Complex Networks & Their Applications : Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications: Complex Networks 2023, Volume 4

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the XII International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2023). The carefully selected papers cover a wide range of theoretical topics such as network embedding and network geometry; community structure, network dynamics; diffusion, epidemics and spreading processes; machine learning and graph neural networks as well as all the main network applications, including social and political networks; networks in finance and economics; biological networks and technological networks.

Luis M. Rocha is the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where he leads the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI) lab. He is also Senior Fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia, co-director of the Consortium for Social and Biomedical Complexity between Binghamton University and Indiana University, and a founding partner of the international Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences. He has been the director of the NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training Program in Complex Networks and Systems, and Professor of Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, where he was a member of the advisory council of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, and core faculty of the Cognitive Science Program. Dr. Rocha is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a Visiting Professor a the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Aix-Marseille University, France as well as the Neuroscience Program, at the Champalimaud Foundation and the NOVA School of Business and Economics in Portugal. His research is on complex networks & systems, computational & systems biology, and computational intelligence. He received his Ph.D in Systems Science in 1997 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. From 1998 to 2004, he was a permanent staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he founded and led a Complex Systems Modeling Team from 1998 to 2002 and was part of the Santa Fe Institute research community. He has organized major conferences in the field, such as the Tenth International Conferenceon the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X), the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), and Complex Networks 2019-2023. He has published many articles in scientific and technology journals and has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards. At Indiana University, he has received the Indiana University School of Informatics & Computing, Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2015 after developing the complex systems training program and syllabi for several courses. 

Hocine Cherifi received the Ph.D. from the National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, in 1984. He has been a professor of computer science at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, since 1999. Before moving to Dijon, he held faculty positions with Rouen University and Jean Monnet University, France. He has also held visiting positions with Yonsei University, South Korea; the University of Western Australia, Australia; the National Pintung University, Taiwan; and Galatasaray University, Turkey. He has published over 200 scientific papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include computer vision and complex networks. He held leading positions in more than 15 international conference organizations as the general chair and the program chair. He has served on more than 100 program committees. He is the Founder of the International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications. He is a member of the editorial board of Computational Social Networks, PLOS One, IEEE Access, Journal of Imaging, Complex Systems, Quality and Quantity, and Scientific Reports. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Applied Network Science and PLOS Complex Systems. 

Chantal CHERIFI received her PhD in Computer science from Corsica University, France, in 2011. Since 2014, she has worked as an Associate Professor at the DISP laboratory at the University of Lyon2, France. Her main research interests are information systems agility and big data management with applications on enterprise information systems and smart cities, using complex networks, ontologies, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems tools. She is involved in several International conference organizations: Complex Networks (Program Chair & Local Committee 2017, Poster Chair 2016), CompleNet 2016 (Poster Chair), PLM 2015 (Local Committee), and DICTAP 2011 (Local Committee). She serves as a member of International Conferences Program committees (Complex Networks [2017, 2016], CompletNet 2016, Complexis 2016, ISCRAM-med [2017, 2016, 2015], CSCESM 2014, SITIS [2015, 2014, 2013, 2012], ICIEIS [2013, 2011]) and Journal referee (IJCIM 2016, EPL 2015, Scientific Reports - Nature 2015) She is a member of EU Erasmus-Mundus programs (SmartLink (2012-2016), cLink program (2012-2016)). Her local responsibilities include being a Committee Lab member (Since 2016)and Lab seminar coorganizer (Since 2014). 

Murat Donduran is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, YILDIZ Technical University Istanbul Türkiye, where he is the Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences. He is also the Board member of in Turkish Economic Foundation. His research is on microeconomics, computational economics, firm dynamics and game theory. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye, and a Ph.D. in Economics in 2000 from the YILDIZ Technical University. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member in the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at the YILDIZ Technical University. He has organized several conferences in the field such as YILDIZ International Conference on Social Sciences, the Annual International Conference on Social Sciences (2016-2020), and the International Conference on Economics (IceTea) 2019-2023. He has published many articles in scientific journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Review of Industrial Organization, Physica A, and North American Journal of Economics and Finance.