Publication of both books:
Mid 2008!

To be published by Springer-Verlag in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"

Book Objectives and Mission

Computational Intelligence (CI) has been a tremendously active area of research for the past decade or so. There are many successful applications of CI in many subfields of biology, including bioinformatics, computational genomics, protein structure prediction, or neuronal systems modeling and analysis. However, there still are numerous open problems in biology that are in desperate need of advanced and efficient computational methodologies to deal with tremendous amounts of data that those problems are plagued by. Unfortunately, biology researchers are very often unaware of the abundance of computational techniques that they could put to use to help them analyze and understand the data underlying their research inquiries. On the other hand, computational intelligence practitioners are often unfamiliar with the particular problems that their new, state-of-the-art algorithms could be successfully applied for. The separation between the two worlds is partially caused by the use of "different languages" in these two spheres of science, but also by the relatively small number of publications devoted solely to the purpose of facilitating the exchange of new computational algorithms and methodologies on one hand, and the needs of the biology realm on the other.

The purpose of this book is to provide a medium for such an exchange of expertise and concerns. In order to achieve the goal, we will solicit contributions in form of book chapters from both computational intelligence as well as biology researchers. We will seek contributions from the CI community describing powerful new methodologies that could be, or currently are, utilized for biology-oriented applications. On the other hand, the book will also contain chapters devoted to open problems in biology that are in need of strong computational techniques, so the CI community can find a brand new and potentially intriguing spectrum of applications.

Each volume will comprise 12 to 14 chapters, 20 to 25 pages each.

Topics

Recommended Topics and Themes (list is not exhaustive):

Current or potential applications of Computational Intelligence in biology:

• Data mining and knowledge discovery
• Pattern recognition
• Information and data visualization
• Simulations and modeling
• Machine learning
• Artificial neural networks
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Fuzzy logic
• Rough sets
• Support vector machines
• Ant colony optimization
• Particle swarm optimization
• Multi-agent systems
• Hybrid systems
• Biologically-inspired systems
• Classification and clustering
• High performance computing
• Time series analysis and prediction

Open problems in biology:

• Bioinformatics
• Genomics
• Computational genomics
• Proteomics
• Protein structure prediction
• Gene expression array analysis
• DNA sequencing and mapping
• Gene function determination
• Modeling and simulation of gene regulation and metabolic pathways
• Metabolomics
• Neuronal modeling and analysis
• Molecular biology
• Computational molecular biology
• Molecular sequence analysis and alignment
• Systems biology
• Population dynamics
• Evolution
• Ecology
• Drug design and delivery

Submission Guidelines and Important Dates

Researchers and practitioners are kindly invited to send on or before April 1, 2007 a short email to , containing a preliminary title and a short abstract of their chapter. This will facilitate the planning of the review process. All chapter proposals will be peer reviewed. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 15, 2007 and will be sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters (20 to 25 pages) will be expected by June 30, 2007. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Even though there is no specified length for the abstracts, the proposals should adequately present the ideas to be included in the chapter. In practice, one to two pages long abstract should be sufficient.

Original artwork and a signed copyright release forms will be required for all accepted chapters.

Editors

About the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"

The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence – quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.

Instructions for Authors (Preparation of Manuscripts)

Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep production time short and ensure satisfactory appearance of the finished book. Detailed instructions for preparing the final page layout can be downloaded from the download instructions for authors (pdf, 475 Kb). We strongly encourage you to use LaTeX together with the corresponding Springer LaTeX-macro packages. If you have any questions regarding these guidelines, do not hesitate to contact us.

The manuscripts should be prepared using the publisher's templates and style files. It concerns the following files (click on the name to download the file):

author.tex: this is the basic TeX-file for preparing your chapter. It also includes guidelines on how to include references ; there are specific rules for monographs, edited volumes, journal papers, and theses.
figure.eps: this is a figure that is included in the author.tex-file.
referenc.tex: this is a references file.
svmult.cls: this is a style file.
svind.ist: this is a style file.

These files have to be copied in the same directory as the one you will prepare the manuscript in. Just to show how each chapter will look like, you can download the corresponding output file as well: author.pdf.

A subject index: At the end of the book we will include an "index page", containing hundreds of index words that appear throughout the book. This is genuinely helpful for the reader. since it allows them to easily find topics of their interest. Please indicate the words in your chapter that you wish to be indexed! You can do this by including the command "\index{YourWord}" throughout your chapter. An example is given in the author.tex file.

Contact Information

Tomasz G. Smolinski

Biology Department
Emory University
1510 Clifton Rd. NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Phone: +1-404-727-9381
Email:
Web site: http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Prinz/Tomasz