IADIS International Workshop on Network Structure and Internet Computing 2006 (NSIC 2006)

* Workshop Theme

Networks of several types have been investigated in recent years. Not only people, but many objects are more and more interconnected in a complex manner, and this connection process is accelerated by the internet. Many networks that belong to the class of networks called small world networks can be found in the real world, such as people in a network of acquaintances, electrical power grid, and neurons in a brain. Many aspects of internet can also be treated as a network, such as internet backbone links, hyperlinks among web pages, and user communities in internet. These networks are known to be scale-free, and some properties and implications are the internet security, being highly resistant to accidental failures but unprotected against intentional attacks, and the web usability, where the average number of jumps necessary to visit any element is small.

Many of the networks in internet are growing rapidly, even exponentially, in their size. Investigations of internet computing from the network perspective are valuable for higher performance, efficiency, and security.

We welcome both practical and theoretical papers which address any of the following non-exhaustive areas of interest, in the context of internet computing:

- Application specific network structures

- Analysis of internet communities

- Measurement techniques of network structure

- Dynamics of network structure

- Performance measurement of networks

- Novel network analysis methodologies

- Network visualization

- New perspectives to investigate internet

- Network structure and internet security

- Methodologies to configure and control networks

* Call for Contributions

You are invited to submit a paper (8 pages for a full paper and 4 pages for a short paper submission) by sending it to the workshop chair (maeshiro@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp). The following electronic formats for papers are acceptable: MS Word, PostScript, and PDF. The covering letter should indicate the names of the authors, their affiliations, and addresses, faxes and emails. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

For further clarification please contact Dr Tetsuya Maeshiro on maeshiro@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp who will be pleased to answer any queries.

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (last call) - 4 September 2006
- Notification to Authors (last call) - 14 September 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call) - Until 21 September 2006
- Late Registration (last call) - After 21 September 2006

* Workshop Location
The workshop will be held in Murcia, Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS NSIC 2006 Workshop,
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: icwi_sec@iadis.org
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006/NSICC2006