<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-b21febc0-7fff-5bde-3e71-e6b05dc1783b" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CMSB 2019: 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: -72pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 72pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">First Call for Contributions</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><a href="https://cmsb2019.units.it/" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "PT Mono"; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://cmsb2019.units.it/</span></a></p><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The 17th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2019) will take place from </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">18th to 20th September 2019</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> in Trieste, Italy. Its aim is to bring together researchers from across biological, mathematical, computational, and physical sciences who are interested in the study, modelling, simulation, advanced analysis, and design of biological systems. CMSB 2019 will be hosted at the University of Trieste.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Benenson Kobi, synthetic biology group, ETH Zurich, CH</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Adelinde Uhrmacher, Modelling and Simulation Group, Rostock University, DE </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Other invited speakers will be announced soon.</span></p><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth).</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 11.4pt;" class=""><table style="border: none; border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><colgroup class=""><col width="471" class=""><col width="91" class=""></colgroup><tbody class=""><tr style="height: 0pt;" class=""><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paper submission</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">:</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: right;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">10.4.2019</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;" class=""><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Author notification</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">:</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: right;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">5.6.2019</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;" class=""><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Final version:</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: right;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">21.6.2019</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;" class=""><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Presentation and poster abstract submission:</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-width: 0.75pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0.75pt; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); vertical-align: bottom; padding: 2.85pt;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: right;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">28.6.2019</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CMSB 2019 solicits original research articles, tool papers, posters, and presentations on the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">modelling </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> analysis of biological systems</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> and networks as well as the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">analysis of biological data</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. It covers the broad field of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">computational methods </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> tools </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">in</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> systems </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">and</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> synthetic biology</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> and their </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">applications</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></div><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- formalisms for modelling biological processes</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- models, methods, tools and their biological applications</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of biological systems</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- high-performance methods for computational systems biology </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- parameter and model inference from experimental data</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- automated parameter and model synthesis </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- model integration and biological databases</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- multi-scale modelling and analysis methods</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- theoretical systems biology </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In general, the conference 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.</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The CMSB 2019 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">A selection of best papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to a special issue of a Bioinformatics journal. </span></div><br class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories:</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">A) Regular papers</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">B) Tool papers</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">C) Posters</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">D) Presentations</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">A) CALL FOR REGULAR PAPERS</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. The papers should </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not exceed 15 pages</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> in Springer LNCS style, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not counting references</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> and well-marked appendices. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">B) CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tool papers should present new tools or public websites, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools or websites supporting the modelling, specification and analysis of biological systems. Each submission should be original and not previously published in a tool paper form. The papers should </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not exceed 6 pages</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> in Springer LNCS style </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">including references</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, but not counting well-marked appendices. The papers must include information on methods, tool availability, and selected experimental results. Tool papers are required to be submitted together with an artefact by the submission deadline (for details see the guidelines – </span><a href="https://cmsb2019.units.it/?page_id=219" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(152, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://cmsb2019.units.it/?page_id=219</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">). </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Artefacts will be evaluated by the tool evaluation committee in parallel with the review procedure. The program committee will have access to the tool artefact evaluation while making their decision. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In special cases, where an artefact cannot be submitted, the authors are suggested to contact the program chairs to find alternate modes of evaluation. Apart of the presentation, accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a showcase/running demo during the tool demo session.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">C) CALL FOR POSTERS</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CMSB 2018 solicits poster abstracts presenting </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I) original unpublished work</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">II) recent outstanding results</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> already accepted to a recognised journal or a high-quality conference during the last year. The abstracts should be submitted in Springer LNCS style and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">should</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not exceed 2 pages including references</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. Based on the abstracts the program committee will select posters to be presented at the CMSB 2018 poster session including flash presentations. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">D) CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CMSB 2018 offers the track of oral presentations without full paper or poster submission. We welcome submissions of work that has been already published in a journal, or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. The abstracts summarizing the results and their relevance should </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">not exceed 2 pages including references</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. The document format must be single spaced and written in an 11 point type font.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">SUBMISSION INFORMATION</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">All papers and poster/presentation abstracts have to be written in English and submitted electronically using the EasyChair online submission system (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2019)" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times; color: rgb(152, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2019</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">) in the form of a PDF file.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices and thus the submissions must be intelligible without them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">All accepted contributions must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS`</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, AT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nikola Beneš, Masaryk University, CZ</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, IT (co-chair)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Giulio Caravagna, Institute of Cancer Research London, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luca Cardelli, University of Oxford, UK </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Milan Češka, Brno University of Technology, CZ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Claudine Chaouiya, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, PT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Eugenio Cinquemani, IBIS – INRIA, Grenoble, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Hidde de Jong, IBIS – INRIA, Grenoble FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">François Fages, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jérôme Feret, INRIA, Paris, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna, AT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Elisa Franco, University of California at Riverside, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tomáš Gedeon, Montana State University, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Monika</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jane Hillston, The University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Heinz Köppl, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jean Krivine, IRIF, Paris Diderot University, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Laura Nenzi, Vienna University of Technology, AT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Marco Nobile - University of Milano-Bicocca, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Diego Oyarzún - Imperial College London, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Loïc Paulevé, CNRS/LRI, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi Turku, FI</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tatjana</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Petrov, Universität Konstanz, DE </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Carla Piazza, University of Udine, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ovidiu Radulescu, University of Montpellier 2, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Olivier Roux, Ecole Centrale Nantes, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Jakob Ruess - Institute Pasteur Paris, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Guido Sanguinetti, The University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Thomas Sauter, University of Luxembourg, LU</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">David Šafránek, Masaryk University, CZ</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">P.S. Thiagarajan, Harvard University, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Stefanie Winkelmann - Zuse Institut Berlin, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Verena Wolf, Saarland University, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Boyan Yordanov – Microsoft Research, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">TOOL EVALUATION COMMITTEE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dimitrios Milios, Eurecom, FR (chair)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Simone Silvetti, Esteco SpA, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste (Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Laura Nenzi - University of Trieste (Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Luca Bortolussi - University of Trieste (Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Francesca Cairoli - University of Trieste (Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Simone Silvetti - Esteco SpA (Trieste)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Laura Nenzi - University of Trieste (Italy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">STEERING COMMITTEE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Finn Drablos, NTNU, NO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">François Fages, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France, FR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Monika Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza – Mendel, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Satoru Miyano, The University of Tokyo, JP</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Gordon Plotkin, The University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Corrado Priami, University of Pisa, IT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 6pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">
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