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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">We have received many individual requests for extensions and we are also interested in ensuring a high quality technical program. Therefore we have decided to extend the paper registration and submission deadlines to May 13, 2013. This will be the final extension.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Keep up the good work in finalizing your submissions. We look forward to your paper submissions!</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards and thanks,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">CNSM 2013 Organizing Committee</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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</font><img src="cid:1__=0ABBF1F3DFFA19E48f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" width="1323" height="328"><div align="center"><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><b>CNSM 2013<br>
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The 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management <br>
Zürich, Switzerland, 14-18 October 2013</b></font><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u><br>
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</u></font><a href="http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2013/"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b><u>http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2013/</u></b></font></a><font size="3" face="sans-serif"><b><br>
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</b></font><font size="3" color="#FF0000" face="sans-serif"><b>(Paper Submission Date: 13 May 2013)</b></font></div><br>
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The International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) has become a premier venue for the presentation of novel results and experience reports in all aspects of management of networks, pervasive systems, enterprise and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2013 will take place in Zürich, Switzerland. The conference is organized around a single track of paper presentations where fundamental research results are discussed. <br>
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This core track is accompanied by series of workshops, tutorials and poster sessions where more focus discussions and progress reports are presented. CNSM invites academic, government, and industry researchers to submit papers to be presented in the core track of the conference. All areas of Network and Service management are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: <br>
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General Management Issues <br>
• Monitoring, correlation and diagnosis <br>
• Performance management, fault management and reconfiguration <br>
• Resource allocation and optimization <br>
• IT services, business impact analysis and business process management <br>
• Configuration and accounting <br>
• Security, trust and privacy <br>
• Energy management and optimization <br>
• QoS management <br>
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Network Management <br>
• IP operations and management <br>
• Broadband access networks <br>
• Overlay and virtual networks <br>
• Wireless and mobile networks <br>
• Hybrid and next-generation networks <br>
• Data Center Networks <br>
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Management and Adaptation in <br>
• Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Cities <br>
• Sensor networks, opportunistic and mobile ad-hoc networks <br>
• Pervasive systems including Body Area Networks, Vehicular and Home Networks <br>
• Cloud computing and Grid Environments <br>
• Enterprise Systems and Federations <br>
• SOA and Web services <br>
• Multimedia and data services <br>
• Data centers <br>
• Social networks, cloud based applications <br>
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Management Techniques and New Paradigms <br>
• Self-Management and adaptation <br>
• Economic models for management <br>
• Policy-based and declarative models of management <br>
• Virtualization <br>
• Control theory and optimization <br>
• Content centric networking <br>
• Stochastic models and machine learning in management <br>
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers, not published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can be of two types: full or short papers. Submissions will be limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. <br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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</font><font size="2" color="#FF0000" face="sans-serif">Paper Registration: May 13, 2013 <br>
Paper Submission: May 13, 2013</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> <br>
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2013 <br>
Camera Ready Papers: August 15, 2013 <br>
Conference Dates: October 14-18, 2013 <br>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
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General Chair<br>
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland<br>
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TPC Co-Chairs<br>
Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany<br>
Metin Feridun, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland<br>
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Workshop Chair<br>
Rui L. Aguiar, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal<br>
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Publicity Co-Chairs<br>
Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA<br>
Filip De Turck, Ghent University, iMedia, Belgium<br>
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Steering Committee<br>
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany<br>
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France<br>
James Hong, POSTECH, Korea<br>
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA<br>
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands<br>
Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA<br>
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CNSM 2013: The 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management<br>
Zürich, Switzerland, 14-18 October 2013</font>
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