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<span style="text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network </span><span style="text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Management Systems</span><br style="text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Co-located with IM 2013, </span>Ghent University, Belgium<br style="text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.danms.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-align:start;font-family:arial,sans-serif">www.danms.org</a></span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The 6^th IFIP/IEEE </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems 2013 (DANMS 2013)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> workshop is part of a series of workshops dedicated to advances in network management and the applications of new management principles in network design. This year the DANMS 2013 will be held on 31 May 2013 at Ghent University, Belgium.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">With the emergence of cloud computing, increasing IT capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet for on-demand access at anywhere anytime. Networks provide the delivery platform for services and it is important for network operators to ensure the reliability of the delivery platform so that both service providers and consumers can trust and rely on the network. Many aspects of cloud services including, large number of services, rapid evolvement of service implementations, virtualized infrastructures, large number of users, lack of direct control over services, etc., make network operators face great challenges on network management for  service delivery. DANMS 2013 will focus on “<i>Managing Networks for Service Delivery</i>”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Enterprise</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> class service monitoring and analysis for mobile networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Efficient use of radio/network KPIs in service assurance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Monitoring and analysis approaches for service aware networks</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Autonomic network management for service assurance</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Case studies of cloud service assurance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Use cases of services for network or service management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Service management for heterogeneous networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Network optimization and analysis focusing on various services</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Use of semantics to enable service deployment, composition, and quality assurance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Service aware networks and service aware network management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Predictive analytics for network or cloud services</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SLAs for cloud service assurance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Network management of virtualized infrastructures</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Apply new techniques and technologies for cloud service assurance</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Recommender systems for cloud service assurance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Resource modeling and planning for service and network management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Techniques for efficient gathering, distributing and processing monitoring data</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Automated service provisioning and/or management across multiple service providers</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mapping of low-level network monitoring data to richer service level information</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Insights from using streamed network/service monitoring data</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fault and performance management, diagnosis, and troubleshooting</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">End-to-end QoS and performance monitoring and management for enterprise networks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Metrics, techniques, and experiments for evaluating network management architectures</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Opportunistic uses of similar services by customers</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Academic and industrial researchers are invited to submit full papers (6 pages, double column) describing original work relating to the topics presented. All manuscripts must be written in English and should be prepared in IEEE conference style. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the members of DANMS Technical Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present their paper at the workshop.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paper submission deadline:       15 December 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance:          1 February 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Camera-ready paper:                 10 February 2013</span></p>
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