CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (BIOKDD'11) Held in parallel with 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’11) www.dexa.org Toulouse, France August 29 - September 2, 2011 With the development of Molecular Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological data. For example, the Human Genome Project provided the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era: after having focused so many efforts on the accumulation of data, we have now to focus as much effort, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of data is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to use computer tools and develop new in silico high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns of biological sequences and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) are a response to these new trends. Topics of BIOKDD'11 workshop include, but not limited to: Data Preprocessing: Biological Data Storage, Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …) Data Mining: Biological Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological data clustering/biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Data Mining Data Postprocessing: Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules via numerical indicators, e.g. measurements of interest, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE format <www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html>. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of DEXA’11 Workshops with IEEE CSP. One of the authors of an accepted paper must register to DEXA’11 conference and present the paper at BIOKDD’11 workshop. For paper registration and electronic submission see <http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2011/>, starting from January 2011. Extended versions of selected accepted papers will be published as chapters in a book, entitled "Handbook of Biological Knowledge Discovery", which will be published by Wiley, USA <www.wiley.com>. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full Papers: March 30, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2011 Camera-ready Copies: May 23, 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mourad Elloumi, UTIC, University of Tunis, Tunisia (PC Chair) El Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Mohammed Sohel Rahman, King's College, London, UK Raffaele Giancarlo, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Giorgio Valentini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Alexandros Stamatakis, Technische Universität München, Germany Mohamed Elati, University of Evry Val-d'Essonne, France Fawzi Mhamdi, UTIC, University of Tunis, Tunisia Matteo Comin, University of Padova, Italy Pierre Peterlongo, INRIA, France Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Carlo Cattani, University of Salerno, Italy Giulia Menconi, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica, Roma, Italy Ali Al Mazari, Al Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Luca Bortolussi, Università di Trieste, Italy Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK Rosalba Giugno, University of Catania, Italy Oleg Okun, The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus Xiangchao Gan, University of Oxford, UK Florin Leon, Technical University of Iaşi, Romania Mihai Horia Zaharia, Technical University of Iaşi, Romania *** To remove your name from this list send an email to: <[log in to unmask]>, and put the following into the body of the message: SIGNOFF BIOINFORMATICS