[Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly disseminate this call to your colleagues and contacts] ***Special Session on Modeling and Simulation Methods for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine*** hosted by CIBB 2018 <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/>, 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics 6-8 September 2018, Caparica, Portugal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Systems Biology deals with the analysis of natural systems at different scales of complexity, requiring completely different modeling frameworks and computational methods. Given that Systems Biology approaches are becoming well established, the challenge is now to apply the developed techniques towards the definition of personalized models in order to identify individually tailored drugs and treatments; i.e. to realize the Personalized Medicine paradigm. The scope of this special session is to bring together researchers involved in the development of methods applied to the fields of Systems Biology and Systems Medicine. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: analysis of robustness of cellular networks 
 biomedical model parameterization cancer progression models clinical image analysis emergent properties in complex biological systems 
 flux balance analysis 
 metabolic engineering 
 metabolic pathway analysis 
 model verification and refinement methods 
 models of neural activity multi­scale modelling and simulation of biological systems 
 parameter estimation methods personalized models reverse engineering of reaction networks 
 software tools for systems biology 
 spatio­temporal modelling and simulation of biological systems IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2018 24 June 2018 Acceptance notification: 9 July 2018 19 July 2018 Author registration due: 20 July 2018 25 July 2018 Camera ready due: 29 July 2018 Conference: 6-8 September 2018 PROCEEDINGS Pdf versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present their paper at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference monograph. We plan to invite all papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI). Continuing the tradition of CIBB, we are also planning to invite the best papers, as an alternative to the publication on LNBI, to a special issue of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics, as in the latest editions). PAPER SUBMISSION Instructions for submission can be found here <http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018/pages/call-papers> SESSION CHAIRS Chiara Damiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marco S. Nobile, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alex Graudenzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Marzia Di Filippo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dario Pescini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy CONTACT Chiara Damiani, PhD Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milan-Bicocca mail: chiara.damiani@unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> phone: +39 02 64487918 Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani@unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca Building U14 - Room 1002 - Viale Sarca 336I-20126 - Milan (MI) - phone: +39 02 64487918 mail: chiara.damiani@unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>