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Robotics Science and Systems

Berkeley, California, July 12, 2014

Full-day Workshop



Call for Papers for Journal Special Issue



Expanded papers selected from the RSS 2014 Workshop on Robotics Methods for Structural and Dynamic Modeling of Molecular Systems (RMMS) held in Berkeley will appear as a special issue of Robotica in (expected) Summer 2015.

We are opening this special issue to submissions that were not presented at the RMMS Workshop.

Papers should be submitted via the online submission system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/robotica and `RMMS2014' should be included as a keyword during the submission/review process.

If you are interested, please email a short abstract of your planned submission to rmms14@cs.unm.edu by December 10th, 11:59pm EST and follow up with full papers through the online submission system no later than January 10th, 11:59pm EST. (extended)

Robotica is a forum for the multidisciplinary subject of robotics and encourages developments, applications and research in this important field of automation and robotics with regard to industry, health, education and economic and social aspects of relevance. The RMMS special issue of Robotica seeks to stimulate, and advance the exchange of, research ideas regarding the prediction of molecular structures, simulation of molecular motions, and analysis of structure-dynamics-function relationships between the sub-communities of robotics, AI, and molecular modeling. Papers on adaptations and applications of methods inspired by robotics and AI to characterize biomolecular structure, motion, dynamics, complexation, and aggregation are encouraged for submission.

Topics of interest for the special issue include but are not limited to:

  1. Modeling equilibrium structural states
  2. Modeling structural fluctuations and large-scale motions
  3. Predicting thermodynamics and kinetics properties
  4. Simulating protein and RNA folding
  5. Reconstructing molecular energy landscapes
  6. Modeling molecular docking and aggregation
  7. Simulating ligand diffusion
  8. Interactive haptic-based molecular simulations
  9. Computational and theoretical methods for biomolecular structure determination
Regards,

Special Issue Guest Editors
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri, chengji\AT\missouri.edu
Juan Cortes, LAAS-CNRS, juan.cortes\AT\laas.fr
Amarda Shehu, George Mason University, amarda\AT\gmu.edu
Lydia Tapia, University of New Mexico, tapia\AT\cs.unm.edu