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From: Joseph Betser Joseph.Betser@aero.org Date: 12. September 2004 22:43:17 MESZ To: im2005tpc@comsoc.org Cc: im2005oc@comsoc.org Subject: PLS Forward, IM'2005 Application Sessions CFP - Deadline 2004 Oct 01

Dear TPC Member:

The IM'2005 Organizing Committee met on Sept 9, and agreed to extend the submission deadline for APPLICATION SESSIONS ONLY to 2004 October 1.

The OC would like to solicit professional from the community to offer from their practical experience to the IM'2005 community. We would like to reach out to members of related communities such as business enterprises and related practitioners.

www.im2005.org

Please forward this CFP to e-mail distributions within your organization and/or to relevant professional e-mail distributions of which you are a member.

Thank you for your support!

We look forward to a great IM'2005 in Nice!

Respectfully,

Joe Betser, Program Chair IM'2005 Application Sessions

(See attached file: IM2005-AppSess-CFP.doc)

Dr. Joseph Betser, Senior Project Leader Business Development, Software and Computer Systems The Aerospace Corporation, M1-106 310-336-0577 betser@aero.org ================================================== Call for IM’2005 Application Sessions Presentations

Submission Deadline - 2004 October 01

Application Session submissions are currently sought. Your experience, lessons-learned, business cases, implementation examples, new applications, innovative enterprises, organizational impacts, in any of the detailed topics below.

Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The paper format should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions should consist of no more than 15 annotated visuals in PDF only. Detailed author instructions are available on the author information page on the conference web site.

   Submission: 1 October 2004, midnight (GMT)
   Notification: 26 November 2004
   Camera Ready: 15 January 2005

www.im2005.org

The Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005) will be held 16-19 May 2005 in Nice, France. IM 2005 will present the latest technical advances in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989 and taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS, IM 2005 will build on the successes of its predecessors and serve as the primary forum for technical exchange among the research, standards, vendor and user communities in the network management field. The symposium is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

We are witnessing the dawn of a new era in networking. New networked worlds emerge in which connectivity becomes increasingly ubiquitous and the infrastructure blends in seamlessly with business functions, applications, and the supported environment. These new worlds are characterized by properties such as convergence, context awareness, accelerated service lifecycles, virtualization of resources, massive P2P infrastructures, and unprecedented security challenges. Further, new types of networks are emerging such as sensor, agent, storage-area, and grid-based networks. All of this incurs new challenges and opportunities for network management and the ways in which it is approached, requiring management technology to evolve as rapidly as the new networked worlds.IM 2005 will be organized into technical sessions, panels, and tutorials. In addition, it will feature an industrial experience track to share practical lessons learned by the user and vendor communities, posters, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and vendor exhibits. In the tradition of previous events, we strive to make the IM 2005 Symposium the highest quality professional event of the year. Paper submissions will undergo a stringent review process implemented by the Technical Program Committee, which includes many of the most respected experts in the field.

Detailed submission instructions are available on the symposium Web site, http://www.ieee-im.org/. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

   Management paradigms, models, and algorithms

        Integrating control and management, cooperative control
        Self management and management automation
        Policy and role based management
        Advanced management instrumentation
        Adaptive and programmable management
        Information modeling
        Management ontologies

   Management functions and operational challenges

        Security management, defense against security threats
        Network and service monitoring, event correlation, 

filtering Network and service diagnostics, proactive management Business and operational processes Traffic engineering and measurement Service creation, deployment, and provisioning Accounting, charging and billing Service portability and mobility SLAs, service level monitoring, QoS management Managed services management Scalability, resilience and survivability

   Management standards, platforms and technologies

        Next-generation Operations Support Systems
        Internet management standards and technologies
        Open source software and their application to management
        Management and the Web
        Component based management and management plug&play
        Case studies & integration experiences with management 

platforms and COTS

   Management of new networked worlds

        Wireless sensor networks, RFID-enabled networks
        Overlay networks, virtual topologies, VPN services

        Virtualized resources
        Context and subscriber aware networks, mobile computing
        Ad hoc and self organizing networks
        Smart homes, Piconets, PANs
        Storage Area Networks and ASP server farms
        Web services, content hosting, switching, delivery
        Resource-aware applications, power constrained resources
        Converged networks and services
        IPv4/v6 networks and services, VoIP, video distribution
        Powerline Internet, optical networks, metro Ethernet, WLANs
        Grid, peer-to-peer networks and services

APPLICATION SESSIONS:

   Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in 

English. The paper format should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions should consist of no more than 15 annotated visuals in PDF only. Detailed author instructions are available on the author information page on the conference web site.

   Submission: 1 October 2004, midnight (GMT)
   Notification: 26 November 2004
   Camera Ready: 15 January 2005