Workshop on Algorithmic and Structural
Aspects of Complex Networks and
Applications (WASACNA 2016)

The network science is an interdisciplinary, very active research area that blends rigorous theory
and experiments in analyzing structure and behavior of real-world complex networks. Computer
simulations are often an inseparable part of such research. Thus, the design, implementation and
evaluation of efficient or advisable algorithms play its important role in the network science.
     The Workshop on Algorithmic and Structural Aspects of Complex Networks and Applications
(WASACNA 2016) follows a similar event from two years ago, WAACNA 2014, held in Jasná and
collocated with ITAT 2014. The objectives of this year’s workshop are to provide a forum on cur-
rent trends of the mentioned research and present contributions directly connected to applications
addressing real-world problems. Besides well-established topics (e.g. the utilization of networks in
transportation, the community detection in complex networks), this year’s contributions also include
emerging areas, such as the analysis of eye-tracking data via networks, network application in ge-
nealogy or medicine.
     All submissions were evaluated according to their originality, quality, and relevance with respect
to the main research topic of the workshop. Each submission was reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Thereafter, 5 regular papers were accepted by Program Committee members out of 8 contributions.
Apart from the regular contributed talks, the workshop included the invited presentation by L’uboš
Buzna. All regular papers and also the extended abstract of the invited presentation are included in
the proceedings of the workshop. Some submissions which have not been chosen as regular papers
are published separately as abstracts.
     The Program Committee members are grateful to all the authors who submitted their papers for
consideration and to all additional reviewers who assisted the Program Committee in the evaluation
process. The committee wish to thank also the ITAT Program Committee chair Broňa Brejová and
all the members of the Organizing Committee. The conference management system EasyChair was
used to handle the submissions and to assist with the management of referee reports during the
evaluation process.

Martin Nehéz and Marek Lelovský
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Workshop organizers




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Program Committee
Nad’a Krivoňáková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Marek Lelovský, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Martin Nehéz (chair), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Soňa Pavlíková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Imrich Vrt’o, Slovak Academy of Sciences