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SIMPLEX 2010: 2nd Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners 21st June 2010, Genoa, Italy http://www.simplexconf.net

Co-located with IEEE ICDCS 2010

THEME ----------

Network Science, sometimes also called “complex networks science”, has recently attracted much attention from the scientific community, mainly due to the almost ubiquitous presence of complex networks in real-world systems. Examples of complex networks are found in living organisms, in engineering systems, as well as in social networks. Most of the real- world systems have the required degree of complexity to be called “complex systems”. Complexity may have to do with the intricate dynamics of the interacting components, with the non-trivial properties of the underlying network topology, or with the sheer size of the system itself.

Despite the numerous workshops and conferences related to network science, it is still a set of loosely interacting communities. Those communities would benefit from better interactions. Researchers in network science can be categorized according to the theoretical school from which they come, e.g. statistical physics, game theory, information theory, distributed algorithms. Each school tackles a very particular aspect of complex systems, like statistical interactions between components, or the computation of the equilibrium of a particular system. The assumptions made by each school to apply their theoretical tools make it very difficult for practitioners to apply their results to practical situations.

Simplex aims at triggering different computer science communities (e.g. communication networks, distributed systems) to propose research areas and topics that should be tackled from the network science perspective. We also seek contributions from network science that are relevant to solve practical computer science problems. Two types of contributions are foreseen from prospective authors. The first type would consist of use-cases of theoretical tools and methods to solve practical problems. Such contributions should be as usable as possible by practitioners in the related field. The second type of contributions would come from practitioners that have identified a problem that may be solved by tools from network sciences. The point of such contributions is to make the network sciences community aware of the importance of a high-impact problem, and to suggest means by which the problem may be solved by the network sciences community. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners, and also have high potential impact in either field.

Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: • Design of wired/wireless networks • Representing and analyzing dynamic networks • Network robustness to failures and attacks • Mining of large scale networks • Forwarding/routing for opportunistic network • Mobility/connectivity modelling • Anti-spam and Sybil attacks

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------------------------

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. The proceedings of the conference and the workshops will be published in CDs by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Accepted papers will also be nominated to present at Netsci conference (http://netsci2010.net) if the authors are interested.

All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5” x 11” Two-Column Format. Each submission can have 8 pages plus up to 2 over-length pages. If the paper is accepted for publication, an over-length fee will be charged to each of the over-length pages at $200 per page in the final camera-ready version.

The paper submission site is located at: http://www.simplexconf.net/

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Paper Submission January 22, 2010 Authors Notification March 10, 2010 Camera-ready March 30, 2010 Workshop Date June 21, 2010

For all questions, feel free to ask the PC chairs directly: Steve UHLIG, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ TU Berlin, Germany Pan HUI, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ TU Berlin, Germany _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc