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DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 18th IFIP/IEEE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2007) *** MANAGING VIRTUALIZATION OF NETWORKS AND SERVICES *** October 29-31, 2007 - San Jose, California http://dsom.manweek.org/2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM) is the premier annual workshop in the general area of network and services management. It has built up its strong reputation over a period of almost two decades. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co- sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). In its 18th edition, DSOM 2007 will be held October 29-31, 2007 in Silicon Valley, California, as part of the 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2007). THEME AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The primary theme of DSOM 2007 will be "Managing Virtualization of Networks and Services." Virtualization, in which properties of a service are decoupled from its physical realization over networking and IT infrastructure, is capturing the imagination of the industry and the research community alike. The goal of DSOM 2007 is to shed light on related research issues, investigating questions such as: what is different about virtualization in 2007 compared to the mainframe era, what advances in network control and self-management may advance virtualization, what new problems we will incur when managing virtualized networks and services, and how management itself may benefit from virtualization. Submissions on topics related to managing virtualization of networks and services are hence particularly encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Virtualization of networks and services - Management implications of virtualization - Managing security in a virtual environment - Self-management and virtualization - Troubleshooting virtualized networks and services - Performance and QoS management in virtualized environments - Management patterns and algorithms for scalable management - Controlling the tradeoffs between overhead, accuracy, robustness, and security - Distributed, decentralized, and peer-to-peer management - Management of next generation service networks - Monitoring and measurements - Anomaly detection and data mining for management - Fault management and event correlation - Management and operations of massively redundant data centers - Semantic Web techniques for management - Instrumentation and embedded management - Implementation, deployment, and operations experiences PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- It is planned to publish DSOM 2007 proceedings in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2007. Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers, strictly in LNCS format: - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned page limits will not be reviewed. Papers must be submitted electronically through the JEMS conference management system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/dsom2007 (only PDF files are permitted). IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission: May 13, 2007 (GMT) - Notification: July 6, 2007 - Camera ready: August 2, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Clemm -Cisco, USA- alex(a)cisco.com Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -UFRGS, Brazil- granville(a)inf.ufrgs.br Rolf Stadler -KTH, Sweden- stadler(a)ee.kth.se

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MANWEEK'07: 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services | | "End-to-end Virtualization of Networks and Services" | | | | October 29 - November 2, 2007 San Jose, California, USA | | http://www.manweek.org/2007/ | | | | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ In its third incarnation, Manweek 2007 is host to five of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: * DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management * MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services * IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE Internatl. Workshop on IP Operations and Management * MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments * EVGM 2007 - 3rd IEEE/IFIP Internatl. Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM) Manweek 2007 will take place in San JosÃ*, California, right in middle of Silicon Valley. Collocating those events allows for five days of intensive exchange of ideas between research communities and topics that are distinct but interrelated, allowing participants to forge links and exploit synergies with researchers of adjacent areas of interest. The general theme of Manweek2007 is End-to-end Virtualization of Networks and Services, a topic that captures the imagination of industry and researchers alike. Each of the workshops, organized by their own technical program committees, will support this general theme. Please visit the conference Website, http://www.manweek.org/2007/, for details on the respective Calls for Papers. Important Dates: * Submission: May 13th (DSOM, MMNS, MACE, EVGM); May 19th (IPOM) * Notification: July 6th * Camera ready: August 2nd Contact: chairs(a)manweek.org

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GridNets'07: 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications (CFP)
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) ********************************************************************* * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * GridNets 2007 * * First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications * * Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and INRIA * * In-technical cooperation with ACM SIGARCH and EU-IST * * Lyon, France, October 17-19, 2007 * * http://www.gridnets.org/2007 * * * ********************************************************************* All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting which provides a focused and highly interactive forum where researchers and technologists have the opportunity to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in the Grid networking area. The objective of this event is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA), GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA). All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. From the first event through the fourth, we have been known as the GridNets Workshop affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our fifth event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and in Europe. The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library. Best papers will be considered for publication in a special section of Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Application. Grid developers and practicioners are increasingly realising the importance of an efficient network support. Entire classes of applications would greatly benefit by a network-aware Grid middleware, able to effectively manage the network resource in terms of scheduling, access and use. Conversely, the peculiar requirements of Grid applications provide stimulating drivers for new challenging research towards the development of Grid-aware networks. Cooperation between Grid middleware and network infrastructure driven by a common control plane is a key factor to effectively empower the global Grid platform for the execution of network-intensive applications, requiring massive data transfers, very fast and low-latency connections, and stable and guaranteed transmission rates. Big e-science projects, as well as industrial and engineering applications for data analysis, image processing, multimedia, or visualisation just to name a few are awaiting an efficient Grid network support. They would be boosted by a global Grid platform enabling end-to-end dynamic bandwidth allocation, broadband and low-latency access, interdomain access control, and other network performance monitoring capabilities. Scope ----- * Network architectures and technologies for grids * Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the grid environment. * End to end lightpath provisioning software systems and emergent standards * The network as a first class grid resource: network resource information publication, brokering and co-scheduling with other Grid resources. * Interaction of the network with distributed data management systems. * Network monitoring, traffic characterisation and performance analysis * Inter-layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols, integration among layers * Experience with pre-production optical network infrastructures and exchange points * Peer-to-peer network enhancements applied to the Grid * Network support for wireless and ad hoc Grids * Data replication and multicasting strategies and novel data transport protocols * Fault-tolerance, self healing networks * Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites within a virtual organization VPN. * Simulations * New concepts and requirements which may fundamentally reshape the evolution of Networks. Workshops --------- Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential instructors are requested to submit a workshop proposal in ASCII or PDF format to the Workshops chair, Laurent Lefevre (laurent.lefevre at inria dot fr) by April 3, 2007 Important Dates --------------- Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 3, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: May 11, 2007, Midnight CET Paper Acceptance Notification: June 22, 2007 Final paper submission: July 27, 2007 Conference in Lyon: October 17-19, 2007 (For submission instructions, refer to http://www.gridnets.org) Organizing Committee ==================== General co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Local co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Paulo Goncalves (INRIA,ENS-Lyon) Program Committee co-chairs: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster University), Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) Publicity chair: Serafim Kotrotsos (EXIS IT) for Europe, Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) for Asia, Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco Systems) for USA Publications chair: Piero Spinnato (LNGS - INFN) Workshop chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, (CREATE-NET), Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA,ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Industry track chair: Bela Berde (Alcatel) Panels chair: Volker Sander (University of Applied Sciences Aachen) Exhibits and sponsorship chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Conference coordination and registration: Zita Rozsa (ICST) Finance chair: Karen Decker (ICST) Webmaster: Jean-Christophe Mignot (CNRS, ENS-Lyon)

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