CALL FOR PAPERS
********************************************************************** 9th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT (IM'05) 15-19 May, 2005 Nice, France
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission : August 23, 2004 Notification : November 26, 2004 Camera Ready : January 15, 2005
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"Managing New Networked Worlds"
The Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005) will be held 16-19 May 2005 in Nice, France. IM 2005 will present the latest technical advances in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989 and taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS, IM 2005 will build on the successes of its predecessors and serve as the primary forum for technical exchange among the research, standards, vendor and user communities in the network management field. The symposium is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).
We are witnessing the dawn of a new era in networking. New networked worlds emerge in which connectivity becomes increasingly ubiquitous and the infrastructure blends in seamlessly with business functions, applications, and the supported environment. These new worlds are no longer only characterized by the increasing heterogeneity and number of devices, but also by properties such as convergence, context awareness, accelerated service lifecycles, virtualization of resources, massive P2P infrastructures, unprecedented security challenges, and much more. Further, new types of networks are emerging such as sensor networks, agent networks, storage-area networks, and grid-based networks. All of this incurs new challenges and opportunities for network management and the ways in which it is approached, requiring management technology to evolve as rapidly as the new networked worlds.
IM 2005 will be organized into technical sessions, panels, and tutorials. In addition, it will feature application sessions focusing on practical lessons learned by the user and vendor communities, posters, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and vendor exhibits. In the tradition of previous events, we strive to make the IM 2005 Symposium the highest quality professional event of the year. Paper submissions will undergo a stringent review process implemented by the Technical Program Committee which includes many of the most respected experts in the field.
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Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal, as well as proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
(-) Management paradigms, models, and algorithms
* Integrating control and management, cooperative control * Self management and management automation * Policy and role based management * Advanced management instrumentation * Adaptive and programmable management * Information modeling * Management ontologies
(-) Management functions and operational challenges
* Security management, defense against security threats * Network and service monitoring, event correlation, filtering * Network and service diagnostics, proactive management * Business and operational processes * Traffic engineering and measurement * Service creation, deployment, and provisioning * Accounting, charging and billing * Service portability and mobility * SLAs, service level monitoring, QoS management * Managed services management * Scalability, resilience and survivability
(-) Management standards, platforms and technologies
* Next-generation Operations Support Systems * Internet management standards and technologies * Open source software and their application to management * Management and the Web * Component based management and management plug&play * Case studies & integration experiences with management platforms and COTS
(-) Management of new networked worlds
* Wireless sensor networks and RFID-enabled networks * Overlay networks, virtual topologies, VPN services * Virtualized resources * Context and subscriber aware networks, mobile computing * Ad hoc and self organizing networks * Smart homes, Piconets, PANs * Storage Area Networks and ASP server farms * Web services, content hosting, switching, delivery * Resource-aware applications, power constrained resources * Converged networks and services * IPv4/v6 networks and services, VoIP, video distribution * Powerline Internet, optical networks, metro Ethernet, WLANs * Grid, peer-to-peer networks and services
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Technical Papers
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are requested to submit long papers (up to 14 single-spaced single-column pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Conference web site.
Submission : August 23, 2004 Notification : November 26, 2004 Cameray Ready : January 15, 2005
Application Sessions
Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The paper format should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions should consist of no more than 15 visuals in PDF or PowerPoint. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Conference web site. Authors are also invited to contact the Application Sessions Chair, Joseph Betser (betser@aero.org).
Submission : August 23, 2004
Posters
The symposium also offers poster sessions for more informal interactions and presenting work in progress. Extended abstracts can be submitted for consideration as poster presentations. Posters will be selected from these extended abstracts and regular papers. Posters proposals should be submitted to the Technical Program Co-Chairs (im2005tpcchairs@loria.fr):
Submission : September 30, 2004 Notification : November 26, 2004 Cameray Ready : January 15, 2005
Tutorials
The symposium includes tutorials on the days before and after the technical program. A proposal to present a tutorial should contain the following information:
Tutorial Title, Full Name of the Instructor Biography of the Instructor (100-200 words) Outline and Extended Abstract (500-1000 words)
If the tutorial or its earlier version has been given before, please indicate the events, dates and contents. Tutorial proposals should be sent to the Tutorial Chair, Masum Hasan (masum@cisco.com).
Submission : September 30, 2004
Panels
We will also consider proposals for Panels. Proposals should include the following information :
Panel Title, Names of the Organizer and Panelists, Abstract (200-300 words)
Proposals should be submitted to the Panels Chair, Gautam Kar (gkar@us.ibm.com).
Submission : September 30, 2004
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Seraphin Calo IBM Research, USA
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Alexander Clemm Olivier Festor Aiko Pras Cisco Systems INRIA CTIT, U. of Twente USA France The Netherlands
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Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France Kevin Almeroth, UCSB, USA Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, Chicago, USA Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Finn Arve Aagesen, NTNU, Norway Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Prakash Bettadapur, Cisco Systems, USA Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland, CAIDA, New Zealand Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Tom Chen, SMU, USA Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA Marc Dacier, Eurecom, France Markus Debusman, FH Wiesbaden Luca Deri, NETikos S.p.A., Italy Petre Dini, Cisco, USA William Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Masayoshi Ejiri, Fujitsu, Japan Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France Nobuo Fujii, NTT laboratories, Japan Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany German Goldszmidt , IBM USA Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Peer Hasselmeyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys, USA Gautam Kar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Alan Marshal, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland Ian W. Marshall, University of Kent, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya Labs Research, USA Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Philippe Owesarski, LAAS-CNRS, France George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Guy Pujolle, LIP6 University of Paris 6, France Jurgen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Christian Rad, USA Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Enrico Ronco, Telecom Italia, Italy Lionel Sacks, University College London, UK Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA Jürgen Schönwälder , International University Bremen, Germany Joan Serrat, University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Michelle Sibilla, University Paul Sabatier, France Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Radu State, LORIA-INRIA, France John Strassner, Intelliden, USA Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands John Vicente, Intel, USA Vincent P. Wade, Trinity College Dublin,Ireland Robert Weihmayer, Verizon, USA Andrea Westerinen, Cisco Systems, USA Bert Wijnen, Lucent, USA Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA Makoto Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan Douglas Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA