-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP NOMS 2008 Datum: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:17:10 +0200 Von: Michael Menth menth@INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

Call for Papers

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008 (20th Year Anniversary!) Pervasive Management for Ubiquitous Networks and Services

7-11 April 2008 Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

http://www.ieee-noms.org/2008

Important Dates

August 24, 2007 Abstract Registration September 1, 2007 Deadline for Technical Session Papers September 1, 2007 Deadline for Workshop Proposals

The 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008) will be held on 7-11 April 2008 in the exiting and lively city of Salvador - Bahia - Brazil. Held in even-numbered years, NOMS 2008 will follow the 20 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of the research, standards, development, systems integration, service provider, and user communities. NOMS 2008 will present innovative approaches and technical solutions for integrated systems and services including communication networks, host systems, enterprise applications, service oriented architectures, and delivery of management services. The conference provides a highly selective peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, and software tools sessions. In addition, the conference offers tutorials, posters, and panels as well as vendor exhibits covering many aspects of management.

Management gets pervasive and needs to vanish since the networks and systems are vanishing from the users' perception. Users should stay users, not managers of their information and communication platforms and services. Pervasive systems and services require considerations for multi-service and multi-domain environments of heterogeneous technologies, wide range of service offerings, new management strategies, and business models. Pervasive management encompasses provisioning, operation, and maintenance for up-scaled systems and still not bother users and administrator enabling automated management. This broad scope and the distributed nature also call for new approaches to dependability, resilience, quality-of-service, mobility management, and services billing. In particular, these considerations include the combination of wireless and wired (FMC), high and low throughput systems, and small as well as large scale deployments.

NOMS 2008 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel, and software tools. Technical sessions will present very high-quality papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions will present papers focusing on the experience of IT and telecommunications industries, such as service providers, OSS vendors, and equipment manufacturers. The scope here includes customer requirements, management system implementations, and business practices. Poster sessions will provide an insight into work-in-progress. Panel sessions will focus on business implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists that are technology and business leaders. The software tools sessions are targeted for the presentation of software tools including open source management software and demonstrations of research prototypes. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library and the conference proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit complete, unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas:

Management Paradigms and Architectures

* Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing,self-protecting and self-configuring) * Self-adaptive applications * Autonomic management of networks, systems, and services * Self-repairing distributed systems * Integrated control and management * Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management * P2P approaches for scalable network management * Policy and role based management * Programmable, active, and adaptive management * Resilience, dependability, and survivability * "Plug-n-Play" component-based management * Customer controlled and managed networks * Proactive and reactive management * Biologically inspired management systems and techniques

Theories and Models

* AI techniques for management: knowledge-based, intelligent agents, machine learning, neural networks * Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management * Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies * Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM,SID)

Management Standards and Enabling Technologies

* Integration and middleware technologies for management * Service-oriented architectures and management * Data warehousing, ontology, mining and statistical methods in management * Next generation operation support systems * User interfaces and virtual reality in management * Inter-domain Management

Management and Virtual Environments

* Managing virtual resources and services (VPNs, VLANs) * Virtualization of operations centers, help desks * Information modeling in virtual environments

Service Engineering and Operational Challenges

* Service design and quality assurance * Resource inventory, planning, and allocation * Service discovery and service negotiation * SLA and business process management * Quality-of-Service (QoS) management * Service portability/mobility (VHE) * Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management * "Soft" networks (Soft-switch, Parlay, 3GPP OSA, JAIN) and service switching * Dynamic service requirements analysis * Charging and accounting of integrated systems and services * Self-adaptive e-business services * Self-organized service deployment

Operation and Management Functions

* Security management, federated identity management * Mobility management * End-to-end measurements * Network, service, and systems monitoring * Alarm and event correlation and filtering * Customer care and workforce management * Process engineering for operators' service and network management * Performance and fault management * Configuration and accounting management * Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products * Management of content hosting and delivery * Path Protection and restoration * Internet service pricing, bandwidth trading * Decision making in self-* systems

Management of Emerging Networks and Services

* Converged networks and services * Peer-to-peer and community networks * Grids, grid services, and grid applications * Ad hoc and self-configurable networks * Multi-sensor and self-organizing networks * Overlay networks, virtual topologies and VPN services * Wireless broadband networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond) * High speed access, Wireless Local (WLANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs) * Optical networks (metropolitan, all optical, WDM, DWDM, optical IP) * Video and broadband cable networks * VoIP/NGN infrastructures and services * IP TV, Video on Demand * FTTX networks, services, and protocols * Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASPs server farms * Web services and content delivery networks * Smart homes and networked haptics * Satellite and interplanetary networks * e-World (e-health, e-commerce, e-business, and e-government)

Organizational Aspects of IT Service Management

* Process engineering and process frameworks (ITIL, eTOM) * Quality management for IT service provisioning * Workflow management for IT service provisioning * Risk management and IT governance issues * Business alignment of IT service management

Submission Instructions

Please use the appropriate link to submit your technical or application session papers, because submissions will be handled differently. Misdirected papers stand at risk of not being considered. Click here ( https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=526 https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=526 ) to go direct to the submission system (JEMS).

Technical Sessions Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the JEMS web site . Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style (see below for Templates). Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.

Application Sessions Papers Submission

Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The paper format will be one of annotated slides - papers 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.

The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area , author's full names, affiliations and complete addresses, and electronic mail addresses.

Important Dates

August 24, 2007 Abstract Registration September 1, 2007 Deadline for Technical Session Papers September 1, 2007 Deadline for Workshop Proposals October 1, 2007 Deadline for Application Papers October 1, 2007 Deadline for Posters October 1, 2007 Deadline for Software Tools October 1, 2007 Deadline for Panel Proposals October 1, 2007 Deadline for Tutorial Proposals November 15, 2007 Notification of Acceptance January 15, 2008 Final Camera Ready Papers Due