[ecoop-info] Submission deadline extended to 2 Jan 2011 CFP: IFIP/IEEE DANMS 2011 (co-located with IM 2011)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IFIP/IEEE DANMS 2011
Forth International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems
Co-located with IM 2011, Dublin, Ireland
www.danms.org

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 2 Jan 2011 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: 30 Jan 2011
Camera-ready paper: 15 Feb 2011

Paper Submission URL
https://jems.sbc.org.br/danms2011

The DANMS 2011 workshop is part of a series of workshops dedicated to advances in network management and the application of new management principles in network design.
This year’s workshop emphasizes on “Efficient Management of Loosely Collaborative Service Networks” where network connectivity providers, content and service providers come together to provide high-level services such as Over-The-Top (OTT) services to end-users in a loosely collaborative way.
In the recent past, end-user services such as high quality video calls, web-based video content servers, HD video streaming and VoD services etc. have driven the telecom market. The appearance of these new content/service providers, which include so called Over-The-Top (OTT) service providers, has driven network usage, but also created huge network management problems for the operators. In this context, content/service providers together with network operators provide value to the subscribers in a “loosely collaborative” fashion. Service assurance in this loose collaborative environment is challenging, particularly in the presence of a network with limited or no guarantees. This nascent eco-system is driving fundamental changes in how networks are deployed and managed as well as how they interact with content and service providers. In this context, together with wider network management contributions, we expect to have technical contributions in the areas of automated service assurance and in loosely collaborative service networks.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

 * Federated network management
 * Impact of Over the Top (OTT) services in resource management
 * Case studies of service assurance
 * Efficient use of terminal reports in service assurance
 * SLA for OTT service assurance
 * Service and resource modelling approaches for management
 * Business rules and organizational modelling
 * Use of semantics in service deployment and quality assurance
 * Extensions and refinements of NM standards
 * Aspects of service management and assurance
 * Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers
 * Fault and performance management, diagnosis, and troubleshooting
 * End-to-end QoS management for enterprise networks
 * Measurements and insights from network operations
 * Metrics, techniques, and experiments for evaluating network
 * Convergence of fixed and mobile networks

Steering Committee
 Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne France
 Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada
 Gabriel Hogan, Network Management Lab, Ericsson, Ireland

Workshop Co-Chairs
 Sidath Handurukande, Network Management Lab, Ericsson Ireland
 Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil

Publicity Chair
 Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland

Technical Program Committee
 Arosha Bandara, Open University, UK
 Javier Baliosian, Uni. of the Republic, Uruguay
 Saleem Bhatti, Uni. of St Andrews, UK
 Sami Bhiri, DERI, Ireland
 Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ericsson, Ireland
 Anca Chandra, IBM Research, USA
 Dave Cleary, Ericsson, Ireland
 Zoran Despotovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
 Dominique Dudkowski, NEC, Germany
 Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland
 James Hong, POSTECH, Korea
 Jesse Kielthy, TSSG, Ireland
 Francine Krief, Bordeaux 1 University, France
 Petr Kuznetsov, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
 Brian Lee, AIT, Ireland
 Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK
 Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal
 Florian Schreiner, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
 Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden
 Martin van Steen, Vrje University, Netherlands
 Filip De Turck, Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium
 Stefan Wallin, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
 Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria

Paper Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit papers of maximum six pages or extended papers of up to eight pages (including figures, tables, and references), in the standard two-column, 11 pt font, IEEE conference paper format. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html.
All work submitted must be original, not previously published or under submission at other venues.
At least one author of accepted papers must be present at the workshop, to present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Xplore and indexed accordingly.
Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through JEMS at the URL below:
https://jems.sbc.org.br/danms2011