SCENE 2014 - The 2014 International Workshop on Smart Complex Engineered Networks (SCENE)

Complex engineered networks ? such as Internet, power grids, online social networks, sensor networks - are ubiquitous. They take up important roles in our society to meet societal and economic challenges of prime importance. The evolution of future complex engineered networking infrastructures will have to take into consideration the unprecedented size of the networks and the intricacies of network interdependencies. The increasing demand for complex engineered networking devices and services has made the physical and cyber world more entwined, and spurred the need towards evolution of new networks. For example, the Internet no longer just connects people but is evolving into an Internet of Things, and the power grids are transforming into Smart Grids through better monitoring and supervisory control networks. New complex engineered network services for disaster recovery management, large-scale monitoring and data analytics for environmental and health applications are also emerging. However, there is currently very little understanding in designing and controlling these complex engineered networks, and understanding their robustness, cyber-security, efficiency, network resilience etc. Furthermore, the costs for network operators can be critical to guide the design principles. The foregoing considerations highlight the urgent need for designing smart complex engineered networks.
This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to design of smart complex engineered networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Network science of complex engineered networks
Cross-system interaction design for complex engineered networks
Metrics, fundamental limits, and trade-offs involving complex engineered networks
Complex network architectures and its evolution
Dynamics of networks and behavior prediction that evolve over time
Cyber-Security and enterprise networking
Network interdependencies, coupling and decoupling, and coordination
Network resilience, forensics, security, privacy and vulnerability
Data analytics in complex engineered networks
Large-scale cooperative networking for smart environments
Smart network management and resource allocation techniques
Network economics of complex engineered networks
Test-bed, experimental results, and hardware prototypes
Regulation and standardization
Applications like Internet of Things, Smart Grid, disaster recovery, health and environmental monitoring and management