic files are included in this area.

Support for evidence-based policymaking. Robust and scalable indicators building models have been produced for decades. How can new indicators be generated using multiple data types and how can we ensure their quality? Topics on GDP and Beyond and Well-Being indicators are also part of this area.

Use of standards for Official statistics. The ESS is confronted with new requirements for designing the future architecture of integrated statistical production systems. This requires further research and development in the use and integration of meta/paradata and their format, reengineering of the statistical production chain using enterprise architecture modeling, new collaborative tools and innovative distributed environments.

International Conference in Modeling Health Advances (ICMHA'12)

San Francisco, USA, 24-26 October, 2012

The International Conference in Modeling Health Advances 2012 will take place in San Francisco, USA, 24-26 October, 2012.

A host of new diseases, like HIV/AIDS, BSE, Avian Flu, West Nile Virus and others have appeared on the scene during the last twenty five years and undoubtedly, more will come in the coming years. To tackle these illnesses, the cooperation of modelers, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and others, and of researchers from the medical community is absolutely essential. Modeling is important because it gives important insight into the method of treatment. In the case of HIV/AIDS, for example, mathematical modeling indicated that a combination of both protease inhibitors and reverse transcriptase inhibitors would be far more effective than any one of these two drugs.

The purpose of this conference is to bring all the people working in the area of epidemiology under one roof and encourage mutual interaction.

The conference ICMHA'12 is held under the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science WCECS 2012. The WCECS 2012 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for engineers and computer scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The last IAENG conference has attracted more than five hundred participants from over 30 countries. All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-19251-6-9). 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 by publishers like Springer.

Genome Informatics Workshop 2012

December 12-14, 2012 Tainan, Taiwan

Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) is the longest running international bioinformatics conference in the world. The scope includes all works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on the molecular basis and the aims are to present recent results of both theoretical and practical research, to demonstrate biological systems, and to show new applications and directions of future research. The first GIW was held at Tokyo in 1990. Since then, GIW has been held annually around the countries in Asia-Pacific region. This year's GIW is the 23rd anniversary and will be held at Tainan in Taiwan. The purpose of GIW2012 is to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to exchange ideas and approaches.

National Cheng Kung University and Taiwan Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (TSBSB) are honored to host the GIW2012. We are delighted to give you a warm welcome to Tainan in Taiwan.

Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Conference

The ISDS Annual Conference is the premier event dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance. This year’s theme, Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance, will highlight the importance of working together across agencies, sectors, and disciplines to improve surveillance methods and population health outcomes. The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA, December 4-5, 2012, with Pre-Conference Workshops on December 3rd.

The ISDS Conference draws professionals from a broad range of disciplines— epidemiology and computer science to mathematical modeling and health policy—to learn and contribute the latest achievements, methodologies, best practices, conceptual frameworks, and technical innovations in the rapidly evolving field of biosurveillance. This year's conference will provide fertile ground for cultivating new ideas and partnerships with roundtable discussions, panels and other opportunities to collaborate.

The scope of this conference includes all of the components, policies, methods, practices, infrastructure, research and evaluation related to timely surveillance of communicable diseases, chronic diseases and injuries. This includes notifiable conditions, adverse events and emerging/novel threats; biological, chemical, and radiological health threats; plant, animal, and food surveillance; and environmental monitoring.

ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2013)

The ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2013) will be held February 4-6, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2013 Congress will focus on the integration of engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology in addressing fundamental problems in biology and medicine and in developing devices, materials and methods for the early detection, imaging of pathological and physiological mechanisms, and treatment of disease.

Technical contributions will consist of oral and poster presentations, including plenary and invited keynote talks. Additional contributions will be presented by members of the engineering community, scientists, clinicians, students and experts from industry and will be focused on the development of new tools, methods and materials impacting biomedicine and life sciences, including nanomedicine and biologically inspired materials and technology.

The following areas will be the focus of NEMB2013:

Track 1 Bioengineering for Medical Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Imaging
Track 2 Nano-/Microfluidics in Biology and Medicine: Analysis, Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Track 3 Nanoengineering for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering
Track 4 Manufacturing and Materials for Nanomedicine, Biology and Nanoengineering
Track 5 Multiscale Modeling and Experiment in Biology and Medicine
Track 6 Biological Nanomechanics: Materials Factors in Physiology, Disease and Treatment
Track 7 Natural, Biomimetic and Bioinspired Materials and Structures
Track 8 Nanotechnology and Public Health

Tutorials on emerging topics of Nanoengineering for Medicine & Biology will be offered.

American Society of Human Genetics 62nd Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 6 through Saturday, November 10, 2012 San Francisco, California

The world's top scientists and clinicians in the human genetics field will gather to present their latest research findings at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), which will be held on November 6-10, 2012, in San Francisco, CA (http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting). ASHG is the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide, representing nearly 8,000 researchers, academicians, clinicians, genetic counselors, nurses, and others with a special interest in this area (http://www.ashg.org).

The ASHG Annual Meeting continues to be the largest human genetics meeting in the world, attracting more than 7,000 scientific participants each year. The ASHG 2012 Meeting will provide attendees with the latest information about cutting-edge developments in human genetics and genomics research. In addition, nearly 250 U.S. and international exhibitors at this year's ASHG Exhibitor Trade Show will offer an unprecedented opportunity to view the latest advances in genetics-related products and services derived, in part, from work presented at previous ASHG meetings.

Topics to be addressed in the scientific program for the ASHG 2012 Meeting will include: gene discovery in human genetics; new insights and challenges from next generation sequencing; advances in medical genetics and translation/applications in clinical care; progress in gene therapy; personalized medicine; cancer genetics; advances in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis; revelations about human alleles from studies of model organisms; implications of population genetic studies; modeling in statistical genetics; data centralization and its implications for our field; ethical, legal and social implications of genomics; changes in genetics education; and much more.

For more information about the ASHG 2012 Annual Meeting, or to register and/or submit an abstract for presentation at this year’s meeting, please go to: http://www.ashg.org/2012meeting.

Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference on Mathematics of Medical Devices and Surgical Procedures

Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 September 2012 University College London United Kingdom

Mathematics is playing an ever increasing role in the area of health and medicine, through the use of modelling, statistics, and virtual simulations. These mathematical tools are becoming invaluable in testing the feasibility of surgical procedures and medical devices prior to clinical trials. Furthermore, there is a very realistic possibility over the next twenty years that computer models coupled to patient-specific imaging will be used in real time in the clinical environment to directly advise on treatment strategies. The aim of this conference is to bring together the diverse community of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, clinicians involved in using applied sciences and mathematics to develop and use medical devices to discuss both the latest research and the needs of the clinical community and patients.

The topics that will be discussed will broadly include cardiovascular devices, medical imaging, ophthalmology, cell biology, disease transmission, orthopaedic, advanced simulations, as well as health in ageing. The conference programme will include keynote speakers drawn from both clinical and mathematical communities, along with contributed presentations and poster sessions. The programme will also include breakout sessions in certain topics as well as refreshment breaks for informal discussions. Social events include a drinks reception and a conference dinner.

Contact information
For scientific queries please contact Ian Eames (i.eames@ucl.ac.uk) or Nick Ovenden (nicko@math.ucl.ac.uk).

For general conference queries please contact Lizzi Lake, Conference Officer
E-mail: conferences@ima.org.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.

Diabetes Technology Meeting

November 8-10, 2012 Bethesda, Maryland

Major topics of the meeting:

Glucose monitoring
Insulin and metabolic peptide delivery
Artificial pancreas
Bioartificial pancreas
Cell phone management
Bolus dose calculation
Information technology
Physiologic monitoring
Software for modeling
Hypoglycemia detection
Diagnostic tests of glycation
Insulin pump and pen therapy
Diabetes telemedicine
Improving adherence to therapy using technology
Tests for complications
Technology for managing obesity