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Date: 2011/12/8
Subject: IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2012: Call for Workshop Papers
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IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2012
13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Maui, Hawaii, USA
16 - 20 April 2012
http://www.ieee-noms.org/
"Managing the Next Wave of Information and Communications Technologies"
***** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS *****
4th International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet (ManFi 2012)
Abstract registration deadline: December 14, 2011
The Fourth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Management of the Future
Internet (ManFI 2012) will be held in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2012
in Maui, Hawaii, USA, from April 16-20, 2012. The workshop is sponsored by
the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and supported by POSTECH ITCE,
Ghent University-IBBT, NEC, and Ericsson LM. To ack the organizations that
the workshop co-chairs come from. The workshop is endorsed by the Technical
Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).
It is widely agreed that, despite its many successes, the current Internet
also has a set of systemic problems, ranging from an upcoming shortage of
IP addresses to insufficient security. However, the lack of scalable and
agile manageability is arguably more important, as without management, it
is impossible to build systems that adapt the services and resources
offered in a context-dependent manner.
In either case (clean slate vs. evolution vs. revolution) we must consider
the manageability of the Future Internet from the beginning. Following the
success of the three previous editions of this workshop, held in
conjunction with IM 2009, NOMS 2010 and IM 2011, ManFI 2012 aims at
providing an international forum for researchers in these and similar
areas. ManFI 2012 will combine original full paper presentations with a
motivating keynote, quick hot topic presentations and a panel discussion to
thoroughly explore this challenging topic.
For a complete list of topics, click here.
1st IEEE Workshop on Algorithms and Operating Procedures for Federated
Virtualized Networks (FEDNET2012)
Paper submission deadline: December 30th, 2011
Two major concepts have emerged recently for implementing the Future
Internet or future networks: Network Virtualization (NV) and Network
Federation (NF).
Network Virtualization enables the parallel operation (respectively
consolidation) of multiple and possibly application specific network in a
single physical system, and thus achieving vertical integration of network
and services. Network Federation aims at the combination, also denoted as
stitching, of willingly cooperating network resources and thus achieving
horizontal convergence of diverse technical or administrative domains. Due
to these features, NV and NF are currently investigated in almost all major
FI projects such as GENI, AKARI, OneLab2 or G-Lab as the core technologies.
However, the operation of NV and NF based networks might become
challenging. The support of multi-domain federated networks in virtual
environments requires scalable management of network nodes and resources,
which may exhibit a strong dynamic behavior. Future NV and NF based
networks form constantly changing transport system in contrast to today's
rather static network. Furthermore, the users will not care about the
whereabouts of services; currently they are viewed as parts of the
virtualized and federated "cloud", and it's completely up to the operators
to orchestrate the system behind the user interface such that good Quality
of Experience is achieved.
Thus, new paradigms for network management of NV and NF are required. Here,
a highly distributed 'In-Network Management' may be envisaged. To support
this scalable management several challenges are in place. Some of these
challenges include the discovery of the virtual resources in the federated
environment, the support of different resources and how they can be
stitched, which resources to be combined together, the bootstrap and
federation of different virtual resources from different places, the
negotiation of resources between providers, the maintenance of transparency
of the network with multiple criteria and multiple operators, and of
extremely importance is the performance measurement and models to evaluate
federated networks. The integration of network and cloud resources for the
support of federation of both networks and services will also be of major
importance.
The aim of the first IEEE Workshop on Algorithms and Operating Procedures
for Federated Virtualized Networks (FEDNET2012) is to bring together
scientists and engineers from academia and industry and from various
disciplines to exchange and discuss their ideas, views and research results
towards the management and especially operation of consolidated, converged,
virtualized and federated Future Internet and networks of the future.
For a complete list of topics, click here.
5th International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management
Systems 2012 (DANMS'12)
Paper submission deadline: December 30, 2011
The Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems 2012 (DANMS'12)
workshop is part of a series of workshops dedicated to advances in network
management and the application of new management principles in network
design.
The growth of demand for user services is a key characteristic of modern
and future ICT and telecommunications networks. New services have driven up
network usage, but have also created huge network management problems for
the operators, while end-users increasingly expect stream-lined and
seamless network connectivity optimized for their services. Current
approaches of monitoring and managing individual parts of
telecommunications networks are still mostly agnostic to the diverse
services using the network, or are optimized for voice services. Many
management tools cannot even detect which services are operating on the
network, much less support service-specific management objectives. Giving
service providers access to the monitoring and management mechanisms of the
network is not practical, given the multitude of heterogeneous networks
involved, and the security, privacy, availability and regulatory oversight
requirements inherent in managing a large network. Therefore it is the
responsibility of the network managers to monitor and manage the services
running over their networks based on the monitoring, analysis, planning and
reconfiguration resources already available to them. Even though managing
the network is already a challenge, additionally managing the services
running over the networks is a key challenge that must be addressed in a
timely manner. This year DANMS will particularly address how
(semi-)automated analysis of network monitoring data, and planning of
network management actions, can be applied to monitor, manage and support
the services using the network.
For a complete list of topics, click here.
2nd IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Managing Federations and Cooperative Management
(ManFed.com)
Paper submission deadline: December 30, 2011
There are a number of significant, common, complex issues which must be
addressed in all technologies and applications that involve federated
organisations - how to enable secure governance in the absence of a single,
central point of authority; how to achieve semantic interoperability in the
absence of common schema; how to provide effective access control in the
absence of common user and role models; how to support effective decision
making and provide the ability to deal with change in an environment that
can be highly dynamic as well as highly heterogeneous; how to construct and
maintain a common inter-domain governance model in the presence of highly
diverse local governance infrastructures; how to manage multi-domain
environments to realize the business goals of each consumer and provider.
This workshop will, continuing upon the success of the 1st ManFed Workshop
held in Dublin in 2011, bring together researchers from a broad array of
application and technical areas who are concerned with managing
federations. It will draw out common themes, problems and issues that are
encountered, and the solutions that have been devised to deal with the
problems of managing information systems that cut across autonomous domains
in the wide range of research fields and problem areas where such matters
have been addressed. It will aim to provide the basis for a common
understanding and common approaches to inter-domain management and
governance that synthesises the insights and best of breed solutions being
developed in the diverse areas in which these problems are encountered.
The contributed papers, after being reviewed and accepted by ManFed
referees, will be published in the NOMS Workshop Proceedings that will be
included in the IEEExplore. The papers from the previous Workshop have been
also indexed and abstracted by several databases such as INSPEC,
Engineering Index (EI), SCOPUS, Conference Proceedings Citation Index
(CPCI), etc.
For a complete list of topics, click here.
IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Cloud Management (CLOUDMAN 2012)
Paper registration deadline: December 14, 2011
Cloud computing and virtualization are currently hot topics and have been
generating substantial interest in the community and it is anticipated that
this interest will expand. It is also important to the management community
as it is challenging traditional management methods by its sheer size and
high level of automation. Clouds must provide appropriate levels of
performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds are accessed
through virtualized wide area networks. Management systems are essential
for that and thereby for the future success of the cloud paradigm. New
systems, methods, and approaches for cloud and virtualization management
from an IT as well as a networking perspective are to be discussed at this
workshop.
For a complete list of topics, click here.
7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM
2012)
Paper registration deadline: December 19th, 2011
Information Technology (IT) management has evolved significantly over the
past few years as IT-based solutions have become increasingly critical to
the functioning of organizations. From device, network and systems
management, solutions have evolved to include service management and IT
governance, as witnessed by the recent popularity of ITIL and COBIT
frameworks as well as the international standard ISO/IEC 20000.
A recent shift in perspective brought to bear a more customer-centric
approach to IT management, putting IT managers in condition to look at IT
not just from the IT department's traditional point of view, but from the
customers' and users' points of view. Even more recently, a further shift
towards holistic understanding of IT in order to fulfill business
objectives is occurring: one now wishes to look beyond IT services to the
context where the services are used. This is termed Business-driven IT
Management (BDIM) and is the main subject of this Workshop.
BDIM focuses on the impact of IT on business processes and business-level
objectives and vice versa; besides the conventional IT metrics such as
availability and response time, it looks at other key performance
indicators (KPIs), that is metrics that have significance from the point of
view of the business supported by the IT. The BDIM approach aims at
rethinking IT management from a business perspective. BDIM is not
restricted to IT environments in enterprises, but encompasses techniques
and decision making that involve thinking about IT in terms of objectives
that are at business level, of organizations that may not traditionally be
classified as "businesses".
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