FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
(www.scpe.org)
Volume 15, Issue 4: Special Issue on CLOUD for Health
In the last 20 years, computational methods and data analysis have
become very important part in health systems; especially, in research
areas such as biomodelling, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models,
medical image analysis, biotechnology, or automatic diagnosis. The
development of those areas leads to an unprecedented demand for
large-scale data management and analysis (Tbytes or Pbytes) and
scalability in computing power.
This new situation requires appropriate IT-infrastructures, where new
biomedical challenges can be solved within an acceptable timespan. Cloud
computing has the potential to help solving those problems by offering a
utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage
capabilities and abstraction layers that allow overcoming many of the
constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research
productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in
an easy way, by increasing the availability of new methods for the
research community, and by supporting large-scale multi-centric
collaborations.
The aim of this special issue is to promote synergies between cloud
computing and health communities by exploring applications developed in
clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio*, and new trends and needs
shared between both communities.
Thus, this special issue will feature articles that discuss applications
of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including
solutions to the problems in the area, and architectural adaptation of
cloud systems to fit those problems. The goals are to exchange and
discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, and
to gather an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps,
roadblocks).
TOPICS
Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
- Cloud-based bioinformatics and biomedicine applications
- Cloud-based applications in public health systems
- Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes
- Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution
- Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Visualization and analysis of biomedical images
- Integration and analysis of biomedical data
- Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis
workflows
- Biosignals processing using clouds
- Privacy and security issues for cloud-based health applications
- Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures
- Virtual HPC infrastructures for Health
- Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications
- Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds
- Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission: August 31th, 2014
- Author notification: October 1th 2014
- Camera Ready papers due: November 15th, 2014
- Publication: December, 2014
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The special issue seeks original, unpublished work on potential means to
foster better security, transparency and scalability in cloud-based
services.
The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-review process and papers will be
send to at least two independent academic referees. Papers that do not
merit publication (for any reason) can be rejected by the Special Issue
Editors without further review.
Submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's
instructions, which can be found at:
http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS
- Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Prof. Sandra Gesing. University of Notre Dame, USA
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