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| 18th IFIP/IEEE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2007)|
|         *** MANAGING VIRTUALIZATION OF NETWORKS AND SERVICES ***         |
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|                 October 29-31, 2007 – Silicon Valley, CA                 |
|                       http://dsom.manweek.org/2007                       |
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|                       PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS                        |
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The IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems:  Operations and
Management  (DSOM)  is the premier  annual workshop  in the general  area of
network and services management.  It has built up its strong reputation over
a  period  of  almost  two  decades.   The  workshop  is  sponsored  by  the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6
on  Management  of  Networks  and  Distributed  Systems,  with technical co-
sponsorship  by  the  IEEE Communications Society,  Technical  Committee  on
Network  Operations  and Management (CNOM).  In its 18th edition,  DSOM 2007
will be held October 29-31,  2007 in Silicon Valley,  California, as part of
the  3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services  (Manweek
2007).

THEME AND TOPICS
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The primary theme of DSOM 2007 will be  "Managing Virtualization of Networks
and  Services."  Virtualization,  in  which  properties  of  a  service  are
decoupled   from   its  physical   realization  over   networking   and   IT
infrastructure,  is  capturing  the imagination  of  the  industry  and  the
research community alike.  The goal of DSOM 2007 is to shed light on related
research issues,  investigating questions  such as:  what is different about
virtualization  in 2007  compared to  the mainframe era,  what  advances  in
network  control and  self-management  may advance virtualization,  what new
problems we will incur when managing virtualized networks and services,  and
how management itself may benefit from virtualization. Submissions on topics
related  to  managing  virtualization  of  networks and  services  are hence
particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
   - Virtualization of networks and services
   - Management implications of virtualization
   - Managing security in a virtual environment
   - Self-management and virtualization
   - Troubleshooting virtualized networks and services
   - Performance and QoS management in virtualized environments
   - Management patterns and algorithms for scalable management
   - Controlling the tradeoffs between overhead, accuracy,
     robustness, and security
   - Distributed, decentralized, and peer-to-peer management
   - Management of next generation service networks
   - Monitoring and measurements
   - Anomaly detection and data mining for management
   - Fault management and event correlation
   - Management and operations of massively redundant data centers
   - Semantic Web techniques for management
   - Instrumentation and embedded management
   - Implementation, deployment, and operations experiences

PAPER SUBMISSION
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It is planned to publish  DSOM 2007 proceedings in Springer-Verlag's Lecture
Notes in  Computer Science (LNCS)  series.  Paper submissions  must  present
original,  unpublished research or  experiences.  Late-breaking advances and
work-in-progress  reports from ongoing  research are also encouraged. Papers
under review  elsewhere  MUST NOT  be  submitted to  DSOM 2007.  Authors are
requested to submit either long or short papers, strictly in LNCS format:

   - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)
   - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages)

Submissions  exceeding the above mentioned page limits will not be reviewed.
Papers  must  be  submitted  electronically   through  the  JEMS  conference
management  system  at  https://jems.sbc.org.br/dsom2007 (only PDF files are
permitted).

IMPORTANT DATES (PRELIMINARY)
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   - Submission:   May 13, 2007 (GMT)
   - Notification: July 6, 2007
   - Camera ready: August 2, 2007

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Alexander Clemm        Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville       Rolf Stadler
 -Cisco, USA-                 -UFRGS, Brazil-                -KTH, Sweden-
alex@cisco.com             granville@inf.ufrgs.br          stadler@ee.kth.se