-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008) Datum: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:08:01 +0100 Von: Burkhard Stiller stiller@IFI.UZH.CH Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Organisation: University of Zurich, IFI An: KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

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Call for Papers

2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security AIMS 2008 "Resilient Networks and Services" http://www.aims2008.org 1-3 July 2008 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across different communities and among PhD students.

AIMS 2008 focuses on resilient networks and services and in particular on novel technologies that can provide resilience in a scalable, economic, secure, and autonomic way. To achieve resilience, new techniques such as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization techniques, or self-organizing overlays must be explored. Modeling, analysis, and visualization is essential in order to understand the emerging overall system behavior.

* Conference Topics

Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas:

Scalable and autonomic infrastructures

- Autonomic network and service management - Dynamic overlays and P2P-based management systems - Fully decentralized and distributed approaches

Economic management

- Economic aspects of IT infrastructures - Distributed accounting and monitoring - Reputation and incentive mechanisms

Security and trust management

- Inter-domain trust management and security concepts - Resilience and reliability of network and service infrastructures - Defense against distributed attacks and botnets - Management and evaluation of security services

Virtualization

- Virtualization of resources and services - Management of virtual network laboratories (e.g. GENI, PlanetLab) - Economics of network and service virtualization - Management of Grid resources and virtual organizations

Modeling and visualization

- Modeling of management technologies and procedures - Modeling and analysis of policies and promises - Visualization of management data and systems behavior

* Conference Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted to the AIMS 2008 paper track. Each submission will be limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2008 Web page.

Submissions to the conference are expected to report substantial research results relevant for the subjects listed above.

* PhD Workshop Submission

The PhD workshop provides PhD students the opportunity to present, discuss, and obtain feedback from the AIMS 2008 audience about their research work. PhD students are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their research. The paper should include a clear description of the research problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers should have no more than two authors--the student and the advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS proceedings.

* Best Paper Award

The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible). The winner will be presented at the conference.

* Location

Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. The green campus located in the city of Bremen has ideal meeting facilities and can host a large number of people during the summer on campus.

* Deadlines

10 Feb 2008 Conference paper submission deadline 10 Feb 2008 PhD workshop paper submission deadline 06 Apr 2008 Notification about paper acceptance 06 Apr 2008 Notification of PhD workshop paper acceptance 20 Apr 2008 Camera ready paper copies due 01 Jul 2008 AIMS 2008 conference

* Organization

General Chair:

- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Technical Program Chairs:

- David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

PhD Workshop Chairs:

- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands

Tutorials and Keynotes:

- Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK

* Steering Committee

- Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Mark Burgess, HIO, Norway - Olivier Festor, INRIA, France - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany - Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden

* Technical Program Committee

- Panayotis Antoniadis, University of Pierre and Marie Curie Paris, France - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Jan Bergstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway - Georg Carle, Univeristy of Tuebingen, Germany - Isabelle Chrisment, Nancy University, France - Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA - Costas A. Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland - Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany - Olivier Festor, INRIA Lorraine, France - Thomas Fuhrmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea - Alexander Keller, IBM, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, USA - Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK - Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada - David A. Maltz, Microsoft Research, USA - Martin May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - George Pavlou, CCSR, University of Surrey, UK - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Bruno Quoitin, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Danny Raz, Technion, Israel - Helmut Reiser, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino, Italy - Joan Serrat, UPC, Spain - Radu State, INRIA Lorraine, France - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Maarten van Steen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany - Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany - Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA