Modern Big Data increasingly appears in the form of complex networks and graphs. Examples include social networks, citation networks, communication networks, the World Wide Web. Researchers make use of network-based solutions for solving problems for diverse disciplines, including social mining, transportation, bioinformatics, computational science, health care and intelligence analysis. However, the massive sizes, multiple types of entities (users, documents, items etc.), user behaviours and relations between entities that nowadays characterise most networks, have increased the challenge of methodologies that analyse and mine complex networks. To address these challenges, machine learning models are often used for analysing and mining large-scale networks. Furthermore, machine learning techniques enable novel methods of describing generative models for networks structures, dynamics and communities
We are soliciting novel and original research contributions related to machine learning-based approaches to building, analysing and mining complex networks.