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<div align="center"><font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b>IM 2013</b></font><br>
<font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b>The 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management </b></font><br>
<font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b>Ghent, Belgium, 27-31 May 2013</b></font><br>
<font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b><a href="http://www.im2013.org/">http://www.im2013.org/</a></b></font><br>
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<font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b>(Paper Submission Date: 16 August 2012)</b></font><br>
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<font size="3" color="#2F2F2F" face="sans-serif"><b><i>"Smart Management in a Virtualized World"</i></b></font></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2013) will be held 27-31 May 2013 at Ghent University, Belgium. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2013 follows the 25 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. IM 2013 will focus on the theme "Smart Management in a Virtualized World" presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future cloud, network and ICT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures. IM 2013 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel and dissertation digest. High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical Program Committee and stringent peer review of paper submissions. A special call for demonstrations is organized to allow industry partners and researchers to demonstrate early products and prototypes.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>TOPICS OF INTEREST</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. In addition, we invite submissions of proposals for demonstrations, exhibits, technical panels, tutorials, workshops, and application session papers.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Network Management & Operational Experience</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Wireless & mobile networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Broadband access networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Future Internet</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data Centers</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Home networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Smart Grids</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Automotive and Vehicular Networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Cognitive Radio networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• IP/MPLS networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Optical networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Overlay networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Ad-hoc networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Sensor networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• M2M networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Personal Area networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• P2P networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Heterogeneous networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Management of Software Defined Networking (SDN)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Management Approaches</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Centralized management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Distributed management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Autonomic and self-management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Policy-based management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Integrated management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Management architectures</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Service Management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Multimedia service management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Managed service provisioning</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• OTT service management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data service management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• IT service management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Hosting</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data center management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Cloud computing</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Virtualized infrastructure management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Infrastructure as a Service</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Platform as a Service</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Software as a Service</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Management as a Service</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Management Enablers & Technologies</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Protocols</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Middleware</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Web Services</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Mobile agents</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data, information, and semantic modeling</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Virtualization</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Message and software buses</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Social networking</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Network programmability</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Software product lines</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Software engineering for clouds</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Management Functions</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Deployment</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Service Fulfillment</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Service Assurance</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Service Level Management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Fault management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Security Management, IDS, IPS</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Billing</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Energy management</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Methodologies for Network Operations and Management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Control theory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Optimization theory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Economic theory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Machine learning</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data mining</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Probability, stochastic processes, and queuing theory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Design and simulation</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Experimental approaches</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Visualization</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data collection and aggregation</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Software engineering methodologies</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the IM 2013 web site. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. The authors of the IM 2013 top papers will be encouraged to extend their work and submit to IEEE TNSM (IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. These extended papers will undergo the normal TNSM peer-review process.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>IMPORTANT DATES</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paper submission: August 16, 2012</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2012</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Camera ready submission: January 15, 2013</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>GENERAL CO-CHAIRS</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Alexander Clemm, Cisco, USA</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>TPC CO-CHAIRS</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Filip De Turck, Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><u>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE</u></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Osamu Akashi, NTT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Shingo Ata, Osaka City University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Remi Badonnel, University of Nancy - LORIA</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Javier Baliosian, University of the Republic</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Arosha Bandara, The Open University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• David Breitgand, IBM - Haifa Research Lab</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Ritu Chadha, Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Marinos Charalambides, University College London</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett Packard Labs</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Mi-Jung Choi, Kangwon National University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Isabelle Chrisment, LORIA - University of Nancy 1</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Hermann De Meer, University of Passau</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• José De Souza, UFC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Bart De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Luca Deri, ntop.org</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yixin Diao, IBM Research</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Aldri dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Paraná</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Guillaume Doyen, UTT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Elias P. Duarte Jr., UFPR</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Tamar Eilam, IBM</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Liam Fallon, Ericsson</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Metin Feridun, IBM Research</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Joel Fleck II, Hewlett Packard</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jérôme François, University of Luxembourg</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Stéphane Frénot, INRIA Amazones</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yacine Ghamri-Doudane , ENSIIE & Université Paris-Est (LIGM lab)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco Systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Go Hasegawa, Osaka University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC Laboratories Europe</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• James Hong, POSTECH</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Brendan Jennings, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Hongtaek Ju, Keimyung University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jinho Kim, NTT DOCOMO, INC.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Myung-Sup Kim, Korea University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women's Univ.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Osaka University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Steven Latré, Ghent University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Noura Limam, University of Waterloo</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jorge López de Vergara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Emil Lupu, Imperial College</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Leonidas Lymberopoulos, National Technical University of Athens</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, EPFL</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Michael Menth, University of Tuebingen</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jose-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Michele Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Paraná</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Gerard Parr, University of Ulster</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• George Pavlou, University College London</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Aiko Pras, University of Twente</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Danny Raz, Technion</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Ramin Sadre, University of Twente</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jacques Sauvé, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Morris Sloman, Imperial College London</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Anna Sperotto, University of Twente</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Rolf Stadler, KTH</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Radu State, University of Luxembourg</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Malgorzata Steinder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• John Strassner, Huawei</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Makoto Takano, NTT</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Vanish Talwar, HP Laboratories</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Toshio Tonouchi, NEC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Sven van der Meer, Ericsson</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Zhikui Wang, HP Laboratories </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Christopher Ward, SiriusXM</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Carlos Westphall, Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• S. Felix Wu, University of California at Davis</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Jiahai Yang, Tsinghua University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Artur Ziviani, LNCC</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">For more information, please contact one of the TPC Co-Chairs at tpcchairs@im2013.org </font><br>
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