NOMS 2004

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FINAL EXTENSION - Call for Paper ***** Paper submission deadline extended to Sunday 31st August 2003 *****

Network Operation & Management Symposium 2004 "Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services"

Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004

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The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) will be held 19-23 April, 2004 at Seoul, Korea. Held in the even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2004 will continue the established tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of research, standards, development, systems integrator, service providers, and user communities. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of network operations and management. An exciting, peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, tutorials, posters, panels and vendor exhibits will address the ever-increasing interest in overall management solutions for all types of communications and computing networks, systems, services and enterprise applications. The concept of network convergence has recently emerged as a new attempt for the merging of telephony and data networks into a single, multi-service network exploiting the ubiquity of the Internet Protocol. For this increasingly attractive business model, in both wired and wireless domains, strategic research is required to devise the best integration architectures, operations and management solutions. This creates a unique opportunity for the network operation and management community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at unprecedented scales. The NOMS 2004 provides the forum for discussing these research challenges and many others inherent to the integrated management of next generation converged networks and services. This year NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous IM and NOMS by expanding its program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operation and management to network planning, service engineering and business processes for network and service management. Special attention will be given to experiences that emphasize lessons learned and reports on practice from industry. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather sessions.

Important Dates: Deadline for Submitting Papers: 31st August 2003 Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 1 October 2003 Notification of Acceptance:15 November 2003 Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers:15 December 2003 Final Camera Ready Papers Due 15 January 2004