About the workshop

We are organizing  a IEEE BIBM workshop that aims to bring together researchers, both from academy and industry, as well as practictioners and students to share ideas, results (even in first stage), about network science and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of bioinformatics, biomedicine & health informatics. 

We encourage submission of short and long papers as well as poster (2-page formats). We are planning to invite all the contribution to a special issue of a SCOPUS indexed journal.

Workshop Rationale

Network science is a successful paradigm for the study and understanding of complex systems, including biological systems. Pharmacology and drug discovery leverage the network biology to better understand the complex interactions between drugs, targets and disease for designing new molecule or identifying repurposed drugs. Most recently graph neural network expressed to be a potential game changer in deciphering the inherent complex interaction patterns in a complex network more precisely.

This workshop intends to highlight novel research in the area of network science and network medicine coupled with representation learning and its application to biology, medicine, and pharmacology. We try to focus on following broad areas but not limited to:

1. Network Representation Learning

2. Graph Convolution Neural Network

3. Network Embedding

4. Heterogeneous network integration

5. Network Alignment

6. Disease module detection

7. Network Drug Discovery and Repurposing

Conference Website

https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2024/  

Important Dates

Oct. 10, 2024: Due date for full workshop papers submission 

Nov. 5, 2024: Notification of paper acceptance to authors 

Nov. 21, 2024: Camera-ready of accepted papers

Dec. 3-6, 2024: Workshops

Attendance: in person or virtual

Proceedings

All workshop accepted papers and posters will appear in the IEEE Conference Proceedings (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1001586/all-proceedings )

A special issue on a Scopus Indexed Journal is planned, negotiations are in progress, journal name(s) will be communicated in an upcoming announcement.

How to submit

Please submit your contributions at the following link: https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2024/  

Workshop Organizers

Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University of Magna racia, Catanzaro, Italy, email: hguzzi@unicz.it  

Paolo Tieri, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy

Manuela Petti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Paola Stolfi, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy

Program Committee

TBA