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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Special Track: Data Centric Cloud and Network Management</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Krakow, Poland, 5-9 May 2014</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://noms2014.ieee-noms.org/">http://noms2014.ieee-noms.org/</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> (Paper Submission Date: 15 January 2014)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Cloud and network analytics can harness the immense stream of operational data from clouds and networks, and can perform analytics processing---possibly in-network, possibly in real-time---to improve fault, performance, and security management. As the premier venue on network and cloud management, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) debuts a special track on Data Centric Cloud and Network Management to be held in Krakow, Poland, 5-9 May 2014. As part of the main technical sessions, this special track will provide a dedicated and timely venue for presenting and publishing the latest results in cloud and network analytics. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Topics of Interest</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Networks and cloud analytics</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Social data for management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Analyzing logs and operational data for management tasks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data-centric management of clouds and software defined networks </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data-centric management of virtualized infrastructure</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data-centric data center management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Storage systems and networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Real-time analytics</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Data mining and machine learning for management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">• Statistical modeling, queueing theory, control theory, and optimization for management</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paper Submission</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers (excluding references). All papers should be submitted through JEMS at </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2014-data_centric_management">https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2014-data_centric_management</a></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">To be published in the IEEE NOMS 2014 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE NOMS 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Important Dates</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paper submission: Jan 15, 2014</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Author notification: Feb 15, 2014</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Final paper due: Mar 1, 2014</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Conference date: May 5-9, 2014</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Special Track Co-Chairs</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Krakow, Poland, 5-9 May 2014</font><br>
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