BIOCOMP'12: Monday, July 16, 2012 Schedule
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6:30am - 5:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)
08:30 - 08:45am: Congress Opening Remarks - July 16, Monday:
Professor Hamid R. Arabnia (Chair, Steering Committee & Coordinator)
University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
(LOCATION: Monte Carlo Pavilion)
08:50 - 09:45am: Keynote Lecture 1 - July 16, Monday:
Teaching Software Engineering for Software as a Service using Massive
Open Online Courses
Professor David A. Patterson
University of California at Berkeley, California, USA
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Member, National of Academy of Sciences
Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
Shared (with John Hennessy) the IEEE John von Neumann Medal
(LOCATION: Monte Carlo Pavilion)
09:55 - 10:50am: Keynote Lecture 2 - July 16, Monday:
Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence
Professor Haym Hirsh
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Former Director (2006-2010) of Division of Information and Intelligent
Systems, National Science Foundation, USA + Visiting Scholar (2010-2011)
at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, USA. Prof. Hirsh received
his PhD in 1989 from Stanford University.
(LOCATION: Monte Carlo Pavilion)
11:00 - 11:55am: Keynote Lecture 3 - July 16, Monday:
ECL and Distributed Machine Learning with the HPCC Systems Platform
Dr. Flavio Villanustre
Vice-President of Technology Architecture and Product, HPCC Systems
(Past positions and professions: Director of Infrastructure at
LexisNexis; and also a neurosurgeon.)
(LOCATION: Monte Carlo Pavilion)
12:00 - 01:00pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)
SESSION 1-BIOCOMP: COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INFORMATION PROTECTION, STATISTICAL
METHODS, MODELLING, SIMULATION & OPTIMIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Co-Chairs: Dr. Jack K. Horner, JKH Consulting, LLC, Los Alamos, NM, USA;
Dr. Dr. Tagelsir Mohmed Gasmelseid, King Faisal University,
Saudi Arabia.
July 16, 2012 (Monday); 01:00pm - 03:40pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 7)
01:00 - 01:20pm: An Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Environment for Dynamic
Biological Systems
Steven Phung, Rajdeep Singh, Jamie Lawson, Michael Hultner, Brian Peck,
Ross Henderson, Dennis Hsu, Desmond Lun, Vijayaraj Nagarajan,
Mariam Quinones, Darrell Hurt, Yentram Huyen, Mike Tartakovsky
Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA;
Lockheed Martin, Information Systems and Global Solutions, San Diego,
California, USA; Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational
Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
NIH Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Integrity Applications Incorporated,
Carlsbad, California, USA; Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA;
Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre and School of Mathematics
and Statistics, University of South Australia, Australia
01:20 - 01:40pm: Population Structure and Related Attribute-Weighting Schemes Under the
Assumption of Infectious Disease Scenarios
Iris Nelly Gomez-Lopez, Olivia Loza, Armin R. Mikler
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
01:40 - 02:00pm: Multiscale Discretization for Reaction Diffusion Systems
Fei Li and Yang Cao
Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA
02:00 - 02:20pm: Quantum Cellular Combinatorics - An Equilibrium or Non-Equilibrium Approach
Wen-Ran Zhang
Georgia Southern University, Georgia, USA
02:20 - 02:40pm: Software Tool for the Generation, Comparison, and Temporal Visualization
of EEG Features
Catherine Chesnutt, Mary Baker
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
02:40 - 03:00pm: Alternative Two Sample Tests in Bioinformatics
Xiaohui Zhong and Kevin Daimi
University of Detroit Mercy, Michigan, USA
03:00 - 03:20pm: Simulated Docking of Laninamivir with the 1918 Pandemic Strain
Influenza A/H1N1 Neuraminidase Active Site
Jack K. Horner
Independent Researcher, USA
03:20 - 03:40pm: Cryptography and Information Protection in the Living World
Naya Nagy and Marius Nagy and Paul Hodor
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia;
Booz Allen Hamilton, Rockville, Maryland, USA
03:40 - 04:00pm: Comparison of Statistical Tools for Microarray Data
O. Kaissi, A. Moussa, B. Vannier and A. Ghacham
LTI Laboratory, ENSA Tangier Morocco;
IPBV, Poitiers University, France
04:00 - 05:20pm: During this period, BIOCOMP attendees are encouraged to participate
in sessions belonging to DMIN'12, GCA'12, GEM'12, ICAI'12, IKE'12,
PDPTA'12, or SWWS'12. These sessions discuss topics that significantly
overlap the scope of BIOCOMP'12.
05:20 - 06:00pm: POSTER/DISCUSSION SESSION A-BIOCOMP
July 16, 2012 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Hallways of Ballrooms 1-5)
O. SVAw - A Web-based Application Tool for Automated Surrogate Variable
Analysis of Gene Expression Studies
Mehdi Pirooznia, Fayaz Seifuddin, Fernando S. Goes, Jeffrey T. Leek,
Peter P. Zandi
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
O. A Web-based Multi-Genome Synteny Viewer for Customized Data
Chi-Chen Chiu, Kashi V. Revanna, Daniel Munro, and Qunfeng Dong
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
O. Open-source Dental Laboratories Web Content Management Systems vs.
Commercial Web Content Management Systems
Hebah Mirza and Samir El-Masri
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
O. There will be an additional 6 other posters.
06:00 - 08:00pm: PANEL DISCUSSION (provisional/planned) - TOPIC: TBA
Speaker/Moderator: Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP; Director HoIP Telecom, UK;
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET; Visiting Professor
University of Westminster, UK
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
06:00 - 09:00pm: TUTORIALS (but their topics ARE NOT within the scope of bioinformatics)
(Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)
09:10 - 11:30pm: CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER / SOCIAL
July 16 - Monday; 09:10 - 11:30pm
(LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)
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