LCSN 2013 - The International Workshop on Life-Cycle of Social Networks (LCSN 2013)

The increasing complexity, dynamics and evolution of real-world networks combined with constantly growing capabilities of gathering network data from natural and technology-based networked systems make network analysis one of the key challenges in the area of complex systems. The analysis of dynamic complex networks is at the early stages and requires a lot of effort in both developing the tools and approaches to tackle them as well as understanding the nature and functioning of such networks.
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This workshop is devoted to analysis of evolving complex networked structures and their dynamics, primarily focusing on social networks and their convergence with technological networks (like software and service networks). The main theme of the workshop are models of growth and decay in social networks, which take into account such phenomena as appearance and disappearance of links and nodes as well as evolution of the link weights. As nodes in most complex networks unambiguously represent individual entities, (e.g. people in social networks as opposed to particles in physical systems) the models, which take into account local topology and in consequence preserve the identity of the nodes are of particular interest for this workshop.
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As the area of complex social networked systems is highly cross-disciplinary, the workshop will offer an opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners as well as foster and develop sustainable collaborations between Computer Science and Informatics, Engineering, Physics, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Geographic and Environmental Science, and Health and Social Sciences, providing a platform to share visions, experience research achievements and solutions.
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The workshop organizers are:
Dr Marcin Budka, School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK (http://www.budka.co.uk/)
Dr Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK (http://www.katemusial.com/)
Dr Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Institute of Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland (http://www.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/~juszczyszyn/)
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