Computation in Complex Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Complex networks, in recent years, are increasingly attracting the attention of researchers from many different domains, such as physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, engineering, and computer science, among others. Complex networks are able to model a wide variety of structures that support the functioning of daily life, including high technology networks, the Internet, and communication, chemical, neural, social, political and financial networks. Understanding how complex systems behave is thus an imperative for many different fields due to their interwoven and multidisciplinary nature and inherent complexity.

This Special Issue aims at collecting original and high-quality papers within the research field of complex network computation. When investigating complex systems, several relevant questions arise such as how information/viruses spread, how groups of nodes/diseases form and evolve, and how to detect and improve robustness over their non-trivial topological structure, just to provide some examples. Papers analyzing transportation infrastructures, communication networks, financial networks, political networks, power grid systems, ecosystems, bioinformatics and network medicine aspects are welcome. We also invite papers conceptualizing complex systems through theoretical frameworks.

Prof. Dr. Clara Pizzuti
Dr. Annalisa Socievole
Guest Editors

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