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From: "G.Pavlou" G.Pavlou@surrey.ac.uk Date: 29. Januar 2005 22:07:03 MEZ To: ifip_nm ifip_nm@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Subject: [Ifip_nm] CFP: IEEE Communications - Network & Service Management Series

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Call for Papers

IEEE Communications Magazine - Network & Service Management Series

First issue (deadline: March 30, 2005)

http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag1005.html

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IEEE Communications Magazine announces the creation of a new series on Network and Service Management. The series will be published twice a year, in April and October, with the first issue planned for October 2005. It intends to provide articles on the latest developments in this well-established and thriving discipline. Published articles are expected to highlight recent research achievements in this field and provide insight into theoretical and practical issues related to the evolution of network and service management from different perspectives. The series will provide a forum for the publication of both academic and industrial research, addressing the state of the art, theory and practice in network and service management. Both original research and review papers are welcome, in the style expected for IEEE Communications Magazine. Articles should be of tutorial nature, written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the speciality of Network and Service Management. This series therefore complements the newly established IEEE Electronic Transactions on Network & Service Management (eTNSM) - http://www.comsoc.org/etnsm/.

General areas include but are not limited to:

• Management models, architectures and frameworks
• Service provisioning, reliability and quality assurance
• Management functions
• Management standards, technologies and platforms
• Management policies
• Applications, case studies and experiences

IEEE Communications Magazine is read by tens of thousands of readers from both academia and industry. The magazine has also been ranked the number one telecommunications journal according to the ISI citation database for year 2000, and the number three for year 2001. The published papers will also be available on-line through Communications Magazine Interactive, the WWW edition of the magazine. Details about IEEE Communications Magazine can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/ci/.

Schedule for the first issue:

• Manuscripts due: March 30, 2005
• Acceptance notification: June 30, 2005
• Publication date: October 2005

Series Editors: Prof. George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK. Dr. Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands.