History
The first Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (DOOCN I)
took place in Dresden, Germany, on 4th October 2007, as a
satellite workshop of the European Conference on Complex
Systems 07. The workshop received a large number of
quality submissions from authors pursuing research in
multiple disciplines, thus making the forum truly
inter-disciplinary. The total number of participants who
attended the workshop was approximately 40. There were
around 20 speakers who spoke about the dynamics on and of
different systems exhibiting a complex network structure,
from biological systems, linguistic systems, and social
systems to various technological systems like the
Internet, WWW, and peer-to-peer systems. The organizing
committee has published some of the very high quality
original submissions as an edited volume from Birkhauser,
Boston describing contemporary research position in
complex networks.
After the success of DOOCN I, the organizers launched
Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks – II (DOOCN II), a two
days satellite workshop of the European Conference of
Complex Systems 08. DOOCN II was held in Jerusalem,
Israel, on the 18th and 19th September 2008.
DOOCN III was held as a satellite of ECCS 2009 in the
University of Warwick, UK on 23rd and 24th of September.
In continuation, DOOCN IV was held again as a satellite of
ECCS 2010 in the University Institute Lisbon, Portugal on
16th September. DOOCN
V was held as a satellite of ECCS 2011 in the
University of Vienna on 14th – 15th September 2011. DOOCN
VI took place in Barcelona, as a satellite to ECCS
2013, and focused on Semiotic Dynamics in time-varying
social media. As DOOCN I, the other five DOOCN workshops
counted with a large number participants and attracted
prominent scientist in the field. DOOCN
VII, held in Lucca as a satellite to ECCS 2014,
focused on Big Data aspects. As the theme was
far from being depleted, we once again look into the
computational aspects of Big Data in DOOCN VIII.