KES'2002
          Sixth International Conference on
           Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information
            & Engineering Systems
              16, 17 & 18 September 2002
           Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy

    Special Session: Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
          http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/kes02.html

               Call for papers

This special session aims at presenting and discussing
state-of-the-art algorithms and methodologies in computational
molecular biology where machine learning plays a key role. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to) applications of machine
learning to:
  o Protein folding and protein structure prediction
  o Gene expression data and DNA micro-arrays
  o Protein-protein interaction
  o Finding signals and motifs in DNA sequences
  o Inference of genetic networks
  o Analysis of gene structure and regulation
  o Phylogenetic analysis
  o QSAR and QSPR

Submissions
Papers should be submitted in electronic format (preferably in PDF,
but PostScript, or MS-Word are also acceptable formats) to
kes02@dsi.unifi.it, using the subject-line "KES02 Special Session
submission". Papers must be formatted as detailed in IOS Instructions
for the Preparation of a Camera-Ready Manuscript (see
http://www.bton.ac.uk/kes/kes2002/instruct.doc). LaTeX and Word
templates are available at
http://www.iospress.nl/site/navfr/authcofr.html. The maximum length of
papers is five pages (when prepared according to the IOS
instructions). Longer papers will be subject to an additional page
charge. Please note that final versions of accepted papers must be
submitted in hard copy.
All papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must pay the
registration fee. For more information about the general conference
please see http://www.bton.ac.uk/kes/kes2002/.
The session papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings
(IOS Press, Amsterdam, the Netherlands). Extended versions of selected
papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal
(International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering
Systems).

Important Dates
Submission deadline :    March 15, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2002
Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 15, 2002
Registration deadline: June 1, 2002

Session Chair
Paolo Frasconi
Dept. of Systems and Computer Science
University of Florence
Via di Santa Marta 3, I-50139 Firenze - Italy
Phone: +39 055 4796 362 Fax: +39 055 4796 363
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo