2018 IEEE International Work Conference on Bioinspired Intelligence (IWOBI)

The contents of the conference will be organized in three sessions: a regular session and two special track sessions.

1. REGULAR SESSION. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Optimization and metaheuristic
• Biomathematics and Biostatistics
• Numerical Methods and Differential equations modeling
• Pattern Recognition and Classification
• Machine learning and Computational Intelligence Techniques
• Robotics
• Signal Processing and Analysis
• Computer vision
• Intelligent Networks
• Bioinformatics
• Computational anatomy
• Natural sounds and Speech Recognition
• Models of biological learning
• Brain-machine interfaces
• Speech and handwriting recognition

2. SPECIAL TRACK ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR NATURAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Parallel Algorithms
• Parallel Programming Techniques
• Large Scale Distributed Systems
• High Performance Applications and Tools
• Multicore Architectures and Accelerators
• Grid and Cloud Computing, and Federations
• HPC Infrastructure and Datacenters
• Scientific and Industrial Computing
• Big data, Data Management and Visualization

3. SPECIAL TRACK ON BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Dynamic models of metabolic, signaling and gene expression networks, Flux Balance Analysis
• Improvements in genome assembly
• Biological network reconstruction and analysis
• Biomarker discovery and Disease classification
• Next-generation sequencing, copy number and gene expression analysis, Proteomics, Pharmacogenomics, epigenomics & other omics, Functional genomics
• Molecular evolution and phylogeny
• Protein folding and Protein docking
• Translational bioinformatics and Immunoinformatics
• Microbiomes applied to the field of conservation biology, disease and health.
• Metagenomics of unusual environments
• Applications of transcriptomics to study genome evolution and adaptation