Welcome!
The Eighth IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks will be held in San Fransisco, CA, USA during April 10-15, 2016 in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
NetSciCom 2016 is a half day workshop scheduled in the morning session on Monday, April 11, 2016.
Scope
Network Science attracts the attention of a large number of researchers from across various disciplines, mainly due to its applicability in modelling the structure and dynamics of a wide variety of large-scale complex networks, ranging from genetic pathways and ecological networks to the Internet, WWW, peer-to-peer networks, blogs and online social networks, etc.
Moreover, Network science has compelling applications in the field of (say) computer communication networks, electric power grid networks, transportation networks, social networks, and biological networks.
In the context of the digital-world, the communication and social networks have contributed immensely in generating Big Data pools. Data (say) logged from the Internet, p2p network, online social networks, scientific citations, protein interaction takes naturally the form of networks, often with a temporal/dynamic dimension. When this big data meets the recent advances of network science, decision makers gain an unprecedented insight from the emergent properties, constraints, phase transitions, and so on, that were previously hidden.
Recently, data analytics techniques are used to learn the dynamics of massively large complex networks (e.g., link prediction, community formation) generated from large data. This has a substantial impact on the design of efficient, social aware communication systems.
Side by side, to design efficient large-scale communication networks of the future, it is imperative to understand the interdependency between the underlying physical network and the information networks that it intends to support. A deeper understanding of such interdependency can only be achieved by closer interaction between network scientists, communication network designers, and social and behavioral scientists.
The goal of this workshop is to a provide a forum where this diverse group of researchers can come together and exchange ideas that will lead to deeper insights into the design of robust, efficient and complex communication networks of the future.
Call for papers
In this workshop, we call for papers addressing the fundamental concepts of network science and also discuss the potential research directions and applications in computer communication and social network. We aim to gather together scientists and researchers conducting research on the network science, computer communication, data mining, data science and so on, with the stakeholders responsible for data-driven research. The accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2016 workshop proceedings and appear in IEEE Xplore.
The workshop’s focus lies at the intersection of network science and communication network design.
This workshop welcomes contributions from researchers working on the following topics of interest, including, but not limited to:
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: Sun, December 27, 2015
- Acceptance notification:
February 5th, 2016
February 16th, 2016 - Camera ready: Tue, March 1, 2016
- Program announcement: Fri, March 11th, 2016
Submission Details
Papers should contain original material, i.e., that has not been previously published or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Communications Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. The accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2016 workshop proceedings and appear in IEEE Xplore.
Use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found here. If the paper is typeset in LaTeX, please use an unmodified version of the LaTeX template IEEEtran.cls version 1.8, and use the preamble: \documentclass[10pt, conference, letterpaper]{IEEEtran}
Prospective authors should submit their papers though EDAS. The submission link is here.
Keynote Speaker
Ashish Goel, Professor, Management Science and Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University, is the Keynote Speaker of NetSciCom 2016.
Title: Efficient Algorithms for Personalized Search and Discovery
Abstract: While Internet search has made great strides in the last two
decades, the amount of network based personalization in search is
still minimal. One reason is the lack of algorithms that can offer
personalized search results at scale. In this talk, we will present a
series of algorithms for efficient personalization based on network
measures of proximity. We will first describe a random walk based
algorithm for generating personalized recommendations. We will then
outline an algorithm for social search based on network distance, and
finally, an algorithm for answering Personalized PageRank queries on a
directed graph that is suitable for use in a search algorithm. We will
demonstrate the performance of these algorithms on a large social
network, running on an open source graph library developed by Teapot.
This represents joint work with P. Lofgren, S. Banerjee, and C.
Seshadhri; P. Lofgren, S. Banerjee; B. Bahmani; B. Bahmani and A.
Chowdhury; and P. Gupta, J. Lin, A. Sharma, D. Wang, and R. Zadeh.
Short bio:
Ashish Goel is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering
and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and a
member of Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical
Engineering. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in
1999, and was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Southern California from 1999 to 2002. His research
interests lie in the design, analysis, and applications of algorithms;
current application areas of interest include social networks,
Internet commerce, and large scale data processing. Professor Goel is
a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan faculty fellowship (2004-06), a
Terman faculty fellowship from Stanford, an NSF Career Award
(2002-07), and a Rajeev Motwani mentorship award (2010). He was a
co-author on the paper that won the best paper award at WWW 2009, and
was a research fellow at Twitter from 2009-14 where he designed and
prototyped Twitter's monetization and personalization algorithms.
Professor Goel is also Principal Scientist at Teapot, Inc.
Visit his homepage for more information.
Workshop Schedule
| 08:30 AM - 08:35 AM | Opening |
| 08:35 AM - 09:15 AM |
SESSION 1
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| 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM |
Keynote TalkTitle: Efficient Algorithms for Personalized Search and DiscoveryAshish Goel (Stanford University, USA) |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM |
SESSION 2
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| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Closing comments |
Committee
- Technical Program Chairs
- Bivas Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
- Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
- Ravi Sundaram, Northeastern University, USA
- Steering Committee
- Andrea Richa, Chair, Arizona State University, USA
- Katia Obraczka, Member, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Guoliang Xue, Member, Arizona State University, USA
- Arun Sen, Member, Arizona State University, USA
- General Chairs
- Ram Ramanathan, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
- Arun Sen, Arizona State University, USA
- Program Committee
- Prithwish Basu, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
- Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska, USA
- Hocine Cherifi, Université de Bourgogne, France
- Pradipta De, SUNY Korea, Korea
- Jean-Charles Delvenne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Markus Esch, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE), Germany
- Tanmoy Chakraborty, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
- Jean-Loup Guillaume, Université de La Rochelle, France
- Saptarshi Ghosh, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
- Renaud Lambiotte, Department of Mathematics/Naxys, Université de Namur, Belgium
- Matthieu Latapy, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Clemence Magnien, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Prasenjit Mitra, QCRI, Qatar
- Sayan Pathak, Microsoft R&D, USA
- Joydeep Chandra, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Luis E C Rocha, Karolinska Institute, Sweden & Department of Mathematics, University of Namur, Belgium.
- Camille Roth, CNRS/Humboldt-Universität, Germany
- William Liu, Auckland University of Technology
- Sudipta Saha, National University of Singapore
- Nishant Shastry, King's College London, England
- Ingo Scholtes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Sourav Dandapat, KAIST, Korea
- Lionel Tabourier, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Web Chair
- Satadal Sengupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Accepted Papers
- A Machine Learning Approach to Edge Type Inference in Internet AS Graphs
Jinu Susan Varghese and Lu Ruan (Iowa State University, USA) - Average Degree Estimation under Ego-Centric Sampling Design
Emrah Cem and Kamil Sarac (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) - Computing Road Signatures from Cell Sequences with Minimum Inconsistencies
Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Matthew Andrews (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Jin Cao (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA) - Friendships in the Air: Integrating Social Links into Wireless Network Modeling, Routing, and Analysis
Zhuo Lu (University of Memphis, USA); Yalin E Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA); Yi Shi (Intelligent Automation Inc., USA) - Revisiting AS-Level Graph Reduction
Erik Rye (United States Naval Academy, USA); Justin P Rohrer and Robert Beverly (Naval Postgraduate School, USA) - Trust Based Secure Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Thomas Babbitt (RPI, USA); Boleslaw K Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Congratulations to all the authors!
Instructions for Authors of Accepted Papers
The camera-ready submission deadline for NetSciCom 2016 is 1st March 2016, 23:59 EST (hard deadline). Please ensure that your final manuscript is submitted on EDAS before the deadline.
Registration of at least one author is mandatory before the final version can be upoaded. Click here to register.
Detailed guidelines on camera-ready submission can be found here.