New conference dates: November 8-10, 2000

Please note the change in the conference dates. In the latest communication of the IEEE Computer Society with the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the BIBE Steeering Committee was advised to change the days of the BIBE 2000 Symposium from Nov. 5-8, 2000 to Nov. 8-10, 2000, in order for the BIBE 2000 Symposium to take place in conjuction with the 2000 International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2000) which will be held at the same hotel. This joint activities will offer to the participants of both conferences a more attractive and fruitful package in the areas of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering.


Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society
and
IEEE Biomedical Engineering Society


In Cooperation with :

AIIS Inc., IEEE Virtual Intelligence Task Force,
ICIIS, ICTAI, NIH, NCI, TIGR

Schedule and Final Program


Scope of the BIBE Symposium

The Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering are very important and very active research areas that offer promising solutions to complex medical and biological problems as well as practical applications to other professions in industry and government. These areas have rapidly increasing impact on our society (important health issues) and commercial applications (drugs development, prosthetics, etc). In response to this demand, a number of related periodicals have been published worldwide. Not one of these, however, deals exclusively with the biomedical engineering and bio-computational evolution and biological analysis of living systems and the interaction between artificial and living systems. Both Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering advance fundamental concepts, create knowledge from molecular to the organ and living organism levels, and develop innovative biologics, materials, processes, implants, devices, software-hardware tools and methods for prevention, detection, monitoring, signaling, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases; for patients rehabilitation; for improving health; for development of new bio-computing systems, genome research for developing of new drugs and the interpretation of complex biological processes.

The BIBE Symposium provides a unique opportunity to researchers, scientists and practitioners to shape knowledge and scientific achievements by bridging two very important research fields, Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, into an interactive and attractive forum.

A list of topics (but not limited) are presented bellow:

  • FUSING ARTIFICIAL DEVICES IN BIOLOGICAL AND LIVING SYSTEMS
  • NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
  • LEARNING IN ARTIFICIAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
  • PERCEPTION IN ARTIFICIAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
  • ENGINEERING MODELS IN BIOMEDICINE
  • BIOLOGICAL MODELS AND SYSTEMS
  • ROBOTICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
  • COMPUTING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
  • GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING
  • DNA AND GENOME DATABASES
  • BIO-INFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES
  • BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND SIGNALING
  • BODY'S AND CELLS BIOSIGNATURES
  • TISSUE ENGINEERING
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    Important Dates

    New paper submission deadline: May 31, 2000


    Item Date
     Paper Submission Deadline May 31, 2000 (was May 15, 2000)
     Notification of Acceptance July 20, 2000 (was June 30, 2000)
     Camera-Ready Papers August 20, 2000 (was August 15, 2000)
     Symposium November 8-10, 2000 (was November 5-8)


    Paper Submission


    Please, submit 5 copies of a full paper (up to 30 pages) by May 15, 2000 to either one of the program chairs below. No particual paper format is required during the review process. However, all accepted papers should be submitted in IEEE 2-column format (see Information for Authors) for publication in the proceedings of the conference. The maximum number of pages allowed for the camera-ready papers is 8 (4 for short papers).

    Program Chair:
    Nikolaos Bourbakis
    ECE Dept, BIBE Research Lab
    School of Engineering
    Binghamton University (SUNY)
    Binghamton, NY 13902
    Phone:(607) 777-2165 or (607) 771-4033
    Fax:(607) 777-4464
    Email:nbourbakis@stny.rr.com
    Program co-Chair:
    George Bebis
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Nevada
    Reno, NV 89557
    Phone:(775) 784-6463
    Fax:(775) 784-1877
    Email:bebis@cs.unr.edu



    Special Sessions


    Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the symposium. If you are interested in organizing an special session please follow the procedure outlined below:

    1. Submit a proposal (topic area) to either one of the program chairs.
    2. Upon approval, recruit authors for the session (2 hours, 4/5 papers).
    3. Review papers for appropriate topic/contents.
    4. Submit *package* of papers to one of the program chairs by May 30.
    5. Comments and official acceptance of the session will be made by the program chairs by June 30.

    Scheduled Special Sessions:

    Interoperability and Intelligent Cooperation in Genome Databases

    Publication of Papers

    This is a fully refereed symposium. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Sociery. The best papers will be published in special issues of IEEE Transactions on KDE (Bio-Informatics papers, approved) and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (Biomedical Engineering papers, pending).

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