NSAIBHI Workshop Rationale

Network Science is a new paradigm of study to understand complex systems including biological interactions. Pharmacology and drug discovery leverage network biology advances for a better understanding of the complex interactions between drugs, targets and disease, for designing new molecule, and for identifying drugs to be successfully repurposed. More recently, graph neural networks expressed to be a potential game changer in deciphering the inherent complex interaction patterns in complex networks.

The workshop and the special issue intend to highlight novel research in the area of network science, network biology and network medicine coupled with representation learning and its application to biology, medicine, and pharmacology. The focus is on, but not limited to, the following broad areas:

1. Network Representation Learning

2. Graph Convolution Neural Network

3. Network Embedding
4. Heterogeneous network integration

5. Network Alignment

4. Disease module detection

5. Network Drug Discovery and Repurposing

Important Dates

• Electronic submission of full papers: Aug, 21, 2022

• Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 21, 2022

• Main conference Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 12, 2022

• Workshop Paper Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 12, 2022

• Conference: Dec. 6-9, 2022


Proceedings

All workshop accepted papers and posters will appear in the IEEE Conference Proceedings

A special issue on a Scopus Indexed Journal is planned, negotiations are in progress, journals will be communicated in a upcoming announcement.

Workshop Organizers

• Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy, email: hguzzi AT unicz.it
• Swarup Roy, Sikkim University, India, email: sroy01 AT cus.ac.in
• Manuela Petti, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, email: manuela.petti AT uniroma1.it
• Paolo Tieri, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, email: paolo.tieri AT cnr.it