Call for Abstracts

Invitation

We are pleased to invite submissions for the Asia-Pacific Conference on Networks and Complex Systems 2026, whose goal is to provide more opportunities for Asia-Pacific scientists in network science and complex systems science to share their works, and also to encourage more intense interactions with scientists from other parts of the world.

Format

Submissions should be in the form of two-page extended abstracts containing the titles of the talks, the lists of authors and their affiliations, and paragraphs on the motivations behind the studies, the approaches and methodologies, the key results, and the conclusions and outlooks.

For each abstract, the motivation paragraph should include a brief survey of the research topic, the research questions being asked, and why the answers to these questions are important. The approach and methodology paragraph should succinctly summarize how the study was carried out, and why certain methods are used. The results paragraph should summarize only the key results, and whether and which research questions they answer. This should then be followed by one or two short summary statements in the conclusions and outlook paragraph, as well as additional studies likely to be completed by the time of the conference.

The extended abstract must include a short list of references, but should also take advantage of the second page to include figures on the research questions, the methods, and the results, with appropriate cross referencing in the text. For studies involving humans and animals, we ask for an ethics statement to be included at the end of the abstract.

Submission Guidelines

Submission opens on 1 Dec 2025, and will close on 28 Feb 2026. The abstract should be written in English, using a suitable 12-point font, on an A4-size document with one-inch margins, and submitted through email to SPMS-APCNCS2026@ntu.edu.sg.

The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for research, i.e., for statistical sampling from a probabilistic model is acceptable. How this is done should be mentioned in the approach and methodology paragraph. The use of GenAI for editorial support, i.e., check for grammatical errors or typographical errors, as well as for clarity in the writing is also acceptable. Contributing authors should exercise human oversight on the submitted version, to ensure that the GenAI suggested edits are aligned with their original intents.

Acceptance Notification and Conference Attendance

Acceptance notification emails will be sent to contributing authors on 15 Mar 2026, and conference registration will open on 16 Mar 2026. As we plan the programme of invited talks, contributed talks, and posters, we ask for at least one author of an accepted abstract to register for the conference during the Early Bird period.

Special Issue

In partnership with World Scientific, we will edit a special issue in Advances in Complex Systems in conjunction with the conference. Invited speakers will be requested to submit mini-reviews based on their talks, while selected participants will be invited to submit full papers based on their contributed talks. The opening and closing dates of this special issue will be made known when more information is available.

Focused Sessions

For this inaugural edition of the conference, the local organizers have taken the initiative to organize two focused sessions. A focus session can have its own invited speakers, and will manage its own abstract submission for the contributed talks. Focus session participants can also submit to the main conference, since they must register for the main conference to attend the focus session, so long as the two talks are different.