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ERCIM News No. 60, January 2005 - Contents
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KEYNOTE |
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Biomedical Informatics: The Opportunity and Challenge for Multidisciplinary Research
by Rosalie Zobel, Director of Directorate C: Miniaturisation, Embedded Systems, Societal Applications, Information Society Directorate-General, European Commission |
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JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS |
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Keith Jeffery appointed new ERCIM President ‘ERCIM Needs Closer Cooperation’ |
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Christof Teuscher Winner of the Cor Baayen Award 2004 |
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ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution
by Tom Mens, Institut d'Informatique, Université de Mons-Hainaut/FNRS/FWO |
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Beyond the Horizon - A New European Action coordinated by ERCIM
by Grigoris Antoniou, ICS-FORTH
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Strategic IST-FET/NSF Workshop 'Engineering Software-Intensive Systems'
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ERCIM assesses the Future of ICT |
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NEWS FROM W3C |
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W3C10 Program Looked Back, Looked Forward |
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Future Web Work at W3C |
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W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences |
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Consensus among Mobile and Web Technology Leaders at W3C Mobile Web Initiative Workshop |
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W3C Adds FAQ and Tutorial |
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Latest W3C Recommendations |
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SPECIAL THEME: Biomedical Informatics |
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Introduction: |
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Biomedical Informatics in Support of Individualized Medicine
by Stelios Orphanoudakis, Dimitris Kafetzopoulos and Manolis Tsiknakis, FORTH
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ERCIM Working Group on Biomedical Informatics
by Manolis Tsiknakis and Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, FORTH |
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European and National R&D Projects: |
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INFOBIOMED: A Joint European Effort to Support the Establishment of Biomedical Informatics
by Carlos Díaz, NFOBIOMED Project Manager, IMIM, Spain |
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The BIOPATTERN Network of Excellence
by Emmanuel Ifeachor, Jo Thompson-Byrne and Michalis Zervakis
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The INFOGENMED Project: A Biomedical Informatics Approach to Integrate Heterogeneous Biological and Clinical Information
by Ankica Babic, Victor Maojo, Fernando Martín-Sanchez, Miguel Santos and Antonio Sousa
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SemanticMining - A Network of Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Informatics
by Hans Åhlfeldt |
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Major New Biotech Initiative to Strengthen Sweden's Uppsala Region
by Rhiannon Sanders
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Integration and Analysis of Biomedical Data: |
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CLEF: Joining up Healthcare and Biomedical Research
by Aniko Zagon, Adel Taweel and Alan Rector
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myGrid: Middleware for In Silico Experiments in Biology
by Carole Goble
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Towards an Integrative and Context-Sensitive Approach to In Silico Disease Modelling
by Matej Oresic, Peddinti V. Gopalacharyulu, Erno Lindfors, Catherine Bounsaythip, Ilkka Karanta, Mikko Hiirsalmi, Lauri Seitsonen and Paula Silvonen
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The Prognochip Project: Transcripromics and Biomedical Informatics for the Classification and Prognosis of Breast Cancer
by Dimitris Kafetzopoulos
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Processing Multimedia Biomedical Information for Disease Evolution Monitoring
by Sara Colantonio, Maria Grazia Di Bono, Gabriele Pieri and Ovidio Salvetti
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Privacy Concerns in Biomedical Informatics
by Brecht Claerhout |
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Data Mining and Visualization of Biomedical Data: |
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GenoLink: Discovering Drug Target Proteins by Exploring Networks of Heterogeneous Biological Data
by Patrick Durand, Laurent Labarre, Alain Meil and Jérôme Wojcik
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Mining Genomic Data with Metaheuristic Techniques
by Carlos Cotta and Pablo Moscato
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Mining Distributed and Heterogeneous Clinical Data Sources
by George Potamias
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Validation of Clustering Techniques for Microarray Gene Eexpression Data
by Nadia Bolshakova and Pádraig Cunningham
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Network Visualization in Biomedical Informatics
by Alkiviadis Symeonidis and Ioannis G. Tollis
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Dispensation Order Generation for Pyrosequencing
by Mats Carlsson |
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Exploring Genomes with the Self-Organizing Map
by Shaun Mahony and Aaron Golden |
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Combating Illiteracy in Chemistry: Towards Computer-Based Chemical Structure Reconstruction
by Marc Zimmermann, Le Thuy Bui Thi and Martin Hofmann
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Simulation and Modelling of Biomedical Processes: |
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Integrative Biology - Exploiting e-Science to Combat Fatal Diseases
by Damian Mac Randal, David Gavaghan, David Boyd, Sharon Lloyd, Andrew Simpson and Lakshmi Sastry |
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Bioinformatics in the Fast Lane
by Finn Drabløs and Ståle Fjeldstad |
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In Silico Virtual Experiments
by Wanda Andreoni |
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Modelling a Living Cell - Mathematics to Model Metabolic Pathways
by Joke Blom and Annette Kik |
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Integrative Biology at CCLRC
by Daniel Hanlon, Lakshmi Sastry and Kerstin Kleese van Dam |
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Applying Complex Models on Genomic Data
by Patrick Durand, Dominique Lavenier, Michel Leborgne, Anne Siegel, Philippe Veber and Jacques Nicolas |
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BAIT: Bacteria - Antibiotic Interaction Tool
by Grainne Kerr |
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Agent-Based Modelling applied to HIV/AIDS
by Ashley Callaghan
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Regulatory Compliance of Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
by Eleni Pratsini and Doug Dean |
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Biomedical Image and Signal Analysis: |
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Definition and Evaluation of MRI-Based Measures for the Neuroradiological Investigation of Creutzfeld-Jakob Diseases
by Marius George Linguraru and Nicholas Ayache |
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Biomedical Imaging for Enhanced Genetic Data Analysis
by Thanasis Margaritis, Kostas Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis and Dimitris Kafetzopoulos
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Virtual Tissue Matrix: A Pathologist Aid in Tissue Microarray Analysis
by Catherine M. Conway, Graham Dodrill, Darragh Lawler and Daniel G. O'Shea
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis in 4D Video-Microscopy
by Charles Kervrann, Jérôme Boulanger and Patrick Bouthemy |
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Improved Quantification of the Heart by Utilizing Images from Different Imaging Directions
by Jyrki Lötjönen, Juha Koikkalainen and Kirsi Lauerma |
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Analogic CNN Computing Fosters Detecting Stroke Signs
by Tamás Szabó and Péter Szolgay
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Computer at the Microscope: Visualization and Analysis of Three-Dimensional Microscopy Data
by Wim de Leeuw |
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Time Profiles Rreveal the Structure of Sleep Stages in the Neonatal EEG
by Vladimír Krajca, Svojmil Petránek, Karel Paul and Milos Matousek |
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Data Mining in Children's Hypnograms
by András Lukács and László Lukács |
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R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER |
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The Quest for Novel Computational Paradigms and Machines
by Christof Teuscher
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A Light-Weight and Scalable Network Profiling System
by Andreas Kind, Paul Hurley and Jeroen Massar |
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Health Care Monitoring of Mobile Patients
by Giuseppe Amato, Stefano Chessa, Fabrizio Conforti, Alberto Macerata and Carlo Marchesi |
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Pervasive Patient Monitoring - Take Two at Bedtime…
by Dirk Husemann and Michael Nidd |
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Development of a Real-Time 2D and 3D Echocardiographic Diagnostic System
by Dániel Hillier, Zsolt Czeilinger, András Vobornik, Zsolt Szálka, Gergely Soós, László Kék, Viktor Binzberger, David Lopez Vilarino and Csaba Rekeczky |
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The Advantages of Reused Software Components
by Nancy Bazilchuk and Parastoo Mohagheghi |
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POAC: Optical Computer for Large Data Sets
by Ahmed Ayoub, László Orzó and Szabolcs Tökés
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CASCOM - Context-Aware Health-Care Service Co-ordination in Mobile Computing Environments
by César Cáceres, Alberto Fernández, and Sascha Ossowski |
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Virtual Reconstruction of an Egyptian Beaker
by Marco Callieri and Flora Silvano
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The GeometryFactory and CGAL - The Computational Geometry Algorithm Library
by Andreas Fabri |
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SUGGEST: An Online Recommender System for Large Web Sites
by Ranieri Baraglia and Fabrizio Silvestri |
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Ambulant Player: A Universal Multimedia Player
by Annette Kik and Dick Bulterman |
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EVENTS |
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Report: |
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FMICS 2004 - Ninth International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
by Juan Bicarregui, Andrew Butterfield and Alvao Arenas
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For conference announcements, see:
Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics |
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IN BRIEF |
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CWI - Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize
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Fraunhofer ICT Group - Ina Schieferdecker has been awarded the Alfried Krupp Prize
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NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology students win regional programming contest
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CWI - Ronald Cramer joins Dutch Young Academy of Arts and Sciences
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VTT Information Technology - Jussi Tuovinen has been appointed research director for VTT Information Technology
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CWI - SpaRCIM - Software Engineering and Production Technologies Society founded
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