One-day workshop after
final day of the main conference COMPLEX’2009
The First
International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX’2009) will be held in Shanghai,
China, on 23-25 February, 2009. You are cordially invited to submit a paper to our Satellite Workshop "Complex Engineering Networks" co-located with
COMPLEX’2009. All are welcome to attend this Workshop.
Program Committee Chair
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Guanrong Chen Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow Department of Electronic Engineering Kowloon, Hong Kong
SAR P.R. China Email: gchen@ee.cityu.edu.hk |
Program
Committee
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Xiaofan Wang Professor Department of Automation Shanghai Jiao Tong
University Shanghai 200240 P.R. China Email : xfwang@sjtu.edu.cn |
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Xiang Li Professor Department of Electronic Engineering Shanghai 200433 P.R. China Email: lix@fudan.edu.cn |
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October
31, 2008
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Deadline
for submitting full papers |
Important Notes on Submissions
² All workshop papers should adopt the same page format as that for the main conference papers and they will be published in the same proceedings together with the main conference papers. Please note that the page limit is NOT necessarily the same as that for the main conference paper, so you may slightly extend your paper length if necessary.
² All submissions for this workshop would be through ICST online system at www.cocus.eu (the same submission system of the main conference COMPLEX’2009, please follow the conference submission guidelines at http://www.complex-sys.org/submission.shtml).
Workshop Introduction
Large engineering networks, such as the Internet and VLSI circuits, are
very complex. Many natural or
man-made systems can be
described by the models of complex
networks, which are structures consisting of nodes (or vertices) connected by
links (or edges). In fact, complex networks are
everywhere in the real world. More examples are neural systems, food webs,
metabolic networks, ecological networks, power grids, and wireless
communication networks.
The
ubiquity of complex networks in science and technology has led to a series of important research problems
concerning how the network structure facilitates and constraints the network
dynamical behaviors, which have largely been neglected in the studies of
traditional disciplines. For
example, what is the most
efficient and robust architecture for a particular integrated circuit array or
an information network under an
uncertain and time-varying environment? How do cascading failures propagate
throughout a large power transmission grid or a huge cellular neural network (CNN)? All
kinds of these problems are confronting and confusing us everyday, which demand answers and
solutions from scientists and engineers.
The past ten
years have witnessed the new discoveries of small-world and scale-free
connectivity patterns in many natural and artificial complex networking systems
attract very wide attention on the complexity of network topology, yielding
fruitful results which enrich and deepen the understanding of real-world
complex networks, and put an important step forward from the random graph
theory built by Erdos and Renyi. And, it is well known now that the nontrivial
topological patterns of complex networks significantly affect the emergent
network behaviors, leading to a fascinating set of common problems concerning
how the complexity of network topologies determines the collective performance
and functions of complex (engineering) network systems.
The
main purpose of this workshop is to further promote this important research
topic on complex networks, with emphasis on the theoretical research and
practical applications on complex engineering networks. The invited speakers
are supposed to bring their exciting presentations to the workshop, covering
the topics including but not limited to network control, network
synchronization, the backbone of the Internet, the cost optimization of communication
networks, network visualization, the computer virus spreading on the Internet,
biological engineering network, and etc.
In summary,
complex network has been an active research field over the world after the
great development over the last decade. This is the case not only in deeper and
wider theoretical studies but also in many newly found real-world applications.
This workshop aims at
promoting the latest researches and applications on complex engineering
networks, which serves as a representative collection and frontier exchange of
this fast developing field.
Workshop
Program
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08:30-08:35 |
Workshop Opening |
Guanrong Chen City University of Hong Kong |
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08:35-10:15 |
Morning Session 1: Modelling and
analysis of complex networks - I |
Session Chair: Xiaofan Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
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10:15-10:40 |
Tea Break |
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10:40-11:55 |
Morning Session 2: Modelling and analysis of
complex networks - II |
Session Chair: Zengqiang Chen Nankai University |
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12:00-13:45 |
Lunch Time |
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13:45-15:00 |
Afternoon Session 1: Epidemics and failure
spreadings on complex networks |
Session Chair: Michael Z.Q. Chen Leicester University |
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15:00-15:30 |
Tea Break |
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15:30-17:10 |
Afternoon Session 2: Control and coordination
of complex networking systems |
Session Chair: Xiang Li Fudan University |
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17:10 |
Workshop Closing |
Guanrong Chen City University of Hong Kong |
Note: Each paper is offered totally 25mins with 18 mins for presentation and 7 mins for free Q & A.
Morning
Session 1: Modelling and analysis of complex
networks - I
Session Chair: Xiaofan Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
08:35-09:00. Modeling and Dynamical Analysis of Molecular Networks
Ruiqi Wang, Zengrong Liu (Shanghai University)
09:00-:09:25. Networks that optimize a
trade-off between efficiency and dynamical resilience
Markus Brede, Bert de Vries (CSIRO CMAR; Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving)
09:25-09:50. Power law modelling of internet topology
Shi Zhou (University College London)
09:50-10:15. Collective Aggregation Pattern
Dynamics Control via Attractive/ Repulsive Function
Michael Chen, Zhao Cheng, Hai-Tao Zhang, Tao Zhou, Ian Postlethwaite
(Leicester University; Temple University; Huazhong University of Science and Technology; University of Science and Technology of China; Leicester University)
Morning
Session 2: Modelling and analysis of complex
networks –II
Session Chair: Zengqiang Chen (Nankai University)
10:40-11:05. Transforming Time Series into Complex Networks
Michael Small, Jie Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
11:05-11:30. Observing Stock Market Fluctuation in Networks of Stocks
Jing Liu, Chi Tse, Francis Lau, Keqing He
(Wuhan University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Wuhan University, China)
11:30-11:55. Visual Analysis of Complex
Networks and Community Structure
Bin Wu (Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications)
Afternoon
Session 1: Epidemics and failure spreadings on
complex networks
Session Chair: Michael Z.Q. Chen (Leicester University)
13:45-14:10. Modeling Failure Propagation in Large-scale Engineering Networks
Markus Schläpfer, Jonathan L. Shapiro (ETH Zurich; University of Manchester)
14:10-14:35. Modelling of epidemics with a
generalized nonlinear incidence on complex networks
Maoxing Liu, Jiong Ruan (Fudan University)
14:35-15:00. Model and Dynamic Behavior of
Malware Propagation over Wireless Sensor Networks
Yu-Rong Song, Guo-Ping Jiang (Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications)
Afternoon
Session 2: Control and coordination of complex
networking systems
Session Chair: Xiang Li (Fudan University)
15:30-15:55. Eigenvalue based Stability Analysis for Asymmetric Complex Dynamical Networks
Zengqiang Chen, Linying Xiang (Nankai University, City University of Hong Kong)
15:55-16:20. Synchronization in Gradient Complex Networks
Xingang Wang (Zhejiang University)
16:20-16:45. Collective Behavior
Coordination and Aggregation with Low-Cost Communication
Hai-Tao Zhang, Michael Chen, Tao
Zhou, Zhao Cheng, Pin-Ze Yu
(Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Leicester University, University of Science and Technology of
China, Temple University, Chinese Naval University of Engineering)
16:45-17:10 Synchronization stability of coupled Near-Identical oscillator networks
Jie Sun, Erik M. Bollt, Takashi Nishikawa (Clarkson University)
All are very
welcome! J