[aims-announce] AIMS 2009 - Call for tutorials

[Iris Hochstatter]

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


                         Call for Tutorials

                    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 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.

   A key feature of the conference is to provide researchers with
   knowledge and skills in the latest techniques, technologies and
   concepts in the field and therefore AIMS includes a number of
   tutorial sessions to be delivered by international experts.

* Tutorial Topics

   We invite tutorial proposals covering a number of areas including,
   but not limited to, the following:

	• 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

* Proposal Submission

   A tutorial proposal should include the following information:
     - Tutorial title
     - Duration of the tutorial (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 hours)
     - Full name(s), affiliation(s), and contact coordinates of the  
instructor(s)
     - Tutorial abstract (500-1000 words) detailing
          (a) the technical subject,
          (b) its importance, and
          (c) its relevance and benefits to AIMS attendees
     - Table of content in a medium level of granularity including
       sections and subsections as well as literature
     - Intended audience profile, prerequisites required to understand
       the tutorial
       If the tutorial has been given before please indicate
       conferences and years
     - Instructor's biography (100-200 words)

Tutorial proposals should be sent by email as PDF to the tutorial
coordinators Iris Hochstatter (iris.hochstatter at unibw.de) and Emil  
Lupu (e.c.lupu at imperial.ac.uk).

* Deadlines
   Proposal submission:            6 Mar 2009
   Acceptance notifications:      9 Apr 2009
   Tutorial materials required:  8 May 2009
   AIMS tutorials:                         June 30 - July 2 2009

* Location

   The University of Twente (UT), located in Enschede, 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.
   The UT is the Netherlands' only campus university. The city of
   Enschede lies in the east of the Netherlands, close to the
   German border.

* Organization

   General Chair:
   - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands

   Technical Program Chairs:
   - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
   - Ramin Sadre, University of Twente, The Netherlands

   PhD Workshop Chairs:
   - George Pavlou, University College London, UK
   - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

   Tutorials and Keynotes:
   - 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