[alife] Final CfP: Session on Complex Networks @ ALife XII (submission deadline: 9 April)
Carlos Gershenson
cgg at unam.mx
Tue Mar 30 16:58:22 PDT 2010
//Please redistribute
//Apologies for multiple copies
Final Call for Papers
Session on Complex Networks
at
ALife XII: 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and
Simulation of Living Systems
Odense, Denmark, 19-23 August 2010
Coordinators: Mikhail Prokopenko and Carlos Gershenson
http://www.prokopenko.net/ComplexNetworks.html
Motivation
Many complex systems are amenable to be described as networks. These
include genetic regulatory, structural or functional cortical
networks, ecological systems, metabolism of biological species, author
collaborations, interaction of autonomous systems in the Internet,
etc. A recent trend suggests to study common global topological
features of such networks, e.g. network diameter, clustering
coefficients, assortativity, modularity, community structure, etc.
Various network growth models have also been proposed and studied to
emulate the features of the real-world networks, e.g. the preferential
attachment model, which explains scale-free power law degree
distributions observed in many real-world networks.
Another direction is to investigate network motifs and subgraphs in
order to understand and analyse the local structure and function of
networks. The presence of a certain motif in a network may mean that
that motif plays an important role in the overall functionality of the
network. Thus, functionality of specific motifs, including their
information processing and control functions, is a challenging topic
relevant in Artificial Life studies, such as genetic regulatory
networks, cell signaling networks, and protein interaction networks.
In addition, propagation and processing of information within networks
may be analysed as (Shannon) information dynamics. Such analysis
requires to consider not only networks' topology, but also the time-
series dynamics at individual nodes. Specific topics of interest
include phase transitions of network properties between ordered and
chaotic regimes, where information transfer is often maximised, and
other nonlinear phenomena related to criticality in networks.
Goal
The intention of the session is to bring together researchers from
both Artificial Life and Complex Networks communities, in order to
facilitate cross-fertilization, increase exposure of both communities
to relevant research and foster new collaborations.
Guest Lectures
Prof. John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience, Berlin
Submission
Contributions to the Session should be prepared and submitted
according to the ALife guidelines, available at http://alifexii.org/submissions/
. There are two types of submission: papers (8 pages max) and
abstracts (500 words max). Every submission will be subject to full
peer review. All accepted submissions will be allocated an oral
presentation slot with no distinction being made between the two
submission formats.
Publications
Every accepted full-paper and abstract submission will be published by
MIT Press in the ALife online open-access proceedings. A special
issue of the MIT Press journal Artificial Life would follow, inviting
researchers to expand the work presented at the session.
Important Dates
Paper submission: April 9, 2010
Paper notification: May 7, 2010
Camera-ready: May 31, 2010
Conference: August 19-23, 2010
Organizers
Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko
CSIRO, Australia
http://www.prokopenko.net/
Dr. Carlos Gershenson
UNAM, Mexico
http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/
More information about the alife-announce
mailing list