Simplex 2009

http://www.simplexconf.net/

Date of event: July 1, 2009
Submission deadline: April 30, 2009
Registration deadline: June 10, 2009

Call For Papers Simplex 2009

1st Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Network for Practitioners

http://www.simplexconf.net
1st July 2009, Venice, Italy


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 makes 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 of interest include (but are not restricted to):


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/


Steering Committee
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, UK
Steve Uhlig Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/TU Berlin, Germany
Pan Hui Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/TU Berlin, Germany
Walter Willinger ATT research, USA

PC Co-chairs
Steve Uhlig T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany
Pan Hui T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany

Web Co-chairs
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem University of St Andrews, UK
Nishanth Sastry University of Cambridge, UK


TPC members
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
Mark Crovella Boston University, USA
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
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

Deadlines
Paper submission: April 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2009
Camera-ready: June 5, 2009
Registration deadline: June 10, 2009
Workshop: July 1, 2009