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Special Session on Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and
Bioengineering (OMBB)</font></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font
style="font-size: 14px; " face="Arial">2014 IEEE Symposium
Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014)</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font
style="font-size: 14px; " face="Arial">December 9-12, 2014,
Orlando, Florida, USA</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font
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June 2014</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Aim and Scope</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BB) are
interdisciplinary scientific fields involving many branches of
computer science, engineering, mathematics, and statistics.
Bioinformatics is concerned with the development and application
of computational methods for the modelling, retrieving and
analysis of biological data, whilst Bioengineering is the
application of engineering techniques to biology so as to create
usable and economically viable products.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Bioinformatics and Bioengineering are relatively
new fields in which challenges and issues can often be
formulated as optimization problems subject to multiple
conflicting objectives. Such multiobjective optimization
problems span from traditional problems, such as the
optimization of biochemical processes, protein structure
alignment and prediction, to more modern problems, such as
directed evolution, drug design, experimental design, and
optimization of manufacturing </font><span style="font-size:
14px; font-family: Arial; ">processes, material and equipment.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">The main aim of this special session, which is
organized within the SSCI-MCDM'14 Symposium, is to bring
together both experts and new-comers working on Optimization
Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (OMBB) to discuss
new and exciting issues in this area.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Topics of Interest</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">We encourage submission of papers describing new
concepts, strategies and challenges in the area of
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BB). In addition, we are
interested in application papers discussing the power and
applicability of these novel methods to real-world problems in
BB. You are invited to submit papers that are unpublished
original work for this special session at SSCI-MCDM'14. </font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">The topics are, but not limited to, the following</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Optimization methods for BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Novel optimization problems in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Emerging non-standard problem challenges in BB
problems (e.g. missing objective values, resourcing issues,
dynamic changes, many objectives, large-scale, mixed-typed
variables, etc.)</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Closed-loop optimization in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Interactive multiobjective optimization in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Predictive fitness landscape design for BB
problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Integrating user preferences into multiobjective
optimization of BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Handling practicalities in BB problems, such as
uncertainty, noise, constraints, fixed budget of evaluations,
high computational costs, etc.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Robustness in the optimization of BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Visualization techniques for complex BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">* Adaptation, learning, and anticipation in BB
problems</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">We welcome original contributions describing
ongoing projects or completed work.</font></div>
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face="Arial">The instructions for authors, and LaTeX and Word
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Paper Submissions due: 15 June 2014</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Notification of Acceptance: 5 September 2014</font></div>
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face="Arial">Camera-Ready Papers due: 5 October 2014</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Richard Allmendinger, University College London, UK</font></div>
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face="Arial">Anna Lavygina, Imperial College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University of
Magdeburg, Germany</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Allmendinger Richard, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Ashlock Daniel, University of Guelph, Canada</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Blum Christian, University of the Basque Country,
Spain</font></div>
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face="Arial">Branke Jürgen, University of Warwick, UK</font></div>
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face="Arial">Chandra Arjun, University of Oslo, Norway</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Deb Kalyanmoy, Michigan State University, USA</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Emmerich Michael, Leiden University, Netherlands</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Farid Suzanne, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Handl Julia, University of Manchester, UK<br>
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14px; " face="Arial"> Jürgen,</font> Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany</font><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Knowles Joshua, University of Manchester, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Langdon Bill, University College London, UK</font></div>
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face="Arial">Lavygina Anna, Imperial College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Li Xiaodong, RMIT University, Australia</font></div>
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face="Arial">Lozano Jose, University of the Basque Country
UPV/EHU, Spain</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Mendes Pedro, University of Manchester, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Mostaghim Sanaz,Otto von Guericke University of
Magdeburg, Germany</font></div>
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face="Arial">Papageorgiou Lazaros, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Rombo Simona, University of Palermo, Italy</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font style="font-size: 14px; "
face="Arial">Shukla Pradyumn Kumar, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany</font></div>
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<font style="font-size: 14px; " face="Arial">For further information
please contact Richard Allmendinger (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk">r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk</a>)</font>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font color="#888a85">Richard Allmendinger
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering,
Dept. of Biochemical Engineering,
University College London,
Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7679 7745
E.mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk">r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk</a>
Homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucberal/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucberal/</a>
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