Call for Papers
2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004)
"Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services"
Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004
The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) will be held 19-23 April, 2004 in COEX Convention Center, Seoul, Korea. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of network operations and management. Held in the even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2004 continues 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. An exciting, peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, panels, tutorials, posters, 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 symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM), and by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems.
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. 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 operations and management community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at unprecedented scales. 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.
NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous NOMS by expanding its program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operations 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.
The NOMS 2004 program consists of three distinct sessions: technical, application, and panels. Technical sessions present the papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions present the papers focusing on the experience of IT/telecommunications industries (service providers, OSS/equipment vendors, etc.) and customers based on their system implementation and business practice in the operations and management. Panel sessions focus on business implications, market trends of cutting edge technologies, and applications with the panelists consisting of technology experts and business executives. In addition, NOMS 2004 will feature tutorials, posters, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and vendor exhibitions.
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 sessions, poster demonstrations and BoF sessions.
Important Dates: Deadline for Technical Session Papers: 1 August 2003 Deadline for Application Session Papers: 15 September 2003 Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 15 September 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2003 Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers: 15 December 2003 Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 January 2004
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