====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE WCB09 Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/Events/WCB09/ September 20th, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal associated to CP 2009 ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. To pick out only a few examples, Bioinformatics tackles problems related to: Recognition, analysis, and organization of DNA sequences. For instance, haplotype/pedigree inference, motif localization, constrained and structural alignments, biological systems simulations (for metabolic or regulatory networks), and structure prediction of proteins and RNA. All these problems can be naturally formalized using constraint programming. The main aim of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, to share recent results in this area. This includes new ideas and/or systems, relying on constraints, but also on other AI techniques like linear programming, mixed Integer Linear Programming, local search, and possibly combinations thereof. On the other hand, to present new challenging problems that were recently formalized and are well-suited for constraint-based methods. Here, we welcome problem proposals that motivate further developments in the field, even if they are still far from having effective solutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Submission Deadline: ** July 3rd, 2009 ** Notification to Authors: July 24th, 2009 Camera-ready copy due: August 14th, 2009 Workshop: September 20th, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rolf Backofen, Freiburg Univ., Germany Pedro Barahona, Univ. Nova de Lisbona, Portugal Alexander Bockmayr, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany Mats Carlsson SICS, Uppsala Sweden Alessandro Dal Palu' (co-chair), Parma Univ., Italy Agostino Dovier, Udine Univ., Italy Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Ines Lynce, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Neil Moore, Univ. of St Andrews, UK Enrico Pontelli, NMSU, USA Sebastian Will (co-chair), Freiburg Univ., Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We appreciate submissions of * Extended Abstracts of new results * Abstracts of ongoing work * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop) * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results * Well-motivated proposals of bioinformatics problems for constraint based methods in any topic concerning bioinformatics and constraints and close techniques. Submission style is the standard llncs style. The page limit for submissions is 8 pages. Please send the pdf or ps to wcb09@informatik.uni-freiburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the workshop and present the topic. Workshop participants must pay the workshop fee according to CP rules.