📢 CFP – Unlocking Complexity: Cutting-Edge Research in Networks, AI, Biology & Beyond

[Hocine Cherifi]

📍 Part of the France’s International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS 2025)
📆 May 21–23, 2025 | Bordeaux, France

🔬 Exploring Complexity Across Disciplines

The French Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS 2025) invites submissions to its workshop program, covering a broad range of topics at the intersection of network science, artificial intelligence, blockchain, biological growth, business dynamics, and visualization in complexity science. These workshops provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions and the exploration of emerging research in complex systems.

We welcome full papers, short papers, and extended abstracts that contribute to the understanding and application of complexity science across various domains.

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🛠 List of Workshops at FRCCS 2025

🎨 Beauty in Complexity – A Visual Exhibition

This exhibition invites researchers to showcase stunning scientific visualizations, network representations, AI-generated art, and data-driven images that reveal the hidden beauty of complexity in science.

Topics include:
✔ Data-driven visualizations of complex systems
✔ Network representations in science & technology
✔ AI-generated complexity art

For details, visit: Beauty in Complexity Webpage

📩 Contact: Benjamin Renoust, Median Technologies ren...@gmail.com

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🔗 Workshop on Complex Networks and Blockchain for Trusted Connectivity

This workshop explores the intersection of blockchain technology and complex network science, focusing on security, trust, and decentralization in distributed systems.

Topics include:
✔ Blockchain for criminal and terrorist network analysis
✔ AI-driven graph mining in blockchain transactions
✔ Network resilience in decentralized systems

For details, visit: Complex Networks and Blockchain for Trusted Connectivity Website

🔗 Contact: Anamaria Ficara, University of Messina, Italy afi...@unime.it

 

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📉 Workshop on Complex Network Sparsification

Large-scale networks require efficient sparsification techniques to extract meaningful structures while reducing computational complexity. This workshop addresses theory, methods, and applications of network sparsification.

Topics include:
✔ Edge importance metrics and sparsification algorithms
✔ Applications in social, biological, and transportation networks
✔ Learning-based models for graph sparsification

For details, visit: Workshop on Complex Network Sparsification

🔗 Contact: Hamida Seba, LIRIS, France hamid...@univ-lyon1.fr

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📊 Workshop on Decoding Success in Business and Economics

This workshop examines patterns of success and failure in business, industries, and economies, using complexity science, AI, and network analytics.

Topics include:
✔ Predictive models for startup growth and failure
✔ AI-driven forecasting for economic success
✔ Influence of innovation diffusion and knowledge networks

For details, visit: Workshop on Decoding Success in Business and Economics Web page

🔗 Contact: Fabian Braesemann, University of Oxford fabian.b...@sbs.ox.ac.uk

 

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🌱 Workshop on Complex Systems in Biological Growth and Morphogenesis

Biological growth processes are governed by self-organization, emergent behaviors, and multi-scale interactions. This workshop focuses on modeling, computation, and experimental approaches to morphogenesis.

Topics include:
✔ Biomechanics and biochemical signaling in growth
✔ Nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in biological systems
✔ Computational models for tissue growth and development

For details, visit: Unraveling the Complexity of Biological Growth and Morphogenesis Web page

🔗 Contact: Xinyi Liu, Northwestern University, xinyil...@u.northwestern.edu

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🤖 Workshop on Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence

AI and deep learning models exhibit emergent properties, self-organization, and complex multi-agent interactions. This workshop explores theoretical and computational insights from complexity science in AI research.

Topics include:
✔ Multi-scale interactions in artificial intelligence architectures
✔ Network science for AI interpretability and explainability
✔ Complexity-driven approaches to multi-agent systems and collective intelligence

For details, visit: Workshop on Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence Web Page

🔗 Contact : Christophe Cruz, Université Bourgogne Europe, cc...@ube.fr

 

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📝 Submission Guidelines

✔ Full Papers (12 pages)
✔ Short Papers (8 pages)
✔ Extended Abstracts (3-4 pages)

📖 Proceedings & Special Issue

Accepted papers will be presented at the workshops. Their inclusion in the official FRCCS 2025 proceedings, published with Springer is subject to final approval by the conference organizers. Selected high-quality submissions may also be invited for publication in special issues of partner journals.

📅 Important Dates

🗓 Submission Deadline: March 20, 2025
📢 Notification of Acceptance: April 17, 2025
🖨 Camera-Ready Deadline: April 30, 2025
🎤 Workshop Dates: May 21–23, 2025

For details, visit: FRCCS 2025 Website

Join us at COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025

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Hocine CHERIFI 

University of Burgundy Franche-Comté

Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne - ICB UMR 6303 CNRS

Editor in Chief Applied Network Science Plos Complex Systems

Editorial Board member PLOS One, IEEE ACCESS, Scientific Reports,

Journal of Imaging, Quality and Quantity, Computational Social Networks,

Complex Systems