-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on "Management of IP Networks and Services" -- IJIPT Journal (Reminder) Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:32:08 +0200 Von: Gregorio Martinez gregorio@dif.um.es Organisation: University of Murcia (UMU) An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERNET PROTOCOL TECHNOLOGY (IJIPT)

Special Issue on "Management of IP Networks and Services"

1. Objectives

Network and service management today faces numerous challenges, ones that older ways of doing things cannot solve. Several proposals and paradigms have been proposed in the last few years to offer possible solutions to these issues. In most cases they are providing a system-wide view of the network and its services, thus trying to shift the emphasis of management and monitoring away from specific devices and interfaces towards users and applications.

This Special Issue will provide the reader with the last relevant results in this field, thus providing a common base for researchers and practitioners that need to understand the current status and trends of management of IP networks and services.

2. Subject coverage

In this special issue original research articles providing results of practical use for IP network and service managers will be published. Contributions are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories:

• New Abstractions for Management and Monitoring. • Self-Management and Self-Configuration of Networks and Services. • Techniques for Evaluating Network Management Architectures and Frameworks. • Information Models Applied to Management and Monitoring. • Management Platforms, Interoperability, Standards and Protocols. • Management of Networks and Services: VPNs, Optical Networks, CATV Networks, Mobile and Ad-Hoc Networks, Voice over IP, Transaction Oriented Services, Electronic Commerce, Active and Programmable Networks, Sensor Networks. • Management of Grid Computing, Clusters, Peer-to-Peer Applications, and Ubiquitous Computing Environments. • Intrusion Detection and Network Management. • Management Aspects of Service Pricing, Accounting and Billing. • Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service. • Business and Service Management. • Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Management. • Data Management in Grid Scenarios. • Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Management. • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies for Management. • Management Technologies and Frameworks (Web, XML, CORBA, DEN, etc). • Network and Systems Monitoring. • Fault and Performance Management. • Traffic and Performance Management. • Security Management. • Open-Source Management Software. • Case Studies and Experiences in Management.

3. Important dates

Manuscript Submission: April 16, 2007 (Extended) Author Notification: May 31, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: June 30, 2007 Publication: Spring 2008

4. Instructions for submission

Papers should be in English and contain original contributions on the topics of this special issue. Only original papers that have not been published or that are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers should be sent by email to both guest editors by April 16, 2007 (extended).

Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability of the manuscript. Papers that either lack clarity in presentation, or are not according to the IJIPT author guidelines (available on-line at: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31) or are outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review.

5. Guest editors

Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, gregorio@dif.um.es Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, skarmeta@dif.um.es