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ORGANIZERS THEME
PC Co-Chairs : Network Science, sometimes also called “complex networks science”, has recently attracted much
Steve Uhlig attention from the scientific community, mainly due to the almost ubiquitous presence of complex
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ networks in real-world systems. Examples of complex networks are found in living organisms, in
TU Berlin, Germany engineering systems, as well as in social networks. Most of the real-world systems have the required
Pan Hui degree of complexity to be called “complex systems”. Complex may have to do with the intricate
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/ dynamics of the interacting components, with the non-trivial properties of the underlying network
TU Berlin, Germany topology, or with the sheer size of the system itself.
Web Co-Chairs: Despite the numerous workshops and conferences related to network science, it is still a set of
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem loosely interacting communities. Those communities would benefit from better interactions.
University of St Andrews, UK Researchers in network science can be categorized according to the theoretical school from which
Nishanth Sastry they come, e.g. statistical physics, game theory, information theory, distributed algorithms. Each
University of Cambridge, UK 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
PROGRAM COMMITTEE each school to apply their theoretical tools make it very difficult for practitioners to apply their
Alain Barrat results to practical situations.
University of Marseille, France
Marian Boguna Simplex is expected to trigger the communication networks community to propose the topics that
University of Barcelona, Spain should be tackled from the network science perspective, and let the network community explain how
Stefan Bornholdt
to best use their tools for practical problems of communication networks. Two types of contributions
University of Bremen, Germany
Paul Bourgine are foreseen from prospective authors. The first type would consist of use-cases of theoretical tools
Ecole Polytechnique, France and methods to solve practical problems. Such contributions should be as usable as possible by
Guido Caldarelli practitioners in the related field. The second type of contributions would come from practitioners that
Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy have identified a problem that may be solved by tools from network sciences. The point of such
Augustin Chaintreau contributions is to make the network sciences community aware of the importance of a high-impact
Thomson research lab, France problem, and to suggest means by which the problem may be solved by the network sciences
Nathan Eagle community. Both contributions should stimulate interaction between theoreticians and practitioners,
MIT/Santa Fe Institute, USA and also have high potential impact in either field.
Damien Fey
McGill University, Canada Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Marta Gonzalez
Northeastern University, USA • Design of wired/wireless networks
Pan Hui • Representing and analyzing dynamic networks
T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany • Network robustness to failures and attacks
Almerima Jamakovic • Mining of large scale networks
TNO ICT, Netherlands • Forwarding/routing for opportunistic network
Hawoong Jeong • Mobility/connectivity modelling
KAIST, Korea • Anti-spam and Sybil attacks
Mark Crovella
Boston University, USA
Dimitri Krioukov SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
CAIDA, USA All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical
Matthieu Latapy soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers will be published by ACM and placed in the
UPMC/LIP6, France ACM Digital Library.
Vito Latora
University of Catania, Italy Submissions must be in English, no longer than 6 pages and in PDF format, and using the ACM
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UIUC, USA Type 1 fonts (scalable), not Type 3 (bit-mapped). All fonts must be embedded within the PDF file.
Clemence Magnien
UPMC/LIP6, France In order to allow papers to appear in the ACM Digital Library, authors of accepted papers will be
Jose Mendes asked to submit, together with their camera-ready, an ACM proceedings copyright transfer form
University of Aveiro, Portugal (http://www.acm.org/publications/copyright_form). To ensure timely publication of the accepted
Richard Mortier papers by ACM, we require authors to submit their camera-ready paper as well as the copyright
Vipadia Ltd., UK transfer form by no later than June 5. Failure to send the camera-ready and copyright transfer on
Raul Mondragon time will prevent the publication of the paper and its inclusion in the ACM Digital Library.
University of London, UK
Andrew Moore The paper submission site is located at: http://www.simplexconf.net/
University of Cambridge, UK
Nadine Peyrieras
INAF-CNRS, France
Michael Rabbat IMPORTANT DATES
McGill University, Canada
Nishanth Sastry
University of Cambridge, UK
Georgios Smaragdakis Paper Submission April 30, 2009 Sponsored by
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Authors Notification May 29, 2009
Steve Uhlig
T-labs/TU Berlin, Germany Camera-ready June 5, 2009
Walter Willinger Registration Deadline June 10, 2009
AT&T research, USA
Workshop Date July 1, 2009
Shi Zhou
University College London, UK