First International Conference on Formal Methods in Macro-Biology

Event Dates

Sep 22, 2014 - Sep 24, 2014

Location

Noumea - New Caledonia

Submission Deadline

May 05, 2014

FMMB 2014 – 1st INTL. CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN MACRO-BIOLOGY

Call for Papers

September 22-24, 2014

Noumea, New Caledonia

http://fmmb2014.sciencesconf.org/

* AIMS AND SCOPE

The purpose of FMMB is to bring together researchers, developers,

and students in theoretical computer science, applied mathematics,

mathematical and computational biology, interested in studying the

application of formal methods to the construction and analysis of

models describing biological processes at both micro and macro levels.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

– representation and analysis of biological systems in formal systems

such as:

o ordinary and partial differential equation systems,

o discrete event systems, infinite state systems,

o hybrid discrete-continuous systems, hybrid automata,

o cellular automata, multi-agent systems,

o stochastic processes, stochastic games,

o statistical physics models,

o process algebras, process calculi,

o rewriting systems, graph grammars,

– coupling models and data, inference of models from data,

– computability and complexity issues,

– modelling and analysis tools, case studies.

Application areas particularly solicited include:

– environmental biology, ecology, marine science,

– agriculture and forestry,

– developmental biology, population biology,

– epidemiology, medicine,

– systems biology, synthetic biology.

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Pieter Collins, Maastricht University, Netherlands,

Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia,

Radu Grosu, Vienna Technical University, Austria,

Steffen Klamt, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany,

Pietro Lio’, Cambridge University, UK,

Hélène Morlon, Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS, France.

* PC CO-CHAIRS

François Fages, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France,

Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy.

* LOCAL CHAIR

Teodor Knapik, University of New Caledonia.

* IMPORTANT DATES

Extended Submission deadline: May 5

Author notification: June 4

Camera-ready copy due: June 25

* SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Regular submissions of 12-20 pages or short submissions of 2 pages

in LNCS style should be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmmb2014 .

All accepted papers will be published in a book in the LNBI series of

Springer-Verlag. Authors of the most significant contributions will

be invited to submit extended versions for a journal special issue.