(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ================================================================ Call for papers CMSB 2011 9th Int. Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology in cooperation with the ACM SIG Bioinformatics September 21-23 2011 Institut Henri Poincaré Paris, France http://contraintes.inria.fr/CMSB11/ ================================================================ CMSB 2011 solicits original research articles on the analysis of biological systems, networks, and data. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: original paradigms for modelling biological processes, original models together with their application domains; frameworks and techniques for verifying, validating, analyzing, and simulating biological systems; high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations (this year the HiBi workshop is merged into CMSB); inference from high-throughput experimental data; model integration from biological databases; model reduction methods; multi-scale models; control of biological systems. Contributions on modelling and analysis of relevant biological case studies are especially encouraged. Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Print-outs of the proceedings will be available at the conference. After the conference, a selection of papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to a special issue of a journal. INVITED TALKS Thomas Henzinger, IST, Austria Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester, UK Denis Thieffry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: April, 29 (complete paper pdf upload deadline: May, 6) Notification: June, 17 Camera-ready version: July, 1 PROGRAM COMMITTEE François Fages (Chair) - INRIA Paris–Rocquencourt, France Paolo Ballarini - INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France Hans van Beek - Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Gilles Bernot - University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Alexander Bockmayr - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Vincent Danos - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Pierpaolo Degano - University of Pisa, Italy Diego Di Bernardo - TIGEM, Naples, Italy Finn Drablos - NTNU, Norway Jerome Feret - INRIA - École Normale Supérieure, France Jasmin Fisher - Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom Stephen Gilmore - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Monika Heiner - Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany Jane Hillston - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Ina Koch - Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Marta Kwiatkowska - Trinity College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Christopher Langmead - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Oded Maler - CNRS Verimag, Grenoble, France Tommaso Mazza - CIBIO / University of Trento, Italy Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Bud Mishra - Courant Institute and NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA Satoru Miyano - University of Tokyo, Japan Ion Petre - Åbo Akademi University, Finland Corrado Priami - CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento, Italy Ovidiu Radulescu - Université de Montpellier 2, France Olivier Roux - IRCCyN / École Centrale de Nantes, France Carolyn Talcott - SRI International, Menlo Park CA, USA Denis Thieffry - École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany Verena Wolf - Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany BEST PAPER AWARDS The Program Committee of CMSB 2011 will give two best paper awards: one Best Student Paper Award and one NVIDIA Best Paper Award. The Best Student Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and receives an award of 500 US$ from the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM). For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author, the submission must be done in the student paper category and the student must present the paper at the conference. The NVIDIA Best Paper Award recipient is given public recognition and receives one high end Tesla GPU equipment of a value of 3,999 US$ donated by NVIDIA. Any paper on any topic of CMSB can qualify for this award provided the submission indicates the NVIDIA Best Paper Award category. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Grégory Batt, François Fages, Dragana Jovanovska, Ramon Martin, Thierry Martinez, Sylvain Soliman - INRIA Paris–Rocquencourt, France. Davide Prandi - Univ. Trento, Italy. VENUE The Institute Henri Poincaré (IHP) is in the Latin district in the center of Paris, near the Luxembourg garden. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES see http://contraintes.inria.fr/CMSB11