WCB07 Call for Papers

[Agostino Dovier]

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****                     CALL FOR PAPERS
****                   WCB08 - Workshop on
****          Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics
****                      May 22th, 2008
****              PARIS associated to CPAIOR 2008
****           http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dovier/WCB08
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Bioinformatics is a challenging and fast growing area of
research, which is of utmost importance for our understanding
of life. Major contributions to this discipline can have
thousands of positive effects in medicine, agriculture, or industry.

The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand,
to share recent results in this area (new ideas and/or systems,
relying on constraints, but also on linear programming, Mixed
Integer Linear Programming, Local Search, and any other AI techniques,
possibly combining some of them). On the other hand, to present new
challenging problems recently formalized but still far from admitting
an acceptable solutions.

See from the workshop web page, the web pages/proceedings
of the previous editions and the link to the forthcoming special issue
of the Constraints Journal on the same topics.

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Submitted papers can be

    * Extended Abstracts of new results or
    * Abstract of ongoing works
    * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop)
    * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results

in any topic concerning bioinformatics and constraints and close techniques.
Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages.
Please send the pdf or ps via email to the three co-chairs (email
on the web page of the workshop).

Submission Deadline:      March 15, 2008
Notification to Authors:  April 15, 2008
Camera-ready due:         April 30, 2008 (strict!)
Workshop:                 May 22, 2008.

Workshop participation of at least one author is mandatory.
Participation to CPAIOR is strongly encouraged.

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Program Committe

Rolf Backofen Freiburg Univ., Germany (co-chair)
Pedro Barahona Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Alexander Bockmayr Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany
Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden
Alessandro Dal Palù Univ. of Parma, Italy
Simon De Givry INRA, Toulouse, France
Maria Garcia de la Banda Monash Univ., Australia
David Gilbert Glasgow Univ., UK
Agostino Dovier Udine Univ., Italy (co-chair)
Francois Fages INRIA Rocquencourt, France (co-chair)
Inês Lynce INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Enrico Pontelli NMSU (USA)
Peter Stuckey Univ. of Melbourne
Sebastian Will Freiburg Univ., Germany

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Agostino Dovier
Dip. di Matematica e Informatica
Univ. of Udine, Italy
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dovier
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