The Opportunities and Challenges of Complex Networks Research

This article is an edited report from a workshop on complex networks organized by the Hangzhou Normal University in 2013, where ten challenging research problems in the field of network science were identified through collective discussions. These ten issues are formulated from the active complex networks research in the present big-data era, aiming to provide important research directions along with sensible suggestions and recommendations to young scholars with potential contributions into future research on complex networks.