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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LANOMS 2005 - 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium Sheraton Hotel - Porto Alegre, Brazil August 29-31, 2005 http://www.lanoms.org/2005/
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TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS: IEEE Communications Society IFIP Technical Committee 6 (Communications Systems) Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) Brazilian Laboratory on Computer Networks (LARC)
GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE SPONSORS: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) HP Brazil Research & Development iVirtua Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to invite you to attend to LANOMS 2005, the 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium, which will be held in August 29-31, 2005 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
LANOMS 2005 is organized by the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and by the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. The main goal of LANOMS is to create a Latin American forum in the area of network management focused on both the local and global audience involving networking and telecommunication companies, academic institutions, service providers and equipment vendors.
LANOMS is an event open to participants from all over the world, who are interested in having, or already have, research or commercial liaisons in Latin America - one of the fastest growing regions in the world in networking and telecommunications.
Looking forward to meeting you in Porto Alegre for LANOMS 2005!
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Luciano Paschoal Gaspary LANOMS 2005 General Co-chairs
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are currently working on the preparation of a high-quality program, composed of tutorials, invited speeches, technical sessions, application session, and panels. Some activities are still to be announced. Keep updated on LANOMS 2005 Technical Program looking at http://www.lanoms.org/2005/.
The activities already confirmed are the following:
TUTORIALS - IETF and the Operations and Management Area Bert Wijnen (Lucent Technologies) - Web Services and Management Dr. Akhil Sahai (HP Labs) - Towards Autonomic Network Management Dr. Marcus Brunner (NEC Europe)
INVITED SPEECHES - The Promise and Implications of Utility Computing Paradigm Dr. Akhil Sahai (HP Labs) - On Deriving Unknown Vulnerabilities from Zero-Day Exploits Dr. Felix Wu (UC Davis)
TECHNICAL SESSIONS We have selected 25 high-quality papers, which will be presented at the symposium. They cover the following topics (non-exhaustive list): - Mobile computing and wireless communications - Security management - Policy-based management - Monitoring and measurement of VoIP, grid infrastructures, optical networks
APPLICATION SESSION In LANOMS 2005 we are introducing an application session to encourage engineers, network planners, service providers, and network operators to share ideas, views, technologies, and experiences on network/service operations and management.
LOCATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Porto Alegre, one of the largest cities in southern Brazil, is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul State. The city is located at the conjunction of five rivers, among them the Guaíba River (actually a lake).
Porto Alegre is the major industrial center for southern Brazil, and a key city for Mercosul. It also is a center for gaúcho (the popular name for natives of the State) history and culture, famous for its churrasco (grilled meat) and chimarrão (a strong tea prepared from erva mate (yerba mate).
ACCOMMODATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LANOMS 2005 will take place at the Sheraton Hotel (http://www.sheraton-poa.com.br/). Room reservations can be made by filling in the registration form available at http://www.lanoms.org/2005/forms/sheraton.html and faxing it to the number provided in the form. As the Sheraton Hotel works respecting a first come, first served policy, we highly recommend you to make your reservation as soon as possible.
LANOMS has several associate hotels which offer special rates for LANOMS attendees. Some are very next to the conference center and others are distributed across the city. A description of these hotels is available at http://www.lanoms.org/2005/.
REGISTRATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To register, please fill in the registration form available at http://143.54.83.4/lanoms2005/public/default.php?en. Early registration ends August 8th, 2005.
ORGANIZING COMMITEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: - Bruno Schulze National Laboratory on Scientific Computing, Brazil - José Neuman de Souza Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
APPLICATION PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: - Iara Machado National Research Network, Brazil - Michael Stanton Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
PUBLICITY CHAIR: - Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
INTERNATIONAL LIAISONS: - Abbas Jamalipour (Australia) University of Sydney, Australia - Rolf Stadler (Europe) KTH, Sweden - Mehmet Ulema (USA) Manhattan College, USA
STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. Federal University of Paraná, Brazil - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira State University of Caminas, Brazil - José Marcos Silva Nogueira Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Antônio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nazim Agoulmine Univ. of Evry, France - Rossana Andrade Federal University of Ceará, Brazil - Benjamín Barán Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay - Abdelmalek Benzekri Université Paul Sabatier, France - Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada - Tereza Carvalho University of São Paulo, Brazil - Javier Diaz University La Plata, Argentina - Yezid Donoso Universidad del Norte Barranquilla, Colombia - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. Federal University of Paraná, Brazil - Masayoshi Ejiri Fujitsu, Japan - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil - Germán Goldszmidt IBM, USA - Carlos de Castro Goulart Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - James Won-Ki Hong POSTECH, Korea - Ahmed Karmouch University of Ottawa, Canada - Lundy Lewis Verizon, USA - Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Hanan Lutfiyya University of Western Ontario, Canada - Iara Machado RNP, Brazil - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira State University of Campinas, Brazil - Thomas Magedanz IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany - Manu Malek Stevens Institute of Technology, USA - Edmundo Monteiro University of Coimbra, Portugal - José Marcos Silva Nogueira Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Jauvane de Oliveira LNCC, Brazil - Edward L. Pinnes Telcordia, USA - Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Bruno R. Schulze LNCC, Brazil - Paulo Simões University Coimbra, Portugal - José Neuman de Souza Federal University of Ceará, Brazil - Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Mehmet Ulema Manhattan College, USA - Florencio Utreras Cooperacion Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, Chile - Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil