THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB BASED COMMUNITIES (IJWBC)

Special Issue on: Community Structure in Complex Networks

Network Science is a powerful paradigm to better understand the complex systems encountered in many different disciplines such as physics, sociology, biology and computer science. One of the most relevant features of networked systems is community structure. Despite the tremendous effort of a large interdisciplinary community of scientists working on this subject over the past few years to characterize, model, and analyze communities in complex network is still a very hard problem that needs more investigations. Therefore, the primary goal of this special issue is to showcase the cutting edge research advances on community structures in complex network, in order to provide a landscape of research progresses and application potentials in related areas. Papers, of a broad nature, on various aspects of community structure with strong algorithmic innovations, but also application-oriented works are solicited. Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Community models in networks
• Community structure evolution
• Community structure properties
• Community structure discovery
• Community and Epidemics
• Community in Economic networks
• Community and Rumor Spreading
• Community and Visual representation
• Community in Financial networks
• Community in Technology networks
• Community in Biological Systems
• Community in Social Networks

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 18 April, 2011
Acceptance notification: 30 May, 2012
Final manuscript due: 30 June, 2012
Publication: July 2012

Guest Editors:

Hocine Cherifi , Université de Bourgogne, France, hocine.cherifi@u-bourgogne.fr
Rushed Kanawati, Université Paris 13, France , rushed.kanawati@lipn.univ-paris13.fr

If you have any queries, please email us and we will be happy to address them.

Submissions:
All papers should be written in pdf and submitted via the EasyChair system, accessible at this submission page :
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=complexnetworks2012
Authors are invited to write their papers following the Author Guidelines page available at :
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijwbc