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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 would like to remind you that the deadline for the IFIP/IEEE IM 2015 Experience Session papers is coming shortly on September 15, 2014.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The goal of the Experience Session program is to complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learned in studying, implementing, and deploying management technologies. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technology, implementation examples of new management technology, organizational impact, and business cases.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Despite the Experience Session traditionally being one of the most industry-oriented sessions of the IM/NOMS conference series, we would also like to encourage the submission of research contributions from the academia - especially in innovative topics such as big data, software defined networks, management of smart cities, and IoT management.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">We would very much appreciate if you could help us to disseminate the following CFP within your organizations and to any friends and colleagues of yours that you think might be interested.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">For more information, please refer to the following web page and do not hesitate to contact us.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/experience-session-papers">http://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/experience-session-papers</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Sincerely,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Mauro Tortonesi and Yixin Diao</font><br>
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Call for Experience Session Papers<br>
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The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management<br>
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Ottawa, Canada, 11-15 May 2015<br>
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(Paper Submission Date: 15 September 2014)<br>
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The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2015) will be held 11-15 May 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2015 follows the 27 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 2015 will focus on the theme "Integrated Management in the Age of Big Data" presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with Big Data as well as using it for management solutions. IM 2015 will offer five types of sessions: technical, experience, poster, panel and dissertation digest. The goal of the Experience Session program is to complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learned in studying, implementing, and deploying management technologies. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technology, implementation examples of new management technology, organizational impact, and business cases. <br>
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Topics of Interest<br>
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Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. <br>
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• Management case studies and best practices<br>
• Issues and experiences with practical deployments<br>
• Software Defined Networks and enabling technologies<br>
• Open source SDN frameworks, Open Daylight<br>
• Experiences with OpenFlow deployments<br>
• Orchestration and SDN controllers<br>
• Network function virtualization implementations<br>
• Data center automation<br>
• Management of cloud<br>
• Cloud service assurance<br>
• Management of grids and smart grids<br>
• Big Data analytics in management<br>
• Management of virtualized environments<br>
• OSS/BSS development<br>
• Virtualization of operation centers and help desks<br>
• Organizational aspects of IT service management<br>
• Risk Management and IT governance<br>
• Service engineering and operational challenges<br>
• Management of emerging networks and services<br>
• Green management and managing energy efficiency<br>
• Building automation and management<br>
• Smart buildings, industrial automation and management<br>
• Experiences with autonomic networking and self-management<br>
• Application of machine learning and data mining to management<br>
• Advances in standardization<br>
• Management information models<br>
• Management standards and enabling technologies<br>
• Integration technologies for management<br>
• Managing interactive media<br>
• Social networking infrastructure and management<br>
• Event correlation, diagnostics, fault, performance management<br>
• Billing and accounting models and service level management<br>
• Business alignment of IT service management<br>
• Experiences with Call Home frameworks<br>
• Managed service provider issues<br>
• Service delivery and service assurance<br>
• Experiences with process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, eTOM)<br>
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Submission Instructions <br>
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions using the JEMS conference submission system at </font><a href="https://jems.sbc.org.br/im2015_expsession"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>https://jems.sbc.org.br/im2015_expsession</u></font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">. All submissions must be written in English and have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers for the Experience Sessions must adhere to one of the following two format options:<br>
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• Option 1: Annotated Slides. Papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions must not exceed 15 annotated slides including title and references, in PDF only. <br>
• Option 2: IEEE 2-column format. This is the same format as for Technical Sessions. Paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages, in PDF only. <br>
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Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors, in case of paper acceptance, to register for IM 2015 and present the contribution in the conference. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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Paper submission: September 15th, 2014<br>
Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2014<br>
Camera ready submission: February 1st, 2015</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Program Committee</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco Systems, USA<br>
Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA<br>
Anuj Sehgal, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany<br>
Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos, UFRGS, Brazil<br>
Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
Dorothea Wiesmann, IBM Zurich, Switzerland<br>
Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre, Germany<br>
Henning Sanneck, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG, Germany<br>
Jerry Rolia, HP Laboratories, USA<br>
Joe Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA<br>
Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany<br>
Lars Christoph Schmelz, Nokia Networks, Germany<br>
Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland<br>
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil<br>
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy<br>
Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland<br>
Martin Zach, Siemens Convergence Creators GmbH, Austria<br>
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France<br>
Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
Sai Zeng, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA<br>
Shinji Kikuchi, FUJITSU LABORATORIES LIMITED, Japan<br>
Sinem Guven, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA<br>
Stefan Wallin, Tail-f Systems, Sweden<br>
Steven Latré, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium<br>
Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya Labs Research, USA<br>
Susana Sargento, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal<br>
Sven van der Meer, Ericsson, Ireland<br>
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc, USA<br>
Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan<br>
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Experience Session Co-Chairs<br>
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Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA<br>
Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy<br>
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For more information, please contact the experience session co-chairs at im2015expsession@gmail.com</font><font size="3" face="serif"><br>
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