[aims-announce] Call for papers: AIMS 2009

[David Hausheer]

[Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CFP.]

                    3rd International Conference on
           Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security
                               AIMS 2009
                 http://www.aims-conference.org/2009/
                         June 30 - July 2, 2009
                  University of Twente, The Netherlands


   The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal
   conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD student
   workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS
   is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas
   across different communities and among PhD students.

   AIMS 2009 focusses on the scalability of networks and services. The
   various aspects of scalability are of interest, in particular the
   design, monitoring, management, and protection of scalable networked
   systems in an efficient and autonomic way.

* Technical Sponsors / Supporters

   - IFIP TC6 WG 6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems)
   - IEEE co-sponsorship (via ComSoc/CNOM)
     [IEEE approval pending]
   - ACM in-cooperation support (via SIGAPP, SIGMIS, SIGSAC)
     [ACM approval pending]
   - EC IST-EMANICS Network of Excellence (#26854)
   - University of Twente

* Conference Topics

   Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers that are not
   under review in any other conference or journal in the following,
   or related topic areas:

     - Autonomic network and service management
     - Decentralized and distributed management techniques
     - Management of grid resources and virtual networks
     - Virtualization of resources and services
     - Distributed network analysis and accounting
     - Incentives in P2P and Grid networks
     - Overlay- and P2P-based management systems
     - Adaptability and self-organization
     - Intrusion detection in large networks
     - Protection against distributed attacks and botnets
     - Monitoring and visualization of management data and systems behavior
     - Modelling of management technologies and procedures
     - Modelling and analysis of protocols and services
     - Economic traffic management

* Proceedings

   The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture
   Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include the
   conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers.
   Tutorial materials will be distributed to participants at the
   conference.

* Conference Paper Submission

   Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in
   English) in PDF format. Only original, full papers that have not
   been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be
   submitted to the AIMS 2009 paper track. Each submission will be
   limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12
   pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
   rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the
   JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2009 Web page.

   Submissions to the conference are expected to report substantial
   research results relevant for the subjects listed above.

* PhD Student Workshop Submission

   The PhD workshop is open to both PhD and prospective PhD students
   (i.e. graduate students in their last year who intend to pursue a PhD).
   The workshop provides the opportunity to present, discuss, and obtain
   feedback from the AIMS 2009 audience about the planned PhD research work.
   Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written in English
   and in PDF format) describing the current state of their research. The
   paper should include a clear description of the research problem and
   the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach
   novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific,
   low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers should have no
   more than two authors - the student and the advisor. Accepted
   submissions will be published in the AIMS proceedings.

* Best Paper Award

   The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award
   (all regular papers are eligible). The winner will be presented at
   the conference.

* Location

   The University of Twente (UT), located in the east of the Netherlands,
   is an entrepreneurial research university. It was founded in 1961 and
   offers education and research in areas ranging from public policy
   studies and applied physics to biomedical technology.
       http://www.utwente.nl/en/

* Deadlines

   08 Feb 2009  Conference paper submission deadline
   08 Feb 2009  PhD student workshop paper submission deadline
   05 Apr 2009  Notification about paper acceptance
   05 Apr 2009  Notification of PhD student workshop paper acceptance
   19 Apr 2009  Camera ready paper copies due
   30 Jun 2009  AIMS 2009 conference

* Organization

   General Chair:

   - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands

   Technical Program Chairs:

   - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands
   - Ramin Sadre, University of Twente, Netherlands

   PhD Student Workshop Chairs:

   - George Pavlou, University College London, UK
   - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

   Tutorials and Keynotes Chairs:

   - Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK
   - Iris Hochstatter, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany

* Steering Committee

   - Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK
   - Mark Burgess, HIO, Norway
   - Olivier Festor, INRIA, France
   - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
   - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands
   - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
   - Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden