Call for
Papers
IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on
Network Science
Background
IEEE Network
magazine is seeking tutorial and state-of-the-art summaries on the
application of network science to the communications sector,
including wired, wireless, Internet, financial, and special-purpose
systems such as GPS or military networks. Originated from a report by
the Committee on Network Science on Future Army Applications, Network
Science is the study of complex networks and their applications in
the physical domain (Internet, power grids, and transportation
networks), the biological domain (genetic expression networks, ant
colonies, and food web), and the social domain (governments,
businesses, and military organizations) and is receiving extensive
attention from the research community. Of particular interest to
this special issue are papers on webgraph analysis of networks,
social network applications in security and privacy of communication
networks, economic and game theoretic approaches to communications
and networks, exploring centrality measures such as clustering and
betweenness, studies of emergence properties of real networks such as
self-organized criticality, algorithms for navigating peer-peer
networks and mapping topology, architectures and activities of
networks (including social networks) in general, modeling the spread
of viral epidemics, analyzing chaotic behavior, methods for network
control and optimization with predictable outcomes, and describing
tools and techniques used in the design and analysis of networks
(like system dynamics).
Scope
This special issue will
highlight the state-of-the-art research in network science. We
welcome tutorial type papers as well as papers describing new
research activities. All submissions should be understandable and
appealing to the general audience. Authors are requested to keep in
mind that IEEE Network is a magazine. Submitted papers should contain
a substantial amount of tutorial content and minimal mathematics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Webgraph analysis of networks
- Resilience and
vulnerabilities of network infrastructures
- Emergence
properties of real networks
- Peer-to-peer network
topologies
- Epidemic spread models
- Tools and techniques to design and analyze networks
- Inference and analysis of social networks
- Social network applications to security and privacy in
communication networks
- Game theoretic approaches to
communications and networks
Manuscript
Submission
Articles should be written in a style
comprehensible and appealing to readers outside the speciality of the
article. Authors must follow the IEEE Network magazine guidelines
regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to
the "Guidelines for manuscripts" at the IEEE Network magazine web
site at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html.
Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format with a separate cover
letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations,
complete contact information (indicating the primary contact author),
a 250-word abstract, and 3-5 keywords, via e-mail to one of the guest
editors. Papers outside of the scope of this special issue will be
rejected; authors uncertain about the relevance of their paper should
inquire with the guest editors before
submission.
Schedule
Paper submissions by: May
15, 2010
Author notifications: August 1, 2010
Final
manuscripts: September 1, 2010
Publication date:
November 2010
Guest Editors
Ted G.
Lewis
Naval Postgraduate School
Email: tlewis@nps.edu
Tel:
+1 (831)-656-2830
Stefan Pickl
Universitat der Bundeswehr
Munchen
Email: stefan.pickl@unibw.de
Tel: +49 (89) 6004 2400
Benjamin R. Peek
Peek & Associates, Inc.
Email: ben@peek.com
Tel: +1 (503) 880-4027
Guoliang
(Larry) Xue
Arizona State University
Email: xue@asu.edu
Tel: +1 (480)
965-6218