[aims-announce] IFIP AIMS'2011 Nancy, France - PhD Workshop

[Martin Waldburger]

We  apologize  for  multiples copies.  Please circulate this CFP among
your colleagues and students.

PhD students and prospective PhD students are encouraged to submit
short papers (4 pages) presenting the current state of their research to
the AIMS PhD workshop.

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              The 5th International Conference on
       Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security
                            AIMS'2011

                  Nancy, France, 13-17 June, 2011

                    http://aims2011.loria.fr
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The  fifth  International  Conference  on  Autonomous  Infrastructure,
Management,  and Security (AIMS 2011) brings together researchers, PhD
students,  prospective  PhD students, and their dissertation advisors,
with  the  common  goal  of  charting  the  future  of  management  of
next-generation  networks and services.  In providing highly reliable,
robust,  and  secure  network  services,  it  is becoming increasingly
difficult  to separate "network management" from "service management".
Managing  next-generation  networks  and services will require new and
creative  paradigms  for  network  and  service management, as well as
refinement  of  existing management techniques including autonomic and
fully  distributed  algorithms,  virtualization,  and  self-organizing
network overlays.

Thus  AIMS  2011  will  look  beyond traditional borders and stimulate
exchange  of ideas across traditionally separate communities and among
PhD  students.   AIMS  2011  is  a single-track conference integrating
normal  conference  paper  sessions,  tutorials,  keynotes,  and a PhD
student  workshop  into one highly interactive event.  AIMS conference
papers,  tutorials,  and  keynotes discuss the state of the art, while
the  PhD  student  workshop  gives  new and potential PhD students the
opportunity to explore PhD topics and receive timely feedback on plans
for future research.

Authors  are  invited  to submit unpublished papers that are not under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
- Service provisioning mechanisms
- Socio-economic effects of service provisioning
- Adaptability and self-organization
- Economic traffic management
- Incentives in P2P and Grid networks
- Decentralized and distributed management techniques
- Management of grid resources and virtual networks
- Overlay- and P2P-based management systems
- Intrusion detection in large networks
- Protection against distributed attacks and botnets
- Monitoring and visualization of management data and systems behavior
- Accounting of systems, services, and behaviors
- Distributed network analysis and accounting
- Modeling of management technologies and procedures
- Virtualization of resources and services
- Configuration and security in the Internet of Things

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  2011  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 2011 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
Ph.D.).   This  workshop provides the opportunity to present, discuss,
and  obtain  feedback  from  the  AIMS 2011 audience about the planned
Ph.D.   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 is novel, and should outline 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 2011
proceedings.

Important Dates :

- February 5, 2011 - Conference paper registration deadline
- February 5, 2011 - Conference paper submission deadline
- February 5, 2011 - Ph.D. student workshop paper registration deadline
- February 5, 2011 - Ph.D. student workshop paper submission deadline
- March 5, 2011 - Notification about paper acceptance
- March 5, 2011 - Notification of PhD student workshop paper acceptance
- April 4, 2011 - Camera ready paper copies due (hard deadline necessary
                 to allow the publisher to print the proceedings in time)
- June 13-17, 2011 - AIMS 2011 conference and summer school

TPC Co-Chairs

Isabelle Chrisment (ESIAL-Nancy University, France)
Alva Couch (Tufts University, USA)

Special Track Chairs

Tutorials chair : Radu State (ESIAL - Nancy Univesity, France)

 Ph.D. Programme Co-chairs :

Remi Badonnel (ESIAL - Nancy University, France)
Martin Waldburger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Technical Programme Committee

Claudio Bartolini (HP Laboratories, USA)
Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Filip De Turck (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium)
Guillaume Doyen (Universite Technologique de Troyes, France)
Gabi Dreo Rodosek (University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich)
Dominique Dudkowski (NEC Europe Ltd.)
Samir Ghamri-Doudane (Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs France)
Imen Gridabenyahia (Orange Labs, France)
Metin Feridun (IBM Research, Switzerland)
David Hausheer (UC Berkeley and University of Zurich, USA / Switzerland)
Georgios Karagiannis (University of Twente)
Antonio Liotta (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Emil Lupu (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Philippe Owezarski (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Aiko Pras (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Bruno Quoitin (Universite de Mons, Belgium)
Danny Raz (Technion, ISrael)
Ramin Sadre (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Juergen Schoenwaelder (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
Michelle Sibilla (Paul Sabatier university, France)
Robert Szabo (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Joan Serrat (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Kurt Tutschku (University of Vienna, Aistria)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS, Brazil)

PhD Workshop Programme Committee

Marinos Charalambides (University College London, United Kingdom)
Marc Chiarini (Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA)
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (ENSIIE Evry, France)
Thomas Schaaf (LMU Munich, Germany)
Anna Sperotto (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Sven Van Der Meer (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)