-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS Datum: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:26:35 -0000 Von: Zidong Wang Zidong.Wang@brunel.ac.uk Antwort an: Zidong.Wang@brunel.ac.uk Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Computer Mathematics (Taylor and Francis) Special Issue on Complex Networks

Complex networks play an increasingly important role in our lives, including power grids, the Internet, transportation, co-operation, gene regulatory and artificial neural networks to name but a few. In fact, most of the things that drive our lives, like energy, information and even water, are delivered to us by a network structure. These networks are usually large, complex and structured in such a way that there can be important operational consequences due to the manner in which they behave over time.

The complexity of the networks poses many challenges for scientists and engineers. In particular, advanced societies have apparently become dependent on large infrastructure networks to such an extent that it is difficult to plan and control these networks securely with our current capabilities. The recent spate of power grid failures and virus attacks on the Internet illustrate the need for research on modelling, analysis of behaviours, systems theory, planning and control in such networks. Numerous fundamental questions have been addressed about the connections between network structure and (nonlinear) dynamic properties including stability, bifurcations, controllability and other observable aspects. However, some major problems have not been fully investigated, such as the behaviour of stability, synchronization and chaos control for complex networks, as well as their applications in, for example, communication and bioinformatics.

Complex networks have already become an ideal research area for control engineer, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists to manage, analyze, and interpret functional information from real-world networks. Sophisticated computer system theories and computing algorithms have been exploited or emerged in the general area of computer mathematics, such as analysis of algorithms, artificial intelligence, automata, computational complexity, computer security, concurrency and parallelism, data structures, knowledge discovery, DNA and quantum computing, randomisation, semantics, symbol manipulation, numerical analysis and mathematical software, etc. This special issue aims to bridge the gap between computer mathematics and network dynamics control. Topics include, but are not limited to the following aspects of complex networks: (1) modelling, analysis and control; (2) feature identification; (3) weighting and evolution; (4) synchronization and control; (5) Topology structure and dynamics; (6) Stability analysis; (7) robustness and fragility; (8) resource allocation and congestion control; (9) next generation of internet; (10) wireless Ad Hoc networks; (11) wireless sensor networks; and (12) biological, economic and social networks.

Submission and Review Process

This special issue will contain 5-6 papers. Potential authors should first submit an extended abstract via email to the guest editor by Feb. 28, 2007. Upon approval from the guest editor, the authors will be given the instruction on how to prepare and submit the papers.

Guest Editor:

Dr. Zidong Wang Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, U.K. Email: Zidong.Wang@brunel.ac.uk http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~csstzzw/ Schedule:

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June 2007 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 30 September 2007 Final Paper Submission: 30 November 2007 Target Publication Date: Early 2008

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