MAS&BIO 2008

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Workshop on MultiAgent Systems and Bioinformatics
Cagliari, Italy, 11/09/2008

MAS&BIO 2008 was held in conjunction with AI*IA 2008, whose own theme that year was AI and Life Science, and was organised by the AI*IA working group on agents and multi-agent systems. It set out to create synergies between researchers working on software agents and those working on bioinformatics and computational biology, focusing on the benefits of agent technology in storing, accessing and distributing biological data; in automating information gathering and inference in biological settings; and in analysing, modelling and simulating biological objects and systems. Selected papers were announced for a special issue of an international journal.

topics of interest
  • Multi-Agent Interaction in Biological Settings
  • Coordination of tasks and data
  • Collaboration in peer-to-peer networks
  • Multi-strategy and meta-learning for cooperative information agents
  • Analysis and Modelling of Data and Tasks
  • Integrated genotyping and gene linkage analysis
  • Multi-agent systems for gene expression analysis
  • Multi-agent systems for protein analysis
  • Modelling of biological processes
  • Architectures, Languages, Tools, and Applications
  • Agent-based architectures and frameworks tailored for biological domains
  • Knowledge management
  • Agent-based integration of biological knowledge
  • Agent-based data mining and knowledge discovery in biological domains
  • Multi-agent information gathering in biological settings
  • Integration of heterogeneous data sources and/or services
  • Ontologies for Biological Domains
hosting event
world AI*IA 2008
works as
origin event for publication
page_white_acrobatLineage Commitment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells: An Agent-based Model (paper in proceedings, 2008) — Sara Montagna, Andrea Omicini, Marco Alberti
hosting event for talk
page_white_powerpointLineage Commitment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells: An Agent-based Model (MAS&BIO 2008 @ AI*IA 2008, 11/09/2008) — Andrea Roli (Andrea Omicini, Sara Montagna)