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IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 (EXTENDED AND FIRM DEADLINES) – CALL FOR PAPERS
by Sergio Armando Gutierrez Betancur 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

============================================== We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFP to your friends, colleagues and social networks. We have new extended (and firm) deadlines! =============================================== ****************************************************************************** IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet) Co-located with IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2022 Apr 25--29, 2022 // Budapest, Hungary https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome ******************************************************************************** The Seventh IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) from April 25th to 29th 2022 in Budapest, Hungary Following the success of the six previous editions of this workshop, the main goal of AnNet is to present research and experience results in the area of data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning are promising mechanisms to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. AnNet 2022 will include original full-paper presentations and short-paper sessions. The workshop attendees will be stimulated to participate in interesting discussions. To this end, position papers, short papers describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research and experimental work are also welcome. TOPICS OF INTEREST ========================= We invite our community to contribute with manuscripts describing novel, work‑in‑progress research on the design of solutions to relevant security issues on a wide variety of next generation networking technologies. The topics of interest include: Data analytics * Analysis, modeling and visualization * Operational analytics and intelligence * Event, log and big data analytics * Network traffic analysis * Anomaly detection and prediction * Crowd sensing * Monitoring and measurements for management * Predictive and real-time analytics * Harnessing social data for management Machine learning techniques * Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning * Clustering and data mining * Reinforcement learning * Multi-agent based learning * Deep learning * Bayesian methods * Ensemble methods * Cognitive computing * Mining spatiotemporal and time series data Network management paradigms * Autonomous and autonomic networks * Fog/edge computing * In-network processing * Bio-inspired networks and self-management * Cognitive and software defined networks * Network function virtualization * Security, fault, performance, and resource management * Intent-based networking * Programmable data planes Application domains * Computer networks * Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Clouds and data centers * Virtualized infrastructures * Internet of Things * Computing and network services * IT service management, storage resource management AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS ========================= Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to the workshop. All contributions must be submitted in PDF format via JEMS submission system (https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019) There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Hence, please submit on the corresponding track that you will find on JEMS. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. The accepted papers will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present their paper at the workshop. Also, authors of selected workshop papers will be fast-tracked for the publication of extended articles in the Springer Journal of Network and System Management (JNSM) IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED AND FIRM DEADLINES) ========================= Paper Submission: February 13th, 2022 Acceptance: March 13th, 2022 Camera-ready: Mar 27th, 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ========================= GENERAL CHAIR * Juan Felipe Botero Vega (University of Antioquia, Colombia) TPC CHAIRS * Adrián Lara (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica) * Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur (Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Colombia) STEERING COMMITTEE * Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Filip De Turck (Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium) * Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA) * Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur, Ph.D. Research Lecturer sergio.gutierrezbe(a)unaula.edu.co Oficina 418, Bloque 1 Carrera 55 Nº 49 - 51 Medellín, Colombia

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IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 (EXTENDED AND FIRM DEADLINES) – CALL FOR PAPERS
by Sergio Armando Gutierrez Betancur 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

============================================== We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFP to your friends, colleagues and social networks. We have new extended (and firm) deadlines! =============================================== ****************************************************************************** IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet) Co-located with IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2022 Apr 25--29, 2022 // Budapest, Hungary https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome ******************************************************************************** The Seventh IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) from April 25th to 29th 2022 in Budapest, Hungary Following the success of the six previous editions of this workshop, the main goal of AnNet is to present research and experience results in the area of data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning are promising mechanisms to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. AnNet 2022 will include original full-paper presentations and short-paper sessions. The workshop attendees will be stimulated to participate in interesting discussions. To this end, position papers, short papers describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research and experimental work are also welcome. TOPICS OF INTEREST ========================= We invite our community to contribute with manuscripts describing novel, work‑in‑progress research on the design of solutions to relevant security issues on a wide variety of next generation networking technologies. The topics of interest include: Data analytics * Analysis, modeling and visualization * Operational analytics and intelligence * Event, log and big data analytics * Network traffic analysis * Anomaly detection and prediction * Crowd sensing * Monitoring and measurements for management * Predictive and real-time analytics * Harnessing social data for management Machine learning techniques * Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning * Clustering and data mining * Reinforcement learning * Multi-agent based learning * Deep learning * Bayesian methods * Ensemble methods * Cognitive computing * Mining spatiotemporal and time series data Network management paradigms * Autonomous and autonomic networks * Fog/edge computing * In-network processing * Bio-inspired networks and self-management * Cognitive and software defined networks * Network function virtualization * Security, fault, performance, and resource management * Intent-based networking * Programmable data planes Application domains * Computer networks * Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Clouds and data centers * Virtualized infrastructures * Internet of Things * Computing and network services * IT service management, storage resource management AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS ========================= Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to the workshop. All contributions must be submitted in PDF format via JEMS submission system (https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019) There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Hence, please submit on the corresponding track that you will find on JEMS. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. The accepted papers will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present their paper at the workshop. Also, authors of selected workshop papers will be fast-tracked for the publication of extended articles in the Springer Journal of Network and System Management (JNSM) IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED AND FIRM DEADLINES) ========================= Paper Submission: February 13th, 2022 Acceptance: March 13th, 2022 Camera-ready: Mar 27th, 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ========================= GENERAL CHAIR * Juan Felipe Botero Vega (University of Antioquia, Colombia) TPC CHAIRS * Adrián Lara (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica) * Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur (Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Colombia) STEERING COMMITTEE * Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Filip De Turck (Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium) * Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA) * Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur, Ph.D. Research Lecturer sergio.gutierrezbe(a)unaula.edu.co Oficina 418, Bloque 1 Carrera 55 Nº 49 - 51 Medellín, Colombia

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Free live webinar on Wed, Jan 25, 2021, 5pm CET I Carol Fung (Virginia Commonwealth University, US) – Security and Privacy Protection for IoT Networks
by Marc-Oliver Pahl 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Dear all, since one year I am running a monthly free and live interview series on cybersecurity. The topic is of central importance for so many domains and applications. The goal of the series is to dive into the cybersecurity field from various angles. The series happens every last Wednesday of the month -so TODAY- at 5pm CET. You are cordially invited to join live. Please also inform your friends! Best, Marc-Oliver p.s.: On https://talk.cybercni.fr you also find all previous editions! Share and like: On Jan 25, 2021, 5pm CET I Carol Fung (Virginia Commonwealth University, US), will talk about “Security and Privacy Protection for IoT Networks“. Watch the trailer here. You are cordially invited to join the free live stream on youtube and LinkedIn! To register and subscribe to the series announcements, just enter your mail address in the box on the left at https://talk.cybercni.fr/. Please share the link https://talk.cybercni.fr/2022-01 with your interested friends! Do not hesitate to like, comment, and share the news with your company and friends on our website and in our social media accounts (see bottom)! Find the full article at https://cybercni.fr/2021/12/17/wed-jan-25-2021-5pm-cet-i-carol-fung-virgini… We are looking forward to hearing from you! Marc-Oliver Pahl and the entire Chaire Cyber CNI team -- Marc-Oliver PAHL Professor at IMT Atlantique, FR Adjunct Professor Carleton University, CA Vice-President German Chapter of the ACM Head of the Chair Cyber CNI Past-Director of the UMR LAB-STICC/IRIS research unit Coordinator Future Education German-French Academy Head IoT s2o research team at TU München tel.07.83.26.94.99IMT Atlantique Campus Rennes 2, rue de la Châtaigneraie CS 17608 35576 Cesson Sévigné Cedex Une école de l'IMT Visit cybercni.fr | talk.cybercni.fr | future-iot.org | ilabx.ilabxp.com

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Call for NOMS 2022 Workshop Papers - Deadline extended (Feb. 13th, 2022)!!!
by Tortonesi Mauro 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS - NOMS 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************* The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) will be held on 25-29 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2022 will follow the 34 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. NOMS 2022 will feature the following 10 co-located workshops, which will be held immediately prior or after the main Technical Program, to further disseminate fine-tuned research, and that are organized around the main conference theme: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to check the website of each workshop to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions through the JEMS conference management system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st workshop on Autonomous Network Management in 5G and beyond systems (ANMS 2022) Website: https://h2020daemon.eu/workshop-ansm-2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4018 New networking systems aim to be fully Autonomous Networks (ANs) with management capabilities such as self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-evolving, aspects that today’s networks do not support as their management is mainly manual with some automated assistance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) (and more precisely Machine Learning (ML)) algorithms are promising to empower the new generation of intelligent decision engines that present self-dynamic capabilities to fully realize ANs. ANMS workshop focuses on novel research in AI-based and hybrid approaches (AI + non-AI) algorithms for AN management (closed-loop control) and Framework, algorithms, techniques, and tools to build and support AI-based solutions for ANs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019 AnNet aims to present research and experience results in data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning are promising to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tnt-2022/home Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4020 Digital twins provide virtual and real-time representations of physical networks and empower network designers and operators to achieve simplified, automatic, evidence-driven, and resilient full life-cycle operation and maintenance. Digital twin networking has seen a continuous and rising interest from the research, engineering, and operational communities in recent years, with proposals on base technologies, architectures, and practical implementations. TNT will explore the duality created by i) using digital twin technologies to enable new ways of managing and operating networks and digital infrastructures and ii) the challenges emerging from the management of large-scale digital twins requiring innovative forms of networked systems management. Federation, data fusion, interoperability, and integrability of heterogeneous network twins in multi-provider, multi-operator and multi-domains/multi-applications environments will become increasingly important considerations to allow digital twin technologies to deliver their full potential and value across all industries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International workshop on “Fully-Flexible Internet Architectures and Protocols for the Next-Generation Tactile Internet” (FlexNGIA 2022) Website: https://www.flexngia.net/workshop-flexngia-2022 Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4021 The rise of edge, Cloud and in-network computing and the proliferation of AI solutions in networking are promoting the development of innovative applications like virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, autonomous systems, remotely controlled robotics and tactile applications, promising to revolutionize health-care, transportation, industry, agriculture, society and culture. To deploy such applications and to comply with their requirements, there is a need for new Internet architectures and protocols allowing a Tactile Internet that combines ultra low latency with extremely high availability, reliability and security. T . Such novel architectures and protocols are embodied in several initiatives like FlexNGIA (https://www.FlexNGIA.net) or projects like Teraflow (https://www.teraflow-h2020.eu) This workshop has the purpose of investigating how to rethink the current Internet and to devise new architectures and protocols by efficiently harnessing recent technological advances in virtualization, network softwarization, NFV/SDN, and Data plane programmability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International workshop on Graph-based network Security (GraSec 2022) Website: https://grasec.uni.lu/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4022 Graph-based modeling offers the advantage of understanding complex attacks and determining the root cause of an attack. However, existing graph mining tools for anomaly detection over streaming events are not adapted for cyber-security problems while the corresponding data continuously appears in the form of complex graphs. The main goal of GraSec is to present research and experience results in graph applications on network and cybersecurity as well as the defensive and offensive tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Intelligence Provisioning for Network and Service Management in Softwarized Networks (IPSN 2022) Web site: https://ipsn2022.spilab.es/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4023 The main goal of IPSN Workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of AI/ML for network management on softwarized networks, addressing topics such as artificial intelligence techniques and models for network and service management in softwarized networks; smart service orchestration, training process at the constrained edge, dynamic Service Function Chaining, Intent and policy based management, centralized vs distributed control of SDN/NFV based networks, analytics and big data approaches, knowledge creation and decision making. This workshop offers a timely venue for researchers and industry partners to present and discuss their latest results in the application of network intelligence to the management of softwarized networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022) Web site: https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4024 The aim of the ITAVT workshop is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and vehicle technology. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITAVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of smart cities and other application domains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Manage-IoT 2022) Web site: https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4025 The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things, including resource, data, service, and security management. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0 (MFI4.0 2022) Web site: http://management-for-industry40.icb.at/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4026 The Industry 4.0 revolution presents a multitude of management related challenges including the transition from ISA-95 to RAMI4.0/IIRA based automation for production automation, the integration of legacy OT with emerging IT technologies, the automation/digitalisation across value networks involving a multitude of stakeholders in complex relationships, and the formation of large to very large System of Systems (SoS). This workshop will focus on a number of core engineering and management issues for Industry 4.0, associated theory, architectures, frameworks, security and experimental experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd workshop on Tools and Concepts for Communication and Networked Systems (TCoNS 2022) Web site: http://comsys.ovgu.de/TCoNS.html Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4027 The Internet of Things (IoT) and related future networking concepts promise the ubiquitous availability of data. In the near future, service-oriented interaction will become part of IoT design principles, forming a new type of emergent behavior. New methods, models, and algorithms are necessary in order to ensure functionality, resiliency, and security. The workshop addresses current research related to the implementation and realization of future IoT applications and systems. Particular focus is put on concepts, tools, and the toolchains that are required for this endeavor. Furthermore, flexible right management, capability and performance profiles, and request evaluation for dynamically composed IoT settings will be targeted. We want to discuss how to realize abstract representations of these aspects in order to automatically react to adapted requests, changed network configurations, or system states. ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Deadline (extended): 13 February 2022 - Paper Acceptance Notification (extended): 13 March 2022 - Camera-ready Version Due (extended): 27 March 2022 -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022)- Co-located with NOMS2022 [Extended Deadline]
by Ons Bouachir 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

The 5th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies- ITAVT 2022* (https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/) in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP *Network Operations and Management Symposium- NOMS2022* 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary (https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Designing a smart autonomous transportation system is one of the key factors of building safe and sustainable smart cities. In the age of softwarization and artificial intelligence, introducing intelligent transportation solutions to our cities offers various range of benefits including reliable and efficient traffic management in safer streets. Such transportation systems combined with cutting-edge vehicular and wireless network technologies face several unprecedented challenges. These include adapting vehicular cloud and network services to the dynamic user requirements, managing available cloud computing resources, big data analytics, connected vehicle network security issues, service composition, and power management. The aim of the Fifth International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT) *is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the intelligent transportation and vehicle technology advances. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in intelligent transportation systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, software, tools, and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of networking, service management, Artificial intelligence, and cloud systems. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems, and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Management and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Vehicular cloud management * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Communications and networking for Automated and semi-automated vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Congestion and awareness control in Autonomous Vehicles * In-Vehicle Networks and Communications * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Networking with Other Road Users *General Co-Chairs:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *Important Dates:* -Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2022* February 13, 2022* -Paper acceptance notification: February 27, 2022 March 13, 2022 -Camera-ready version due: March 27, 2022

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IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 (EXTENDED DEADLINES) – CALL FOR PAPERS
by Sergio Armando Gutierrez Betancur 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

============================================== We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. We appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFP to your friends, colleagues and social networks. Deadline for paper submission has been extended! =============================================== ****************************************************************************** IEEE/IFIP AnNet 2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet) Co-located with IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2022 Apr 25--29, 2022 // Budapest, Hungary https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome ******************************************************************************** The Seventh IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) from April 25th to 29th 2022 in Budapest, Hungary Following the success of the six previous editions of this workshop, the main goal of AnNet is to present research and experience results in the area of data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning are promising mechanisms to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. AnNet 2022 will include original full-paper presentations and short-paper sessions. The workshop attendees will be stimulated to participate in interesting discussions. To this end, position papers, short papers describing late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research and experimental work are also welcome. TOPICS OF INTEREST ========================= We invite our community to contribute with manuscripts describing novel, work‑in‑progress research on the design of solutions to relevant security issues on a wide variety of next generation networking technologies. The topics of interest include: Data analytics * Analysis, modeling and visualization * Operational analytics and intelligence * Event, log and big data analytics * Network traffic analysis * Anomaly detection and prediction * Crowd sensing * Monitoring and measurements for management * Predictive and real-time analytics * Harnessing social data for management Machine learning techniques * Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning * Clustering and data mining * Reinforcement learning * Multi-agent based learning * Deep learning * Bayesian methods * Ensemble methods * Cognitive computing * Mining spatiotemporal and time series data Network management paradigms * Autonomous and autonomic networks * Fog/edge computing * In-network processing * Bio-inspired networks and self-management * Cognitive and software defined networks * Network function virtualization * Security, fault, performance, and resource management * Intent-based networking * Programmable data planes Application domains * Computer networks * Mobile ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Clouds and data centers * Virtualized infrastructures * Internet of Things * Computing and network services * IT service management, storage resource management AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS ========================= Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to the workshop. All contributions must be submitted in PDF format via JEMS submission system (https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019) There is a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) for regular papers, and 4 pages for short papers describing work in progress. Hence, please submit on the corresponding track that you will find on JEMS. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. The accepted papers will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present their paper at the workshop. Also, authors of selected workshop papers will be fast-tracked for the publication of extended articles in the Springer Journal of Network and System Management (JNSM) IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED) ========================= Paper Submission: February 6th, 2022 Acceptance: March 13th, 2022 Camera-ready: Mar 27th, 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ========================= GENERAL CHAIR * Juan Felipe Botero Vega (University of Antioquia, Colombia) TPC CHAIRS * Adrián Lara (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica) * Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur (Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Colombia) STEERING COMMITTEE * Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Filip De Turck (Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium) * Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan College, USA) * Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur, Ph.D. Research Lecturer sergio.gutierrezbe(a)unaula.edu.co Oficina 418, Bloque 1 Carrera 55 Nº 49 - 51 Medellín, Colombia

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The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022)- Co-located with NOMS2022
by Julia Marino 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

The 5th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies- ITAVT 2022* (https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/) in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP *Network Operations and Management Symposium- NOMS2022* 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary (https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Designing a smart autonomous transportation system is one of the key factors of building safe and sustainable smart cities. In the age of softwarization and artificial intelligence, introducing intelligent transportation solutions to our cities offers various range of benefits including reliable and efficient traffic management in safer streets. Such transportation systems combined with cutting-edge vehicular and wireless network technologies face several unprecedented challenges. These include adapting vehicular cloud and network services to the dynamic user requirements, managing available cloud computing resources, big data analytics, connected vehicle network security issues, service composition, and power management. The aim of the Fifth International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT) *is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the intelligent transportation and vehicle technology advances. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in intelligent transportation systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, software, tools, and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of networking, service management, Artificial intelligence, and cloud systems. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems, and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Management and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Vehicular cloud management * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Communications and networking for Automated and semi-automated vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Congestion and awareness control in Autonomous Vehicles * In-Vehicle Networks and Communications * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Networking with Other Road Users *General Co-Chairs:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *Important Dates:* -Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2022 -Paper acceptance notification: February 27, 2022 -Camera-ready version due: March 13, 2022

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Call for NOMS 2022 Workshop Papers - Less than 2 weeks to deadline (Jan. 23rd, 2022)
by Tortonesi Mauro 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS - NOMS 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************* The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) will be held on 25-29 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2022 will follow the 34 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. NOMS 2022 will feature the following 10 co-located workshops, which will be held immediately prior or after the main Technical Program, to further disseminate fine-tuned research, and that are organized around the main conference theme: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to check the website of each workshop to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions through the JEMS conference management system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st workshop on Autonomous Network Management in 5G and beyond systems (ANMS 2022) Website: https://h2020daemon.eu/workshop-ansm-2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4018 New networking systems aim to be fully Autonomous Networks (ANs) with management capabilities such as self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-evolving, aspects that today’s networks do not support as their management is mainly manual with some automated assistance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) (and more precisely Machine Learning (ML)) algorithms are promising to empower the new generation of intelligent decision engines that present self-dynamic capabilities to fully realize ANs. ANMS workshop focuses on novel research in AI-based and hybrid approaches (AI + non-AI) algorithms for AN management (closed-loop control) and Framework, algorithms, techniques, and tools to build and support AI-based solutions for ANs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019 AnNet aims to present research and experience results in data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning are promising to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tnt-2022/home Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4020 Digital twins provide virtual and real-time representations of physical networks and empower network designers and operators to achieve simplified, automatic, evidence-driven, and resilient full life-cycle operation and maintenance. Digital twin networking has seen a continuous and rising interest from the research, engineering, and operational communities in recent years, with proposals on base technologies, architectures, and practical implementations. TNT will explore the duality created by i) using digital twin technologies to enable new ways of managing and operating networks and digital infrastructures and ii) the challenges emerging from the management of large-scale digital twins requiring innovative forms of networked systems management. Federation, data fusion, interoperability, and integrability of heterogeneous network twins in multi-provider, multi-operator and multi-domains/multi-applications environments will become increasingly important considerations to allow digital twin technologies to deliver their full potential and value across all industries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International workshop on “Fully-Flexible Internet Architectures and Protocols for the Next-Generation Tactile Internet” (FlexNGIA 2022) Website: https://www.flexngia.net/workshop-flexngia-2022 Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4021 The rise of edge, Cloud and in-network computing and the proliferation of AI solutions in networking are promoting the development of innovative applications like virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, autonomous systems, remotely controlled robotics and tactile applications, promising to revolutionize health-care, transportation, industry, agriculture, society and culture. To deploy such applications and to comply with their requirements, there is a need for new Internet architectures and protocols allowing a Tactile Internet that combines ultra low latency with extremely high availability, reliability and security. T . Such novel architectures and protocols are embodied in several initiatives like FlexNGIA (https://www.FlexNGIA.net) or projects like Teraflow (https://www.teraflow-h2020.eu) This workshop has the purpose of investigating how to rethink the current Internet and to devise new architectures and protocols by efficiently harnessing recent technological advances in virtualization, network softwarization, NFV/SDN, and Data plane programmability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International workshop on Graph-based network Security (GraSec 2022) Website: https://grasec.uni.lu/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4022 Graph-based modeling offers the advantage of understanding complex attacks and determining the root cause of an attack. However, existing graph mining tools for anomaly detection over streaming events are not adapted for cyber-security problems while the corresponding data continuously appears in the form of complex graphs. The main goal of GraSec is to present research and experience results in graph applications on network and cybersecurity as well as the defensive and offensive tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Intelligence Provisioning for Network and Service Management in Softwarized Networks (IPSN 2022) Web site: https://ipsn2022.spilab.es/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4023 The main goal of IPSN Workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of AI/ML for network management on softwarized networks, addressing topics such as artificial intelligence techniques and models for network and service management in softwarized networks; smart service orchestration, training process at the constrained edge, dynamic Service Function Chaining, Intent and policy based management, centralized vs distributed control of SDN/NFV based networks, analytics and big data approaches, knowledge creation and decision making. This workshop offers a timely venue for researchers and industry partners to present and discuss their latest results in the application of network intelligence to the management of softwarized networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022) Web site: https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4024 The aim of the ITAVT workshop is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and vehicle technology. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITAVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of smart cities and other application domains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Manage-IoT 2022) Web site: https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4025 The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things, including resource, data, service, and security management. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0 (MFI4.0 2022) Web site: http://management-for-industry40.icb.at/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4026 The Industry 4.0 revolution presents a multitude of management related challenges including the transition from ISA-95 to RAMI4.0/IIRA based automation for production automation, the integration of legacy OT with emerging IT technologies, the automation/digitalisation across value networks involving a multitude of stakeholders in complex relationships, and the formation of large to very large System of Systems (SoS). This workshop will focus on a number of core engineering and management issues for Industry 4.0, associated theory, architectures, frameworks, security and experimental experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd workshop on Tools and Concepts for Communication and Networked Systems (TCoNS 2022) Web site: http://comsys.ovgu.de/TCoNS.html Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4027 The Internet of Things (IoT) and related future networking concepts promise the ubiquitous availability of data. In the near future, service-oriented interaction will become part of IoT design principles, forming a new type of emergent behavior. New methods, models, and algorithms are necessary in order to ensure functionality, resiliency, and security. The workshop addresses current research related to the implementation and realization of future IoT applications and systems. Particular focus is put on concepts, tools, and the toolchains that are required for this endeavor. Furthermore, flexible right management, capability and performance profiles, and request evaluation for dynamically composed IoT settings will be targeted. We want to discuss how to realize abstract representations of these aspects in order to automatically react to adapted requests, changed network configurations, or system states. ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 23 January 2022 Acceptance Notification: 27 February 2022 Camera-ready Version Due: 13 March 2022 -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022)- Co-located with NOMS2022
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

The 5th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies- ITAVT 2022* (https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/) in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP *Network Operations and Management Symposium- NOMS2022* 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary (https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Designing a smart autonomous transportation system is one of the key factors of building safe and sustainable smart cities. In the age of softwarization and artificial intelligence, introducing intelligent transportation solutions to our cities offers various range of benefits including reliable and efficient traffic management in safer streets. Such transportation systems combined with cutting-edge vehicular and wireless network technologies face several unprecedented challenges. These include adapting vehicular cloud and network services to the dynamic user requirements, managing available cloud computing resources, big data analytics, connected vehicle network security issues, service composition, and power management. The aim of the Fifth International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT) *is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the intelligent transportation and vehicle technology advances. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in intelligent transportation systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, software, tools, and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of networking, service management, Artificial intelligence, and cloud systems. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems, and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Management and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Vehicular cloud management * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Communications and networking for Automated and semi-automated vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Congestion and awareness control in Autonomous Vehicles * In-Vehicle Networks and Communications * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Networking with Other Road Users *General Co-Chairs:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *Important Dates:* -Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2022 -Paper acceptance notification: February 27, 2022 -Camera-ready version due: March 13, 2022

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The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022)- Co-located with NOMS2022
by Ons Bouachir 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

The 5th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies- ITAVT 2022* (https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/) in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP *Network Operations and Management Symposium- NOMS2022* 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary (https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/) *Scope and topics of the workshop:* Designing a smart autonomous transportation system is one of the key factors of building safe and sustainable smart cities. In the age of softwarization and artificial intelligence, introducing intelligent transportation solutions to our cities offers various range of benefits including reliable and efficient traffic management in safer streets. Such transportation systems combined with cutting-edge vehicular and wireless network technologies face several unprecedented challenges. These include adapting vehicular cloud and network services to the dynamic user requirements, managing available cloud computing resources, big data analytics, connected vehicle network security issues, service composition, and power management. The aim of the Fifth International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT) *is to bring together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the intelligent transportation and vehicle technology advances. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in intelligent transportation systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, software, tools, and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of networking, service management, Artificial intelligence, and cloud systems. Papers describing original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems, and tools are encouraged. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Management and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles * 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles * Vehicular cloud management * SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving * Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems * Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles * Connected Services and Mobility management * Green Vehicular Communication and Services * Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles * Advanced driver assistance systems * Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation * Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks * Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles * Communications and networking for Automated and semi-automated vehicles * Cyber threat-free driving environment * Congestion and awareness control in Autonomous Vehicles * In-Vehicle Networks and Communications * Next Generation Traffic Management Systems * Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles * Networking with Other Road Users *General Co-Chairs:* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey *Important Dates:* -Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2022 -Paper acceptance notification: February 27, 2022 -Camera-ready version due: March 13, 2022

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