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Bioinformatics and Bioengineering TC

Name

This organization is known as the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee (BBTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the BBTC is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of computational intelligence methods in the application areas of bioinformatics, bioengineering, and computational biology.

Membership

The BBTC is open to any members of the IEEE, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are three grades of members: active, non-active, and affiliate. Active members are those who regularly participate in BBTC activities and meetings and shall be eligible to vote on matters before the committee. Non-active members are those who have an interest in the BBTC activities but are unable to actively participate. Non-active members will automatically become active members when present at a BBTC meeting. Affiliates are non-IEEE members who have an interest in BBTC activities and meetings, but will not be eligible to vote on matters before the committee.

Officers

The BBTC Chair shall be appointed by the President of the CIS based on the recommendations from the committee, for a one-year term and up to a maximum of two terms. Each November, the BBTC shall make recommendation to the President for appointment as BBTC Chair for the following year.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the BBTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS AdCom, funds will be available to support the BBTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds.

Activities

The BBTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote the wider acceptance of computational intelligence as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following: organize special sessions for CIS-sponsored conferences, participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences, nominate lecturers for the CIS distinguished speakers program, collaborate on production of tutorials, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, sponsor publication of books or CDs, and organize specialized focused symposia, workshops, or meetings. The BBTC will actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to ensure and maintain technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair one or two times a year usually before the CIS AdCom meetings, or at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, or as requested by the BBTC members. Sufficient advanced notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as all other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 membership approval. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Members

L. Gwenn Volkert, Chair (2008) Department of Computer Science Kent State University Kent, OH 44242, USA phone: 330-672-9037 fax: 330-672-7824 email: volkert .a_t. cs.kent.edu www: www.cs.kent.edu/~volkert/

Madhu Chetty, Vice Chair (2008) Gippsland School of Information Technology Monash University Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia phone: +61 3 9902 7148 fax: +61 3 99-2 6849 email: Madhu.Chetty .a_t. infotech.monash.edu.au www: personal/gscit.monash.edu.au/~mchetty/

Jennifer Hallinan, Vice Chair (2008) RCUK Research Fellow in Complex Systems, School of Computing Science Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK NE1 7RU United Kingdom phone: +44 0191 222 3866 fax: +44-191-222-8232 email: J.S.Hallinan .a_t. ncl.ac.uk

Francisco Azuaje, fj.azuaje .a_t. ulster.ac.uk
Daniel Ashlock,
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay,
Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi,
Xue-Wen Chen,
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, pcchung .a_t. ee.ncku.edu.tw
Clare Bates Congdon,
David Corne, dwcorne .a_t. macs.hw.ac.uk
Sorin Draghici,
Gary B. Fogel, gfogel .a_t. natural-selection.com
Christoph Friedrich,
Saman Halgamuge,
Lutz Hamel,
David Hecht,
Daniel Howard,
Hitoshi Iba,
Christian Jacob,
Elena Marchiori,
Alioune Ngom,
David Peterson,
Mihail Popescu,
Jagath Rajapaske,
Jem Rowland,
Scott Smith,
Kay C. Wiese, wiese .a_t. cs.sfu.ca
Yanqing Zhang,

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