2nd International Workshop on
High Performance Computing Methods and Interdisciplinary Applications for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic (HPC4COVID-19)
DEADLINE EXTENDED: November 8, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS
The management of the COVID-19 pandemic presents several unprecedented challenges that regards a plurality of fields and that may benefit from advanced computing infrastructures and novel software pipelines, allowing the integration and exploitation of the increasing COVID-19 big data and enabling world-wide collaboration.
COVID-19 poses many challenges to several research and application fields: investigating the molecular basis of the disease, tracing of virus mutations, vaccines and drugs development, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, ICUs management, healthcare logistic, large scale testing of people (e.g. to find diseased people. that must be treated or quarantined and already healed people that may return to work), large scale tracing of people movements and contacts, to reduce the spread of the virus, infectious disease modelling, epidemiology, public health, effects of pandemic at emotional and behaviour level, impact of pandemic on remote working, etc.
Each one of these challenges may benefit from advanced computing infrastructures and novel software pipelines, including bioinformatics for basic research, computer simulation for epidemiology and disease modelling, big data integration, e.g. for connecting disease data with environmental and climate data, mobile applications, wearable sensors to trace people or to collect health data, telemedicine infrastructures to collect health data and to remotely assist mild-symptoms COVID-19 patients, data science and data analytics solutions for the statistical and data mining analysis of data at several levels, including mood and sentiment analysis of long-time quarantined people as well as care givers and healthcare personnel that are having a uncommon working load and stress.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together computer and life scientists as well as medical doctors and policy makers, to present high-performance computing methods and interdisciplinary applications fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and discussing emerging and future directions in the computer-based management of pandemics.
Interest to the BIBM community
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine are two key disciplines that are having a big role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic from basic research to interdisciplinary applications. The main motivation for the workshop is to represent the increasing role of HPC as well as of interdisciplinary applications for facing the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of bioinformatics and biomedicine research.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Computer-supported Public Health and COVID-19
Computer-supported Epidemiology and COVID-19
Computer-supported Virology and COVID-19
Electronic Health Records for COVID-19
Mathematical Modelling for COVID-19
Modelling and simulation of SARS-CoV-2 virus diffusion
Computing infrastructures for COVID-19 data collection, integration, sharing, and visualization
Distributed computing infrastructures for enabling COVID-19 collaborative research
Distributed computing methods for tracing and tracking COVID-19 patients and their contacts
Bioinformatics pipelines for SARS-CoV-2 virus data analysis (sequences, structures, interactions, infections mechanisms)
Bioinformatics pipelines for COVID-19 drugs and vaccines design
Data Science for COVID-19 clinical processes (diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, follow-up)
Telemedicine for remote support of COVID-19 patients (monitoring, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, tele-presence)
Telemedicine Infrastructures and Sensors for collecting Public Health citizens data
Data Science for Public Health decision making
Computing Infrastructures for collecting quarantined citizen emotion data
Sentiment Analysis software pipelines for mood and emotion analysis during COVID-19 pandemic
Data Science for relating COVID-19 data with environmental, pollution and climate data
Network-based analysis for epidemics
PROGRAM
The workshop will take place on December 9-12, 2021 (To Be Announced). The program is not available yet.
PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION
Please submit a full-length paper (up to 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the BIBM-2021 Workshops submission system:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2021/bibm21/scripts/ws_submit.php
You can download the format instruction here:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance.
IMPORTANT DATES
Oct. 10, 2021, Extended to Nov. 8 2021: Due date for full workshop papers submission
Nov. 18, 2021: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
Nov. 21, 2021: Camera-ready of accepted papers
Dec. 9-12, 2021: Workshops
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the following special issue of the Biotech (MDPI) Journal.
"Bioinformatics and High-Performance Computing Methods for Deciphering and Fighting COVID-19"
Special Issue submission deadline: January 31, 2022.
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biotech/special_issues/deciphering_Fighting_COVID
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro, Italy
Mauro Castelli, NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Riccardo Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Italo Francesco Zoppis, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Giuseppe, Agapito, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mario, Cannataro, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Barbara, Calabrese, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Mauro, Castelli, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Riccardo, Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Marianna Milano, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Rodrigo, Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Marzia Settino, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Italo, Zoppis, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Chiara, Zucco, University of Catanzaro, Italy