Call for Papers 7th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services

Host: IT@Intel Information Technology Research Intel Corporation San Diego, California, USA October 3-6, 2004 ====================================================================

The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its seventh annual meeting on October 3 through October 6, 2004, in San Diego, California. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for discussion and debate.

MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration.

The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia communications and mobile application services thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key.

MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2004 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit novel research in network autonomics and new architectures in wireless systems and multimedia services to facilitate security, quality of service and mobility.

The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

. Network autonomics & autonomous systems . Adaptive computing systems . Wireless and mobile multimedia network management . Ad-hoc and Sensor networks . Distributed multimedia service management . End-to-end IP multimedia management . Converged communications (VoIP) service management . Active multimedia network management . Multimedia session management . Video, streaming, real-time video service management . Middleware, reflective systems support for management . Multimedia traffic management . Multimedia content protection . Large-scale monitoring and provisioning systems . Policy-based management . Network programmability for multimedia services . Trustworthy & survivable systems . Quality of service management . Resource, performance and fault management . Multi-point, multicast services management . Deployment of multimedia services . Traffic engineering and optimization . Network management models and architectures . Billing and security for multi-media services . Content distribution networking . RFID-based management systems . Cable multimedia network management . Optical multimedia network management

For further information, please contact the co-chairs:

John Vicente (john.vicente@intel.com) or David Hutchison (d.hutchison@lancaster.ac.uk)

Important dates:

Submission deadline: April 30, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2004 Final version: July 30, 2004 MMNS04 Conference: October 3-6, 2004