Computer Modeling meetings & conferences

2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research.

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management

March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria

ICT-DM'2014 is the inaugural edition for a new conference event on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Disaster Management. The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in the emergency services, emergency planning, disaster management and allied professions, to learn about latest developments, share research, experiences and information about this area.

Disasters are events that cause dramatic losses of life and property and disrupt the normal functioning of the economy and society on a large scale. Disaster management is multifaceted process for developing strategies to reduce the impact of disasters and provide assistance to affected populations. Disaster management involves information- and communication-intensive activities before, during and after disaster strikes. The revolutionary potential of ICTs lies in their ability to instantly and continuously facilitate rapid communication and flow of information, capital, ideas, people and products. Because of this potential, ICTs have made incredible leaps in their usefulness for many application areas and this makes everyone agrees to consider that they have the potential to revolutionize the disaster management area too.

The conference will include paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research and practices in technologies and systems for prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. The themes include (but not limited to) emergency communication, collaboration and coordination, decision enhancement systems, security and privacy, geo-information and space technologies, multi-sensor data collection, information dissemination and early warning and standardization efforts.

There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in practice-focused research.

Requests can be sent to:

E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com

Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26

5th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues

December 8-12, 2013 Sitges, Spain

Join us at the 5th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, reviewing the very latest on the mechanics of biological, natural and biologically inspired materials, and those materials used to replace them in the human body.

The conference provides an excellent forum for the discussion of the experimental, computational and theoretical studies of deformation and fracture behavior in biological, natural and replacement materials, and the role mechanical properties play in physiological and disease conditions. A core theme will be how lessons learnt in the study of engineering materials can be made relevant to the study of biomaterials, and how this can help us to develop models for biological processes, new methods for diagnosing and treating diseases, and the design of novel materials.

This conference focuses on all scales, integrating microscopic to macroscopic levels and includes work at the nanoscale such as the mechanics of molecules such as protein and DNA, used to find solutions to critical questions at the interface of engineering and medicine.

Conference Chair
Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Topic List

Hard tissues and materials (e.g. bone, teeth, mineralized biomaterials such as armors)

Soft tissues and materials (e.g. cartilage, tendon, silk, elastin, organs)

Natural, biologically inspired and biomimetic materials (including biomimicking materials)

Metals and ceramics as biomaterials

Mechanobiology (development, physiology and disease)

Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering

Multiscale modelling and simulation of tissue mechanical properties (e.g. ab initio approaches, molecular dynamics, coarse-graining, finite element modeling, fluid-structure interactions)

Multiscale experimental characterization of tissue mechanical properties (e.g. AFM, TEM, nanoindentation, optical tweezers, x-ray diffraction, in situ methods)

Hierarchical polymer materials and composites (e.g. dental ceramics and fibre-reinforced composites)

Self-assembly of biological and biomaterials (e.g. peptides, DNA, polymers, nanoparticles, hierarchical structures)

Tribology, friction and wear as well as fatigue

Materials failure in physiologically extreme conditions and disease (e.g. infectious disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease)

GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on: Advancing Neural Engineering Through Big Data

GlobalSIP 2013

1st IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing

December 3-5, 2013 Austin, Texas

Symposium Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The past two decades have seen an explosion in Neural Engineering research dedicated to interfacing the nervous system to the external world. Research in this area has been motivated by the promise of treatments for elusive medical conditions ranging from blindness to chronic pain to spinal cord injury, and has been supported by a sustained campaign from a spectrum of federal funding agencies. Overall progress in the field has been limited by the lack of large, comprehensive data resources. The purpose of this symposium is to focus the attention of the research community on a progression of neural engineering research questions and to generate and curate massive data sets to be used in addressing those questions. The existence of massive common data corpora has proven to substantially accelerate research progress. In this symposium, we will explore the community needs for such massive data and discuss models for the funding, development and distribution of these resources.

International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013)

August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing are synergistic disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of biomedical research and development through the design of intelligent systems to solve engineering practical problems as well as translational science problems. Research and development in these areas impact science and technology, and synergies among these disciplines provide enormous potential. The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) aims to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas and promotion of interdisciplinary collaborations. Keeping these objectives in mind, ICIBM solicits original contributions in the following non-exclusive lists of areas.

Bioinformatics

Functional genomics, personalized medicine, genetics and genomics, multi-dimensional data integration, next generation sequencing analysis (including algorithms, tools and data analysis), microarray based data analysis, biomedical data analysis, bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining, identification and classification of genes, sequence search and alignment, protein structure prediction and molecular simulation, molecular evolution and phylogeny, proteomics, drug discovery, drug design, bioinformatics engineering, bio-data visualization, algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-datasets, biomarker discovery, bio-imaging, signaling and computation.

Systems Biology

Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, regulatory networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multi-cellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation.

Intelligent Computing

Machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, natural langue processing, literature mining, semantic and ontology driven biological data analysis, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization, feature selection/extraction, ensemble methods, manifold learning theory, artificial life and artificial immune systems, technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life. 

For general questions/inquiries, please email us at icibm.list@gmail.com.

5th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2013)

September 20-22, 2013 Vilamoura - Algarve, Portugal

ECTA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

Scope

Considered a subfield of computational intelligence focused on combinatorial optimisation problems, evolutionary computation is associated with systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation, i.e. computational techniques which are based to some degree on the evolution of biological life in the natural world. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, the evolution strategy, evolutionary programming, swarm intelligence and artificial life.

This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of evolvable systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields. ECTA welcomes both theoretical research and practical applications.

The conference also aims to foster hybrid approaches within evolutionary computation and also involving fuzzy computation and neural computation.

Conference Topics

Genetic Algorithms

Machine Learning

Cognitive Systems

Artificial Life

Representation techniques

Software engineering issues; Metamodelling

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization

Game Theory and applications

Evolution strategies

Evolutionary robotics and intelligent agents

Society and cultural aspects of evolution

Concurrent co-operation

Co-evolution and collective behavior

Biocomputing and complex adaptive systems

Bio-inspired hardware and networks

Swarm/collective intelligence

Evolutionary art and design

Hybrid Systems

Contacts

ECTA Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8638
e-mail: ecta.secretariat@insticc.org

2nd Joint World Congress of the International Society for Posture & Gait Research (ISPGR) and Gait & Mental Function

June 22 – 26, 2013 Akita, Japan

6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

5-8 November 2013 San Diego, California

Neural engineering is an emerging core discipline, which coalesces neuroscience with engineering. Please join us at:

The 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, which will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina – CA from 5-8 November 2013, just before The Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Members of both the Neuroscience and Engineering Communities are encouraged to attend this highly multidisciplinary meeting. The conference will highlight the emerging engineering innovations in the restoration and enhancement of impaired sensory, motor, and cognitive functions, novel engineering for deepening knowledge of brain function, and advanced design and use of neurotechnologies.

Neural engineering draws expertise from computational neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, electrical engineering, materials engineering, and cell and molecular neuroscience. Through innovations in neurotechnology the community seeks to synergize scientists, engineers, and clinicians toward improved medical therapies.

2013 Annual Conference on Civil Engineering and Engineering

15-17 June, 2013 Beijing, China

The 2013 Annual Conference on Civil Engineering and Engineering will be held in Beijing, China during 15-17 June, 2013. The aim objective of ACCEE 2013 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Networking and Digital Society. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

Contact Us

Inquires referred to Registration & Submission, Accommodation and Transportation and so on, please email to the secretariat at accee@accee.org
Organized by

Asia-Pacific Education & Research Association
12-1F., No.129, Sec.1, Fuxing S. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
Tel:+886 2 2740 5770
Fax:+886 2 2752 2642

4th Colombian Meeting and International Conference on Air Quality and Public Health

August 13-16, 2013, Bogota, Colombia

The fourth version of the Colombian Meeting and International Conference on Air Quality and Public Health (CASAP 2013) will be held in the city of Bogota. This fourth edition of the event will be an excellent opportunity to learn the state of the art with regard to the study and control of air pollution, modeling and implementation of public policies, particularly through plenary sessions which will be conducted by national and international experts who are highly respected and recognized. Additionally, there will be several breakout sessions where representatives from universities, research centers, government agencies and consulting firms will show the latest developments on these issues worldwide.