CoNeD 2014 - CoNeD 2014: Complex Network Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Tools for Modeling, Analysis, and Design

The study of complex networks is becoming pervasive in many fields of science and engineering, including biology, computer science, and the social and economic sciences, and a wide array of different perspectives and methods for understanding their dynamics are being introduced in these different fields. To permit broad understanding and design of complex networks, a common framework that supersedes and integrates the domain-specific viewpoints is needed. It is this need for synergistic study of complex networks that CoNeD seeks to address.
The goal of this full-day workshop is to explore the dynamics of complex networks (whether statistical or deterministic) from an inter-disciplinary perspective, but with a common focus on topology-centric or network-science approaches. With this goal in mind, the workshop is expected to highlight different types of dynamical processes (e.g. proliferation, diffusion etc) that take place on networks, and especially to determine how the network’s graph topology modulates the functionality/efficiency of such processes. Also, while the literature on complex networks has largely focused on modeling and analysis, the workshop will also aim to make headway on the estimation, control, and design of complex networks. To summarize, the workshop will identify broad relationships between a complex-network’s dynamics and its evolving topology that span and integrate understanding from multiple disciplines, so as to yield a broader understanding of these networks.
We envision that the inter-disciplinary understanding of complex networks developed in this workshop will prove especially valuable in the management of complex infrastructure networks (e.g., air transportation and electric-power networks) which require the tight interfacing of the cyber-, physical-, and human- elements. As such, the workshop will also explore the application of complex-networks tools in the management of such “cyber-physical” infrastructure networks. Of particular note, a keystone challenge in managing infrastructures is to characterize the security and robustness of these complex cyber-physical dynamics to threats, whether from sentient adversaries or natural disturbances; the workshop will explore this security and robustness challenge. Encouraged by the great success of CoNeD 2013 in conjunction with ICDCN 2013, the goal of CoNeD 2014 is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, stimulate new research, and foster collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers on the inter-disciplinary theory of complex dynamical networks and on the application of complex-network methods in infrastructure-network management, broadly defined.
Specific topics of interest include (but not limited to):
Models of Complex Networks
Structural Network Properties and Analysis
Complex Cyber-physical Networks
Control and Design of Complex Networks
Complex Networks in Biological Systems
Social Networks
Complex Networks and Epidemics
Community Structure in Networks
Geometry in Complex Networks
Network Evolution
Networks as Frameworks
Networks in Arts and Humanities
Synchronization in Networks
Security and Robustness Analysis of Cyber-physical Networks
Application of Complex Networks methods in Infrastructure Networks
Big Data in Complex Networks
Author Instructions
Papers should be at most 6 pages, including title, abstract, figures and references, and not published or under review elsewhere. Papers should be prepared as per ACM conference proceedings format. Workshop papers will not appear in the main conference proceedings but are expected to form part of the ACM Digital Library (under discussion with ACM). Please submit your papers through EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. In addition, no-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the proceedings.
General Chair
Sajal K. Das Missouri Univ. of Science & Tech, USA
Program Co-chairs
Preetam Ghosh Virginia Commonwealth University
Habib M Ammari University of Michigan, Dearborn