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<div align="center"><b><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Special Session on Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (OMBB)</font></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014)</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">December 9-12, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA</font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Submission deadline: 15 June 2014</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Submission site: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ssci2014/upload.php">http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ssci2014/upload.php</a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Aim and Scope</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Topics of Interest</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">The topics are, but not limited to, the following</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Optimization methods for BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Novel optimization problems in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* 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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Closed-loop optimization in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Interactive multiobjective optimization in BB</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Predictive fitness landscape design for BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Integrating user preferences into multiobjective optimization of BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* 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 face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Robustness in the optimization of BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Visualization techniques for complex BB problems</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">* Adaptation, learning, and anticipation in BB problems</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Submission Instructions</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">We welcome original contributions describing ongoing projects or completed work.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">The instructions for authors, and LaTeX and Word templates can be found at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/submission.html">http://www.ieee-ssci.org/submission.html</a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Key Dates</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Paper Submissions due: 15 June 2014</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Notification of Acceptance: 5 September 2014</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Camera-Ready Papers due: 5 October 2014</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Organizers</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Richard Allmendinger, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Anna Lavygina, Imperial College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Program Committee</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Allmendinger Richard, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Ashlock Daniel, University of Guelph, Canada</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Blum Christian, University of the Basque Country, Spain</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Branke Jürgen, University of Warwick, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Chandra Arjun, University of Oslo, Norway</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Deb Kalyanmoy, Michigan State University, USA</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Divina Federico, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Emmerich Michael, Leiden University, Netherlands</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Farid Suzanne, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Handl Julia, University of Manchester, UK<br>
</font><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Hubbuch</font><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; "><font face="Arial"> Jürgen,</font> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany</font><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Knowles Joshua, University of Manchester, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Langdon Bill, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Lavygina Anna, Imperial College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Li Xiaodong, RMIT University, Australia</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Lozano Jose, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Mendes Pedro, University of Manchester, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Mostaghim Sanaz,Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Papageorgiou Lazaros, University College London, UK</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Rombo Simona, University of Palermo, Italy</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Shukla Pradyumn Kumar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">Contact</font></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px; ">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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