HSB 2019 : Hybrid Systems and Biology

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CALL FOR PAPERS

HSB 2019: 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems and Biology
https://hsb2019.fit.vutbr.cz/

April 6-7, Prague, Czech Republic. Co-located with ETAPS 2019

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HSB is a single-track workshop centering on dynamical models in biology,
with an emphasis on both hybrid systems (in the classical sense, i.e.,
mixed continuous/discrete/stochastic systems) and hybrid approaches that
combine modelling, analysis, algorithmic and experimental techniques from
different areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Modelling and analysis of metabolic, signalling, and genetic regulatory
networks in living cells.
- Models of tissues, organs, physiological models.
- Models and methods dealing with incomplete, uncertain and heterogeneous
information including learning for biological systems, parametric
synthesis and inference.
- Stochastic and hybrid models in biology.
- Hierarchical systems for multi-scale, multi-domain analysis.
- Abstraction, approximation, discretisation, and model reduction
techniques.
- Modelling, analysis and design for synthetic biology, cyber-biological
systems and biomedical studies (e.g. therapies, teleoperation).
- Game-theoretical frameworks and population models in biology
(e.g. Mixed-Effects and Bayesian modelling).
- Biological applications of quantitative and formal analysis techniques
(e.g. reachability computation, model checking, abstract interpretation,
bifurcation theory, stability and sensitivity analysis).
- Efficient techniques for combined and heterogeneous (stochastic/
deterministic, spatial/non-spatial) simulations for biological models.
- Modelling languages and logics for biological systems, with related
analysis and simulation tools.
- Control architectures of biological systems including
biology-in-the-loop systems and bio-robotics.

In general, the workshop is open to new theoretical results with
potential applications to systems and synthetic biology, as well as novel
applications and case studies of existing methods, tools, or frameworks.

Post-proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer LNCS/LNBI
series, indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP,
and Google Scholar.

A journal special issue is under consideration.

Papers should be submitted to one of the following categories:
- Regular papers (max 15 pages + max 2 pages of references)
- Tool papers (max 6 pages + max 2 pages of references). Tool papers
require the submission of an executable artifact that contains clear
instructions for the reviewer on how to run the tool.

In addition to original paper contributions, HSB 2019 also welcomes
abstracts for poster presentation, and abstracts for non-original
work (already published or under submission).
See http://hsb2019.fit.vutbr.cz/call_papers.php for more details.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 16.12.2018
Poster abstract submission: 16.12.2018
Author notification: 15.2.2019
Final pre-proceedings version: 24.2.2019
Final post-proceedings version: 5.5.2019

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INVITED SPEAKERS
- Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford (UK)
- Michela Chiappalone, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia of Genova (IT)
- Igor Schreiber, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (CZ)

IN MEMORY OF ODED MALER
HSB will have a special session dedicated to the memory of Oded Maler,
very much missed member of HSB's steering committee and one of the
founders of the workshop. The session will celebrate his life and
scientific contributions with invited talks by:
- Thao Dang, CNRS/VERIMAG, France,
- Eugene Asarin, IRIF, France,
- Alexandre Donzé, Decyphir Inc. and University of California at
Berkeley, USA

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PC CHAIRS
Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology, CZ
Nicola Paoletti, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE
Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK
Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, Italy
Eugenio Cinquemani, INRIA Grenoble, France
Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France
Alexandre Donze, University of California at Berkeley, USA/Decyphir Inc
Adam Halasz, West Virginia University, USA
Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France
Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy
David Safranek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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