********************************************************************* 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