The Second European Network Intelligence Conference
ENIC 2015 September 21-22, 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
http://enic.cse.bth.se/

All speakers will be exempted from the conference fee (one per accepted submission)!

We are more and more surrounded by different kinds of networks, interconnected systems and vast amounts of interrelated data. Various web collaborative portals, blogs, wikis, video publishing services (youtube), ecommerce sites (eBay), social networking sites (Facebook) sensor networks, smart phones users exchanging multimedia as well as IT systems collaborating with one another in most organisations are good example of networks that require new adequate analytical methods.
The aim of the annual European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC) is to create an open premier forum to exchange knowledge and experience as well as to discuss recent advances, theories, and techniques related to both various types of networks and intelligent analytical computational methods.
Every edition of the conference will focus on only few selected more specific scientific domains - tracks. The second event will include two such tracks: Social network and social media analysis, and Intelligent Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks. The tracks will bring together the research groups from the specified disciplines, along with many of the e-commerce companies interested in applications of the intelligent tools in their products. The track will enable researchers and practitioners to present their latest research and identify challenges in recommendation systems. The special interest will be focused on the design cooperation platform for academia and industry.
Initially, the conference will be led and hosted by the ENGINE Centre and partnering organisations and substantially supported by the Seventh Framework Programme, however, we hope to create a wider active ENIC community for the future
Since ENIC 2015 is sponsored by the ENGINE Project, authors of up to 50 best accepted papers will be registered free of charge; one author per paper. The ENGINE Centre will cover their participation, proceedings costs, coffee brakes and banquet but only if they will present in person their accepted paper during the conference. It does not include travel and accommodation costs.
Key dates
Full paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2015
Camera-ready papers due: July 15, 2015
Conference: September 21-22, 2015 (Monday-Tuesday)

Keynote Speakers
Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA
Matteo Magnani, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Felix S. Wu, UC Davis, USA

ENIC 2015 Tracks

(1) Social network and social media analysis (SNA / SMA)

Track Chairs:
Piotr Bródka, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Przemysław Kazienko, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
List of topics (the authors are not strictly limited to this list):
• Application of social network and social media analysis
• Big data approach to SNA / SMA
• Blog and microblog analysis
• Collaborative query processing and optimization
• Community discovery and analysis in large scale social networks
• Contextual social network analysis
• Crowd sourcing
• Cultural, anthropological and political aspects in SNA / SMA
• Data acquisition and social relationship extraction for SNA/SMA
• Data integration and identification in SNA / SMA
• Data models for social networks and social media
• Data protection and security issues in SNA / SMA
• Deep web SNA / SMA
• Dynamics of networks and social communities
• Dynamics and patterns in social media data
• Economic impact of social network discovery
• Efficiency in SNA / SMA
• Evaluation of SNA / SMA
• Evolution of social networks and social media
• Exchange networks
• Graph-based algorithms for SNA/SMA
• Impact of social networks on recommendations systems (overlaps the second track)
• Information diffusion and spread of influence in social networks
• Knowledge networks
• Large graph and parallel processing
• Machine learning methods for SNA / SMA
• Measures, similarity and dissimilarity in SNA / SMA
• Multi-agent based social network and social media modelling and analysis
• Multiple / multilayer social network analysis
• Multiple social network interaction and multiple media system correlation
• Outlier and misbehaviour detection in SNA/SMA
• Pattern discovery on the web data and in large organizations
• Personalization in social services (overlaps the second track)
• Privacy and security in SNA / SMA
• Reasoning fort social and media data
• Recommender systems in establishment of social relations (overlaps the second track)
• Scalability of social networking, search algorithms and social media data processing
• Sentiment analysis
• Signed graphs and multigraphs in SNA / SMA
• Simulations and computational models for social networks
• Social intelligence
• Social role identification
• Social search analysis
• Spatial networks
• Statistical modelling of large networks
• Trust networks and evolution of trust
• Visual representation of dynamic social networks and social media evolution
• Wikipedia-based data analysis

(2) Intelligent Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks (IMOCN)

Track Chairs:
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wrocław University of Technology
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano

Recent developments in communications and networking technologies have reached unprecedented level, however still many new challenges and opportunities are emerging. Starting from the physical layer with new approaches of Elastic Optical Network, 5G mobile, MANET and VANET technologies up to recent ideas in higher network layers including software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) trigger the need to deploy new intelligent methods to optimize the network resources. Among the most vital optimization goals for communication networks of various types, the following must be enumerated: OPEX costs, CAPEX costs, energy efficiency, scalability, delay, survivability, security.
To ensure complete coverage of the advances in field, the Intelligent Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks track solicits original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Metaheuristics for optimization of communication networks including tabu search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, ant algorithms, GRASP, artificial bee colony
• Combinatorial and discrete optimization algorithms
• Integer linear programming modeling
• Graph theory
• Greedy algorithms
• Random algorithms
• Column generation methods
• Elastic Optical Networks
• Optical network architectures, design and performance evaluation
• Traffic grooming
• Optical networks in support of Grid, Cloud Computing and Storage
• Mobile networking, mobility and nomadicity
• 5G networks
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications
• Sensor networks
• Mobile ad hoc network (MANETs)
• Wireless mesh networks
• Smart grids
• Next-Generation access networking
• Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)
• Delay tolerant networks
• Congestion and admission control
• Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Overlay networks
• Peer-to-peer networks
• Cloud computing
• Unicast routing
• Anycast routing
• Multicast routing
• Multihoming
• Content-oriented networks
• Network survivability and resilience
• Switch and router performance
• Packet scheduling
• Intrusion and attack detection/prevention
• Multi-layer networks,
• Energy efficiency
• Green communications
• Context and location aware networking

Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ENIC 2015 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for Web of Science indexing as well as EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

Submission Instruction
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics from both tracks are solicited. The papers will reviewed by a minimum of two subject experts – Programme Committee members. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages using the IEEE CPS two-column template. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enic2015 with additional selection of the right tracks. IEEE will retain the copyright for accepted papers and the IEEE copyright form found at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/copyrightmain.html will therefore have to be completed. Papers will be accepted for the conference based on the reviewers comments on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. If the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at least one author register as a full conference participant.

Organisation
Local chair, incl. registration and submission: Fredrik Erlandsson fredrik.erlandsson@bth.se