********************************************************************* CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS - NOMS 2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 20-24 April 2020 // Budapest, Hungary Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2020.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) will be held on 20-24 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2020 will follow the 32 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 2020 will feature a number of workshops to further disseminate fine-tuned research, that are organized around the main conference theme: Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020 invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops, which will be held prior or immediately after the main NOMS 2020 Technical Program. The main purpose of the NOMS 2020 Workshops is to provide a forum for evaluating new frontiers in research, development, integration, standards, advance service provisioning, and user communities addressing smart and hyper-connected environments, virtualization, programmability in native softwarization of networking technologies. All workshops would need to complement the main conference theme and topics that include management of 5G and Beyopnd Networks, Fixed and Mobile Networks and Services, Clouds, Vertical Eco-Systems, Converged network operations and seamless secure services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each workshop proposal must include: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Names, addresses, and a short (200 words) bio of the major organizers (e.g., TPC (Co-) chair(s), OC General (Co-)chair(s)) 3. A brief description (1 page) of the technical issues addressed by the workshop. State reasons why and how the workshop would attract the NOMS 2020 audience. 4. Organizing Committee (OC) and Technical Program Committee (TPC) 5. Likely contributors and targeted audience. 6. The planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively and interactive discussions. 7. If applicable, a description of the past events of the workshop, including all statistics of submitted/accepted papers and attendee numbers. If the workshop does not have past editions, please provide estimates and explain a strategy on how to reach the targets of paper submissions and attendees. 8. Publicity and advertising plan to attract paper submissions and attendees. 9. A draft of 1-page "Call for Papers (CFP)" including title, description, topics and important dates. 10. The workshop website address, if applicable. Submission of workshop proposals should be made to the Workshop Co-chairs of NOMS 2020 by email to the following addresses: - Marc-Oliver Pahl <pahl@net.in.tum.de> - Mauro Tortonesi <mauro.tortonesi@unife.it> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission: October 17, 2019 (extended!) - Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2019 (extended!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *Tentative* Schedule for Accepted Workshops - Paper submission deadline (coordinated): January 15, 2020 - Paper acceptance notification (coordinated): February 15, 2020 - Camera-ready version due (coordinated): February 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs - Marc-Oliver Pahl, Technischen Universität München, Germany - Mauro Tortonesi, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy -- 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