Call For Papers Simplex 2009

http://www.simplexconf.net

ORGANIZERS PC Co-Chairs :

Steve Uhlig Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ TU Berlin, Germany Pan Hui Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ TU Berlin, Germany

Web Co-Chairs:

Fehmi Ben Abdesslem University of St Andrews, UK Nishanth Sastry University of Cambridge, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alain Barrat University of Marseille, France Marian Boguna University of Barcelona, Spain Stefan Bornholdt University of Bremen, Germany Paul Bourgine Ecole Polytechnique, France Guido Caldarelli Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Augustin Chaintreau Thomson research lab, France Nathan Eagle MIT/Santa Fe Institute, USA Damien Fey McGill University, Canada Marta Gonzalez Northeastern University, USA Pan Hui T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany Almerima Jamakovic TNO ICT, Netherlands Hawoong Jeong KAIST, Korea Mark Crovella Boston University, USA Dimitri Krioukov CAIDA, USA Matthieu Latapy UPMC/LIP6, France Vito Latora University of Catania, Italy Shishir Nagaraja UIUC, USA Clemence Magnien UPMC/LIP6, France Jose Mendes University of Aveiro, Portugal Richard Mortier Vipadia Ltd., UK Raul Mondragon University of London, UK Andrew Moore University of Cambridge, UK Nadine Peyrieras INAF-CNRS, France Michael Rabbat McGill University, Canada Nishanth Sastry University of Cambridge, UK Georgios Smaragdakis Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Steve Uhlig T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany Walter Willinger AT&T research, USA Shi Zhou University College London, UK

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”. Complex 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 is expected to trigger the communication networks community to propose the topics that should be tackled from the network science perspective, and let the network community explain how to best use their tools for practical problems of communication networks. 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:

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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. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and placed in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions must be in English, no longer than 6 pages and in PDF format, and using the ACM templates (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). They should have Type 1 fonts (scalable), not Type 3 (bit-mapped). All fonts must be embedded within the PDF file. In order to allow papers to appear in the ACM Digital Library, authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit, together with their camera-ready, an ACM proceedings copyright transfer form (http://www.acm.org/publications/copyright_form). To ensure timely publication of the accepted papers by ACM, we require authors to submit their camera-ready paper as well as the copyright transfer form by no later than June 5. Failure to send the camera-ready and copyright transfer on time will prevent the publication of the paper and its inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. The paper submission site is located at: http://www.simplexconf.net/

IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission

April 30, 2009

Authors Notification

May 29, 2009

Camera-ready

June 5, 2009

Registration Deadline

June 10, 2009

Workshop Date

July 1, 2009

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