1. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme IST-2001-33555 - COSIN Coevolution and Self-Organisation in Dynamical Networks http://www.cosin.org n COSIN is a FET project acting from 1.3.2002 to 1.3.2005. n COSIN intends to form a complex framework of measuring, modelization and visualization tools for the Internet and WWW. n COSIN is composed by different communities –Computer scientists –Statistical physicists –Graph Theorists –COSIN is coordinated by G. Caldarelli (gcalda@pil.phys.uniroma1,it)

2. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme IST-2001-33555 COSIN Topics –Abstract and Objectives –In this project we want to develop statistical models to describe networks growth and evolution. These models will be based on agents interactions and inspired to the theory of Self-Organization and Fractal Growth. At the same time we are thinking to collect data mainly for Internet and World Wide Web structure in order to validate the models and we want to devise visualization tools in order to analyze large data sets both from numerical simualtions and from real-world data. Application to social andconomic networks will be also considered. –Description of Work and Milestones –Realization of a stocastic model for the Internet. –Realization of a stocastic model for the World Wide Web. –Realization of a stocastic model for the social networks. –Tools for visualizing large scale networks. –We expect at the end of this project to have also a common framework of knowledge –in order to proper describe growing networks and Complex Systems in general. –Abstract and Objectives –In this project we want to develop statistical models to describe networks growth and evolution. These models will be based on agents interactions and inspired to the theory of Self-Organization and Fractal Growth. At the same time we are thinking to collect data mainly for Internet and World Wide Web structure in order to validate the models and we want to devise visualization tools in order to analyze large data sets both from numerical simualtions and from real-world data. Application to social andconomic networks will be also considered. –Description of Work and Milestones –Realization of a stocastic model for the Internet. –Realization of a stocastic model for the World Wide Web. –Realization of a stocastic model for the social networks. –Tools for visualizing large scale networks. –We expect at the end of this project to have also a common framework of knowledge –in order to proper describe growing networks and Complex Systems in general.

3. Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme Project funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies arm of the IST Programme FET-Open scheme IST-2001-33555 COSIN Partecipants Total cost 1,688,199 Community funding 1,256,000 Project start 1.3.2002 Duration 36 months COSIN involves 6 different nodes in 5 countries –A INFM and Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italy –B University of Barcelona, Spain –C University of Lausanne, Switzerland –D Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France –E University of Konstanz -> Karlsruhe, Germany Total cost 1,688,199 Community funding 1,256,000 Project start 1.3.2002 Duration 36 months COSIN involves 6 different nodes in 5 countries –A INFM and Università “La Sapienza” Roma, Italy –B University of Barcelona, Spain –C University of Lausanne, Switzerland –D Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France –E University of Konstanz -> Karlsruhe, Germany EU COSIN participant EU countries Non EU countries Non EU COSIN participant