Complex Networks & Their Applications XII: Volume 4

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.