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   *                             AB2007                             *
   *      Second International Conference on Algebraic Biology      *
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   *                        July 2-4, 2007                          *
   *                Castle of Hagenberg, Austria                    *
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   *     http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2007/         *
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The Second International Conference on Algebraic Biology, AB'07, is an 
international forum to promote discussion and interaction between 
researchers who intend to apply symbolic computation - computer algebra 
and computational logic - to various issues in biology.

The conference covers all aspects of applications of algebraic and 
logic methods in biology, addressing

    * molecular sequence analysis
    * molecular structure analysis
    * molecular evolution
    * genomics
    * proteomics
    * gene regulation
    * gene expression
    * gene ontology
    * network Inference
    * mathematical modeling
    * model identification
    * system analysis and design
    * system verification
    * synthetic biological systems

and other problems in biology with symbolic methods including, but not 
restricted to:

    * polynomial methods
    * group theoretical methods
    * rewriting methods
    * automated reasoning methods
    * automata methods
    * formal language methods
    * combinatoric methods
    * symbolic-numeric algorithms (sequential, parallel, distributed, 
      grid processing)

SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted 
for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be at most 15 pages including 
references, prepared in LaTeX and formatted according to the Springer llncs 
style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Additional material 
intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version may 
be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and the accepted papers will appear 
in the proceedings before the Conference. Proceedings will be published by 
Springer Verlag.

DATES
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December 4, 2006: Deadline for registration of abstracts.
December 11, 2006: Deadline for submission of full papers.
March 5, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection.
April 2, 2007: Camera-ready paper submission.
July 2-4,2007: Conference.


INVITED SPEAKERS
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Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA)
Bud Mishra, New York University (USA)
Gheorghe Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (Romania)


CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd (Japan)
Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University (USA)
Katsuhisa Horimoto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)


PROGRAM CHAIRS AND PROCEEDINGS EDITORS
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Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. (Japan)
Katsuhisa Horimoto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)
Temur Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University (Japan)
Hirokazu Anai, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. (Japan), PC Co-Chair
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Vincenzo Capasso, Universita degli studi di Milano (Italy)
Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, Cambridge (UK)
Gautam Dasgupta, Columbia University (USA)
Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt (France)
Shinji Hara, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Sepp Hochreiter, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Hoon Hong, North Carolina State University (USA)
Katsuhisa Horimoto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), PC Co-Chair
Hans Irschik, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University (USA)
Veikko Keränen, Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Temur Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria), PC Co-Chair
James F. Lynch, Clarkson University (USA)
Manfred Minimair, Seton Hall University (USA)
Enno Ohlebusch, University of Ulm (Germany)
Stanly Steinberg, University of New Mexico (USA)
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
Carolyn L. Talcott, SRI International (USA)
Ashish Tiwari, SRI International (USA)
Jens Volkert, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria)
Dongming Wang, Beihang University (China) and UPMC-CNRS (France)
Kazuhiro Yokoyama, Rikkyo University (Japan)
Ruriko Yoshida, Duke University (USA)


WEB PAGE
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http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/conferences/ab2007/