Advances of Network Structures for Cooperative Working

Dear Colleagues,

An obvious trend that emerged in the current research and development is the significant advantage of applying network structures for the cooperative working. It shows the potential and power at all levels of cooperative applications convincingly. The structure of the networks seen here is very general in both symmetric and asymmetric manner. This special issue concentrates on the symmetric characteristic of the networks and its influence in the performance for a wide range of cooperative applications. The applications include the cooperative work in the well-known internet and the social networks, specific networks such as neural networks, sensor networks, even the basic convolutional networks embedded into many basic algorithms.

This special issue is calling for all the contributions that apply the network structure both symmetric and asymmetric in different application areas at all the levels with the analysis of the impact of the symmetry in the network structure. It intends to show the potential of the network structure from macro to micro level for cooperative working and cooperative task accomplishment related to the symmetry characteristic. All the up-to-date related contributions are welcome to submit.

Prof. Dr. Yuhua Luo
Dr. Pilar Fuster Parra
Guest Editors

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• network structures
• impact of symmetry in networks
• cooperative work
• internet
• social network
• sensor network
• neural network
• Internet of Things
• convolutional neural network
• energy network
• multi-cell, multi-unit structures