[aims-announce] Deadline extended to February 10th: AIMS 2012 call for papers

[Ramin Sadre]

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Deadline for conference and PhD workshop papers extended to February 10th!
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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 6th International Conference on
Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security
AIMS'2012

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 4-8, 2012

http://www.aims-conference.org/2012

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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. Furthermore, AIMS 2012
integrates 2 days of courses and labs which offers hands-on learning
experiences in network and service management topics and which requires
attendees to work in practical on-site courses combined with preceding
short tutorial-like teaching sessions.

AIMS 2012 focuses on the theme of managing and monitoring of
next-generation networks, network security and services. New paradigms
as well as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization
and monitoring techniques or self-organizing overlays have to be
investigated. The design, monitoring, configuration and protection of
the next generation of networked systems in an efficient, secure, and
autonomic manner are crucial to commercially viable and successful
networks and services.

Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers (written in English) in
PDF format that are not under review in any other conference or journal
in the following or related topic areas:

- Autonomic network and service management
- Adaptability and self-organization
- Decentralized and distributed management techniques
- Monitoring and visualization of management data and systems behavior
- Accounting of systems, services, and behaviors
- Distributed network analysis and accounting
- Management of grid resources and virtual networks
- Network measurements in large high-speed networks (hardware
  acceleration in networking)
- Network security monitoring
- Monitoring of special environments (SCADA networks, smart grids,
  building management systems)
- Protection against distributed attacks and botnets
- Modeling of management technologies and procedures
- Virtualization of resources and services
- Configuration and security in the Internet of Things
- Overlay- and P2P-based management systems
- Socio-economic effects of service provisioning
- Economic traffic management

Conference Paper Submission

Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for
publication elsewhere can be submitted. 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 2012 Web page.

PhD Student Workshop Submission

The PhD workshop is open to both PhD and prospective PhD students.
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 2012 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.

Important Dates

- February 10, 2012 - Conference paper registration and submission
   deadline (EXTENDED)
- February 10, 2012 - PhD student workshop paper registration and
   submission deadline (EXTENDED)
- March 5, 2012 - Notification about paper and PhD student workshop
   paper acceptance
- March 26, 2012 - Camera ready paper copies due
- June 4-8, 2012 - AIMS 2012 conference and summer school

General Chair
- Radu State, University of Luxembourg

Technical Program Co-chairs

- Jiri Novotny, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Ramin Sadre, University of Twente, The Netherlands

PhD Student Workshop Co-chairs

- Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Martin Waldburger, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Technical Program Committee

- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo
- Isabelle Chrisment, LORIA-University of Nancy
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London
- Alva Couch, Tufts University
- Guillaume Doyen, UTT
- Dominique Dudkowski, NEC Europe Ltd.
- Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est
- Jerome Francois, University of Luxembourg
- Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London
- David Hausheer, UC Berkeley and University of Zurich
- James Hong, POSTECH
- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services
- Jan Korenek, Brno University of Technology
- Vojtech Krmicek, Masaryk University
- Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Emil Lupu, Imperial College
- Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario
- Hermann De Meer, University of Passau
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente
- Bruno Quoitin, University of Mons
- Danny Raz, Technion
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich
- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente
- Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich
- Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT
- Martin Zadnik, Brno University of Technology
- Lisandro Zambenedetti, Granville UFRGS