[alife] Deadline extension: Special Issue of AICom on "Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering"

S Hoche hoche at compsci.bristol.ac.uk
Fri Dec 15 06:36:23 PST 2006


Due to several requests, we have extended the submission deadline for 
the following call towards January 14th, 2007:

                                           Call for papers:

                          Special Issue of AI Communications Journal on
                   "Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering"
                                            Guest Editors
                      Susanne Hoche, Andreas Nuernberger, Peter Flach

Network analysis and modelling address a wide spectrum of techniques for
studying domains consisting of individuals that are linked together into
complex networks. Networks refer to artificial and natural systems like
communication networks, social networks and biological networks.
They constitute a very active area of research in a variety of 
scientific disciplines,
including Physics, Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

More recently, the study of artificial networks has gained increased 
attention in
diverse areas of application such as genetic regulatory networks, social 
networks,
bibliographic networks and the world wide web. Both graph theory and 
techniques
developed for the analysis of social networks provide a substantial 
background for
studying the structure, dynamics and evolution of such complex 
biological and
artificial networks. They allow us to study aspects such as fault 
tolerance, adaptability,
complexity, information flow, community structures and propagation 
patterns.

With this special issue of AI Communications we wish to explore the  
state of the
art in theoretical and applied network analysis and modelling in the 
context of
diverse disciplines. We are especially interested in submissions that 
discuss relations
and similarities between natural and artificial networks.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Mining and learning from network data
* Prediction of structural network properties
* Network dynamics
* Network topology
* Evolution of networks
* Community structures
* Topological motifs
* Pattern mining
* Social network analysis in human and animal societies
* Genetic regulatory and protein interaction networks
* Robustness issues
* Complexity issues
* Adaptability in biological networks
* Model selection and sampling in networks
* Massive graph mining
* Information networks
* Applications of network theory

AI Communications Journal:
AI Communications is the European journal of Artificial Intelligence, 
published
by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
(http://www.eccai.org/).  More information about the journal can be 
found at
http://aicom.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/.


Submissions must be original. Work cannot be previously published, pending
publication or under review for any another journal. The journal will, 
however,
publish work  that has appeared in a conference or workshop proceedings.
Please consult  http://aicom.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/charter.html for the 
journal's
editorial charter.

Submission:
Papers should be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf format to
Susanne Hoche <hoche at cs.bris.ac.uk> and Andreas Nuernberger
<nuernb at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> by the 14th of  January 2007 (extended
submission deadline). Please refer to the AI Communications' formatting 
details
"for the authors" at  http://aicom.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/.

Important dates:

Submission of papers (extended) 14.01.07
Author notification 28.02.07
Revised versions due 31.03.07

Susanne Hoche, Andreas Nuernberger and Peter Flach

Guest Editors AI Communications journal Special Issue on
"Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering"





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