International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB)
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Genre	single track scientific conference
Begins	TBD, September 2019
Ends	TBD, September 2019
Frequency	annually
Location(s)	various
Years active	14
Inaugurated	CIBB 2004, Perugia, Italy
Previous event	CIBB 2018, Almada, Portugal
Next event	CIBB 2019, Bergamo, Italy
Organised by	International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and yearly local organizing committees
Website	eventos.fct.unl.pt/cibb2018

The International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) is a preeminent yearly scientific conference focused on machine learning and computational intelligence applied to bioinformatics and biostatistics.

Organization and history

The CIBB conferences are typically organized by members of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) and International Neural Network Society (INNS), among others. Their main themes are machine learning, data mining and computational intelligence algorithms applied to biological and biostatistical problems.

The CIBB conference originally started by the Italian professors Francesco Masulli (University of Genoa), Antonina Starita (University of Pisa), and Roberto Tagliaferri (University of Salerno) as a special session within other international conferences held in Italy: the 14^th Italian Workshop on neural networks (WIRN 2004), the 6^th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2005), the 7^th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (FLINS 2006), and the 7^th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2007). Because of the broad participation of researchers to the CIBB special session at WILF 2007, which included 26 papers, the CIBB steering committee decided to turn CIBB into an autonomous conference starting with the 2008 edition in Vietri sul Mare (Italy).^[1]

During their first editions, the CIBB conferences were organized and attended mainly by Italian researchers at various academic locations throughout Italy (Genoa, Palermo, Gargnano). As international audience and importance of the conference grew up, following conference editions moved outside Italy. The 2012 CIBB conference was held in Houston, Texas, in the United States; the 2013 CIBB meeting took place in Nice, in the Côte d'Azur of Southern France; and the 2014 edition occurred at the University of Cambridge, in Great Britain. After these three editions, the 12^th CIBB conference came back to Southern Italy and was organized in Naples in September 2015.^[2]

The 13^th CIBB conference was organized at University of Stirling, in Scotland (United Kingdom) in the first days September 2016,^[3] while the following CIBB conference was held at University of Cagliari, in Sardinia (Italy) in September 2017.^[4]

The CIBB 2018 edition happened at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Almada, Portugal, in September 2018^[5], and the CIBB 2019 will take place at Università di Bergamo, in Bergamo, Italy.

The CIBB scientific conferences usually attract scientists from all over the world.

CIBB 2014 conference in Cambridge, Great Britain.

Format

The conference is a single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. It usually lasts three days in September. The conference traditionally includes some special sessions about the application of computational intelligence to specific aspects of biology (for example, the "Special session on machine learning in health informatics and biological systems" at CIBB 2018^[6]), and occasionally some tutorials.

In the 2011 conference edition in Gargnano, the scientific committee assigned a young researcher best paper award.^[7][8]

Publications

The proceedings for CIBB conferences are usually published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, whereas a selection of the best papers undergo extended publication in international peer-reviewed journals such as BMC Bioinformatics.

Conference editions

Future:

• CIBB 2019, Bergamo, Italy – 16^th edition.

Past:

• CIBB 2018, September 6-8, Almada, Portugal – 15^th edition.^[9]
• CIBB 2017, September 7-9 Cagliari, Italy – 14^th edition.^[10]
• CIBB 2016, September 1-3, Stirling, Great Britain – 13^th edition.^[11]
• CIBB 2015, September 10-12, Naples, Italy – 12^th edition.^[12]
• CIBB 2014, June 26-28, Cambridge, Great Britain – 11^th edition.^[13]
• CIBB 2013, June 20-22, Nice, France – 10^th edition.^[14]
• CIBB 2012, July 12-14, Houston, Texas, USA – 9^th edition.^[15]
• CIBB 2011, June 30-July 2, Gargnano, Italy – 8^th edition.^[16]
• CIBB 2010, September 16-18, Palermo, Italy – 7^th edition.^[17]
• CIBB 2009, October 15-17, Genoa, Italy – 6^th edition.^[18]
• CIBB 2008, October 3-4, Vietri sul Mare, Italy – 5^th edition.^[19]
• CIBB 2007, July 7-10, Portofino, Italy – 4^th edition (special session of WILF 2007).^[20]
• CIBB 2006, August 30, Genoa, Italy – 3^rd edition (special session of FLINS 2006).^[21]
• CIBB 2005, September 15-17, Crema, Italy – 2^nd edition (special session of WILF 2005).^[22]
• CIBB 2004, September 14-15, Perugia, Italy – 1^st edition (special session of WIRN 2004).^[23]

See also

• Computational intelligence
• Bioinformatics
• Biostatistics
• Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
• BMC Bioinformatics

References

External links

Conference website and call for papers:

• CIBB 2018 official website
• CIBB conference series on WikiCfp.com

Proceedings books:

• CIBB 2005 proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
• CIBB 2006 proceedings within the FLINS 2006 proceedings book
• CIBB 2007 proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics
• Books of the published CIBB proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics from 2008 to 2016

Journal supplements on BMC Bioinformatics:

• BMC Bioinformatics - CIBB 2010 Supplement: new trends from the CIBB conference series
• BMC Bioinformatics - CIBB 2013 Supplement: selected articles from the 10th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
• BMC Bioinformatics - CIBB 2014 Supplement: Selected articles from the 11th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
• BMC Bioinformatics CIBB 2015 & CIBB 2016 Supplement - 12th and 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics