General Chairs

Paulo J. Lisboa, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Riccardo Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy

Biostatistic Technical Chair

Elia Biganzoli, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Bioinformatics Technical Chair

Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple Univ. Philadelphia, PA, USA

Scientific Committee

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Department of Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Federico Ambrogi, University of Milan Milan, Italy
Claudia Angelini, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone" (IAC), sede di Napoli, IAC-CNR Naples, Italy
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Gilles G. Bernot, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Chengpeng Bi, Bioinformatics, Children’s Mercy Hosp., Kansas City, USA
Mario Cannataro, University “Magna Graecia” Catanzaro, Italy
Xuewen Chen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Giuseppe Di Fatta, Computer Science and Informatics School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading Reading UK
Enrico Formenti, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Salvatore Gaglio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Christoph Friedrich, Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Antonio Giordano, University of Siena, Italy and Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center for Biotechnology, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Saman Halgamuge, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pietro Lio', Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Michael Lones, Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK
Elena Marchiori, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Giancarlo Mauri, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, University of Milano Bicocca Milan, Italy
Luciano Milanesi, Istituto di tecnologie biomediche (ITB), sede di Milano, CNR, Milan, Italy
David A. Pelta, Dept. of Computer Science and A.I. University of Granada, Granada Spain
Leif E. Peterson, Methodist Hospital Research Institute Houston, TX, USA
Gianluca Pollastri, Complex and Adaptive Systems Lab, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland
Mihail Popescu, Health Management and Info. Dept., University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Volker Roth, Computer Science Dept., University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Giuseppe Russo, Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jennifer Smith, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA
Federico Mattia Stefanini, Department of Statistics "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Florence Italy
Alfonso Urso, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy
Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Kay Wiese, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada
Yanqing Zhang, Dept. of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Local Organizing Committee:

Alfonso Urso, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy
Pietro Storniolo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy
Giosué Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy

Congress Management:

Fabio Ferrara, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy
Giampiero Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, (ICAR), sede di Palermo, CNR, Palermo Italy

Steering Committee

Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine CA, USA
Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca Romania
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham UK
Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy and Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA
Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno Italy