Dear Colleagues,

The International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications brings together researchers from different scientific communities working on areas related to data and network science. The variety of scientific topics ranges from network and graph theory; statistical mechanics; models of networks; community structure; geometry; visualization; financial and economic networks; social and urban networks; human behavior; epidemic models; political networks; earth sciences applications; control and synchronization; resilience and robustness; machine learning; other fields of computer science, network medicine, and neuroscience, and many others. For the seventh edition of this annual event, 421 contributions have been received from 50 countries around the world. The papers invited for submission to this Special Issue are technically beyond the scope of the contributions appearing in the conference  proceedings and include significantly new material. They reflect the latest problems, advances, and diversity within the complex network community. 

Dr. Hocine Cherifi
Dr. Chantal Cherifi
Dr. Christian Quadri
Dr. Feng Xia
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• Models of complex networks
• Structural network properties
• Complex networks and epidemics
• Community structure and discovery
• Motif discovery
• Complex networks mining
• Dynamics on and of complex networks
• Link prediction
• Multiplex networks
• Network controllability
• Synchronization in networks
• Algorithms for network analysis
• Networks visual representation
• Large-scale graph analytics
• Social reputation, influence, and trust
• Information spreading in social media
• Rumor and viral marketing
• Recommendation systems and networks
• Financial and economic networks
• Complex networks and mobility
• Biological and technological networks
• Mobile call complex networks
• Bio-informatics and earth sciences applications
• Resilience and robustness
• Networks for physical infrastructures
• Networks, smart cities, and smart grids
• Political networks
• Supply chain networks
• Complex networks and information systems
• Complex networks and CPS/IoT
• Graph signal processing
• Cognitive network science