IFIP/IEEE IM'2005 Application Sessions CFP - Deadline 2004Oct 01

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================================================== 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

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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