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IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007) (part of MANWEEK 2007) October 31 - November 2, 2007, San Jose, California http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/ipom/ipom.php CALL FOR PAPERS The IPOM 2007 is the seventh in a series of dedicated events to Operations and Management in IP-based networks. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2007 focuses on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as Future Internet Design (FIND). We are particularly interested in pressing network management issues related to virtualization, mobility, service provision, security, multimedia, and P2P applications. The overall theme of ManWeek 2007 is management for virtualization. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to IPOM 2007. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to IPOM 2007. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): # Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes) # Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes ) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted electronically through the JEMS conference management system. (only PDF files are permitted). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: # Autonomic Network Management # Managing and Troubleshooting Network Mobility # Traffic Modeling, Measurement, Analysis, Engineering, and Visualization for IP Networks # Managing Virtualization and Managing via Virtualization # Management Issues related to GENI and FIND # Large-Scale Internet-based Attack Defense via Management # Botnet Management or Being Managed by Botnet # Management Issues for Intra-/Inter-Domain Routing # Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, and Self-Management # IPOM Interoperability # Management of Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks # Grid Networking Management # IP services and network Provisioning & Restoration # Charging and Accounting for IP Services # Overlay Networks: Design, Operations & Management # IP Multimedia Subsystems: O & M PROCEEDINGS The IPOM 2007 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. IMPORTANT DEADLINES # Submission: May 19th 2007 # Notification: July 7th 2007 # Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 # Workshop: October 31 - November 2, 2007 The best papers of IPOM will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM.

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EVGM: 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) EVGM 2007 ======= 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management ===================================================== San José, California, USA - held as part of Manweek 2007 =================================== Virtualization allows layer n (upper layer) to function independently and effectively without being intrinsically tied to layer n-1 (lower layer). In OS virtualization, guest operating systems are isolated from physical computational resources. In server virtualization, application servers are isolated from physical server resources. In network virtualization, network services or applications are isolated from physical network resources. One of the major features of Grids is the sharing of heterogeneous resources, which can be facilitated by various levels of virtualization. In other words, Grids should provide holistic or end-to-end virtualization. It is obvious that proper resource management is key to providing effective virtualization. However, resource management for virtualization is a challenge (as opposed to typical resource management) in that there is no trivial way of virtualizing resources and presenting virtualized resources to the upper layers. It is even a bigger challenge when end-to-end (E2E) virtualization is considered, for example, when OS and server virtualization interplay with storage and network virtualization for providing an effective E2E virtualized environment. This workshop will offer a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and potential future research, as well as development issues, in this new field of E2E Virtualization and Grid Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to: # OS resource management for virtualization (OS Virtualization) # Server resource management for virtualization (Server Virtualization) # Application resource management for virtualization (Application Virtualization) # Storage resource management for virtualization (Storage Virtualization) # Network resource management for virtualization (Network Virtualization) # Network Management resource management for virtualization (NM Virtualization) # Heterogeneous Grid VO resource management for virtualization (Grid Virtualization) # Interplay of various virtualization layers # Virtual resource scheduling # Virtual resource discovery # Virtual resource monitoring # Virtualization in clusters and high-performance computing environments # Virtualization for ERP, CRM, Healthcare, Financial applications SUBMISSION EVGM 2007 is using the JEMS Conference Management System to manage paper submission process. In order to submit, you must first create an JEMS account. JEMS system will e-mail you your password. You need to login to JEMS using the password you have received by email. JEMS will provide you with submission homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers, strictly in LNCS format: - Long papers (up to 10 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/evgm2007 (only PDF files are permitted). IMPORTANT DEADLINES # Submission: May 13th 2007 # Notification: July 6th 2007 # Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 WEBSITE: http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/evgm/cfp.php Email: manweek07-oc(a)manweek.org

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MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) San Jose, California, USA October 29-30th 2007 http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/mace/mace.php (Held as part of Manweek 2007 - http://www.manweek.org) CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) will be held from October 29-30th 2007 in San Jose, California, USA. The workshop will be technically sponsored (confirmation pending) by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). As part of Manweek 2007 MACE will be co-located with four other events: the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007); the 7th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007); the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007); and the 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Virtualization Grid Networking and Management (EVGM 2007). The MACE workshop aims to promote the realisation of Autonomic Communications Environments (ACEs) Â* service-centric environments exhibiting self-governing behaviour. Within an ACE, services will be created that are self-aware and self-healing. In their deployment, they will be self-adapting, self-optimising and self-configuring; and in operation they will be self-protecting, self-managing and self-composing. These features will enable ACE services to adapt to changing business needs and environmental conditions without manual intervention. Realisation of this vision represents a significant challenge for the networking and computer science research communities, requiring advances in disparate areas ranging, for example, from software modeling to network security, and from machine learning to performance optimisation. M ACE 2007 will bring together researchers from academia and industry in a workshop setting in which research challenges can be identified, ideas for potential solutions exchanged, and research results discussed. Topics of interest for paper submission include, but are not limited to: - Advances in Modelling and Meta-Modelling; - Governance Models (incl. Policy-based Management); - Methodologies (incl. Lifecycle, Behaviour, Design by Contract); - Mathematical Models of Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Biology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Sociology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Model and Language Driven Development (incl. UML and code generation techniques); - Intelligent Service Negotiation, Composition, and Security; - Tool, Simulation and Testbed support for Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Testing and Validation Processes; - Managing and Handling Context: Sensing, Inferring, and Application; - Autonomic Wireless Access and Seamless Mobility; - Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Inference Techniques; - Algorithms and Processes for Network Robustness and Performance; - Evolving industry standards to facilitate ACEs. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Submission of late-breaking results and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research is encouraged. Papers that are published, or concurrently submitted to another journal, conference, or book should not be submitted. The Proceedings will be published in the Multicon Lecture Notes series. Papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs, and should not exceed 15 pages in length. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via http://jems.sbc.org.br/mace2007. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: May 13th 2007; Notification: July 6th 2007; Camera ready: August 2nd 2007; Workshop: October 29 - 30th 2007. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Joan Serrat, Universitat PolitÃ cnica de Catalunya, Spain John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nazim Agoulmine, UniversitÃ* d'Evry, France Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, Norway Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Greg Cox, Motorola Labs, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France Joel Fleck, Hewlett Packard, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Salim Harari, University of Arizona, USA Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Conor McArdle, Dublin City University, Ireland Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, USA JosÃ* Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Caera, Brazil Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe, Germany Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Radu State, INRIA-LORIA, France Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA

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MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks
by Sumit Naiksatam 04 May '07

04 May '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on | | Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007) | | | | October 31- November 2, 2007 - San Jose, California | | http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/mmns/mmns.php | | | | CALL FOR PAPERS | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its tenth annual meeting on October 29 through November 2, 2007, in San José, California, USA, as part of the 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2007). The single-track MMNS conference will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference 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. SCOPE OF MMNS 2007 MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of multimedia systems over mobile wireless networks, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. Multimedia real-time services are expected to be among the most important applications of next generation mobile wireless networks such as the forthcoming 4G networks. Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services that are likely to become a major source of income both for the network and content providers. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence, and the integration of computing and communications in all devices. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating such services. Inevitably, management is a key element in addressing this challenge. Autonomous services and the service-oriented architecture are emerging concepts that can enable efficient management of resources in these complex systems. The MMNS 2007 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in next generation mobile and wireless networks. MMNS 2007 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in management of mobile networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Mobile multimedia network management Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks Management of 4G systems Management of sensor and actuator networks Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia and mobile services Multi-service over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management Grid networking for multimedia Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management Management of Content distribution networking Distributed multimedia service management Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services Multimedia transmission and resource management for OFDMA protocols Wireless Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies Novel protocols for multimedia services Multi-point, multicast service management Seamless mobility of multimedia services Pricing, Accounting and Billing for multimedia services Security management for mobile and multimedia networks and services Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services Network Virtualization for network management and service provisioning Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in wireless networks Mobile platform architecture optimizations for manageability services Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2007. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2007. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2007 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. An award will be presented to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission: May 13th 2007 Notification: July 6th 2007 Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 Workshop: October 31 - November 2 2007

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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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Utility computing enabled by high bit rate networks: Opportunity and requirements
by Sumit Naiksatam 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Utility computing enabled by high bit rate networks: Opportunity and requirements Workshop collocated with GridNets 2007 organized by CARRIOCAS [1] project ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers Scientific or industrial computing/data intensive applications may benefit on a on-demand basis from powerful end systems such as computing or storage servers provided by external companies/service providers and remotely accessible via metropolitan or wide area networks. Enabling a large scale adoption of such an utility computing model requires the support from shared carrier networks by opposition to dedicated research networks. However, for production level networking, this raises two main issues: - Business related: Are the concerned users ready to use externalized resource and to converge their use on a shared network ? What would be the business relationship between application users, network operator and resource providers ? - Technical related: What are the technical constraints on the networks resulting from this usage ? How do they vary from one application to another ? Which kind of interactions between the applications and the network belonging to different administrative domains can exist to enforce the network service required by the distributed applications? The workshop intends to address these issues from these two interrelated realms, by discussing in particular the following points: - Interest, enablers, and feasibility of the externalization of computing and storage resources through a network, drivers and brakes for such an evolution. - Typology of distributed applications, factors of differentiation (number of sites and users, data volumes, sequence of application sessions, capacity to plan the phases, level of interactivity ...) - Requirements on the quality of service at network level: constraints of bandwidth, latency, connectivity dynamics, security .... The relevant contributions for this workshop are in particular among the following themes: - Description of practical experiences of distributed applications over long distance networks, performance assessment - Analysis of network requirements for specific applications in industrial or scientific domains, in areas such as aeronautics, automotive, energy, pharmaceutical, climatology, biology, physics, finance, etc. - Impact of network QoS (throughput, latency ....) over application quality of experiences: theoretical and/or experimental analysis - Scalability analysis of on-demand/scheduled usage of distributed resources with respect to the network size, to the number of users, of applicative sessions, of resource servers, etc ... - Application-network interaction model: Overlay model versus integrated model - Co-allocation and orchestration of end-system and network resources, network (re)configuration driven by application needs - Security, trustability aspects in utility computing - Market analysis and business models studies related to utility computing over converged networks - Associated service definition and service level agreements encompassing both network and computing/storage resources A one-page description of the proposed contribution should be sent to Olivier.Audouin(a)alcatel-lucent.fr and Dominique.Verchere(a)alcatel-lucent.fr . Deadline for submission is July 19th Notification of acceptance: August 24th More about Gridnets: http://gridnets.org/2007/ More about CARRIOCAS project: http://www.carriocas.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] CARRIOCAS studies and implements an ultra high bit rate (up to 40Gb/s per channel) optical fiber core network to meet the scientific and industrial needs in remote usage of computing and storage resource for high performance interactive/collaborative simulations and virtual prototyping. The CARRIOCAS consortium gathers academic and industrial experts in distributed applications, networking, computing and optics pertaining to 22 institutions.

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GridNets'07: 1st International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications (CFP)
by Sumit Naiksatam 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '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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IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management
by Sumit Naiksatam 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007) (part of MANWEEK 2007) October 31 - November 2, 2007, San Jose, California http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/ipom/ipom.php CALL FOR PAPERS The IPOM 2007 is the seventh in a series of dedicated events to Operations and Management in IP-based networks. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2007 focuses on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as Future Internet Design (FIND). We are particularly interested in pressing network management issues related to virtualization, mobility, service provision, security, multimedia, and P2P applications. The overall theme of ManWeek 2007 is management for virtualization. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to IPOM 2007. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to IPOM 2007. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): # Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes) # Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages, including figures, tables, references and annexes ) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted electronically through the JEMS conference management system. (only PDF files are permitted). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: # Autonomic Network Management # Managing and Troubleshooting Network Mobility # Traffic Modeling, Measurement, Analysis, Engineering, and Visualization for IP Networks # Managing Virtualization and Managing via Virtualization # Management Issues related to GENI and FIND # Large-Scale Internet-based Attack Defense via Management # Botnet Management or Being Managed by Botnet # Management Issues for Intra-/Inter-Domain Routing # Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, and Self-Management # IPOM Interoperability # Management of Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks # Grid Networking Management # IP services and network Provisioning & Restoration # Charging and Accounting for IP Services # Overlay Networks: Design, Operations & Management # IP Multimedia Subsystems: O & M PROCEEDINGS The IPOM 2007 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. IMPORTANT DEADLINES # Submission: May 19th 2007 # Notification: July 7th 2007 # Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 # Workshop: October 31 - November 2, 2007 The best papers of IPOM will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM.

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