[aims-announce] Call for Papers: SETM 2013 (in conjunction with CNSM 2013)

[David Hausheer]

Dear AIMS listeners,

I would like to draw your attention to a related workshop organized in 
conjunction with CNSM 2013.

Best regards
David



                            Call for Papers

                  Joint SmartenIT/eCOUSIN Workshop on
                Social-aware Economic Traffic Management
             for Overlay and Cloud Applications (SETM 2013)
             http://www.ps.tu-darmstadt.de/events/setm2013/

                     In conjunction with CNSM 2013
                     http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2013/

                            October 14, 2013
                          Zurich, Switzerland

Overview

Social-awareness has recently attracted a high level of attention in
network management. The Joint SmartenIT/eCOUSIN Workshop on
Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud
Applications "SETM" is the continuation and evolvement of three
successful Economic Traffic Management workshops, where the last
workshop was co-located with ITC22. The workshop title has been
changed to better reflect the scope of the workshop that basing on
economic perspectives in network management extends its scope towards
social awareness, cloud computing, content awareness, and CDNs. That
way the workshop is following current trends in that area.

The main objective of the Joint SmartenIT/eCOUSIN Workshop on
Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud
Applications "SETM" (supported by the FP7 STREPs SmartenIT and
eCOUSIN) is to give scientists, researchers, and operators the
opportunity to present innovative research on SETM, to discuss new
related ideas and directions, as well as to strengthen cooperation in
this field of economics-technology interplay. The SETM 2013 workshop
is financially sponsored by Orange.

Scope

In the current Internet, important new overlay and cloud applications
significantly influence volume and patterns of Internet traffic. While
overlay applications such as Content Delivery and P2P store and
circulate information among each other with no awareness of the
topology and state of the underlying transport network infrastructure,
cloud applications delegate storage and computation to the network,
which is valuable for devices with limited resources and access.

At the same time, Online social networks (OSN) like Facebook gain more
and more popularity and attract millions of users. The widespread
adoption of OSNs has drastically changed the way content is consumed
in the Internet, as content consumption is nowadays highly impacted by
the information shared by users through OSNs and the popularity of a
given content is most often dictated by its "social" success.

In turn, the adoption of socially-aware traffic management mechanisms
as a new management approach allows for a tighter integration of
network management and overlay service functionality which can lead to
cross-layer optimization of operations and management, thus, being a
promising approach to offer a large business potential in operational
perspectives for all players involved. This approach shows benefits
for overlay and cloud applications and services which are currently
dominating Internet traffic, but still have a large potential for
optimization, e.g. in terms of QoE, energy efficiency, inter-cloud
traffic.

Topics of Interest

The workshop seeks original papers in the following areas that serve
as basis for Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and
Cloud Applications (SETM):

   Economic Traffic Management, Protocols, Architectures

     * Traffic management and its related economics, supporting models,
       mechanisms, technologies and their evaluation
     * ETM application scenarios, e.g. cloud applications, Peer-to-Peer
       applications, overlay networks, virtual networks
     * Incentive Schemes and Mechanisms for Network Services
     * Application-layer traffic optimization (ALTO)
     * Accounting and Charging Mechanisms
     * Protocols as Economic Support Functionality
     * Economically-driven Network Architectures
     * Economic QoS and QoE Management
     * Prediction Methods for QoS, QoE, and user behavior
     * Economic Security Management
     * Energy-efficient Network Management

   Economics of

     * Cloud applications and services
     * Data center solutions
     * Virtual, P2P, Overlay Networks
     * Pricing Models for Commercial Services
     * Efficient Bandwidth Allocation
     * Service Level Agreement Management
     * Future network and services business models
     * Future Internet Socio-economic Aspects

   Social-aware network and service management

     * Exploitation of social networks for improved services
     * Solution approaches for improved performance e.g. through
       caching closer to the edge
     * Improving security for communication services, e.g. through
       communications via friends
     * Social-aware network architecture with built-in content
       dissemination functionality
     * New apps/services/technologies based on social networks,
       e.g. content-centric networking
     * Measurements and model for social-awareness, e.g. based on
       crawling of online social networks (OSNs) (e.g. Facebook,
       Twitter, and Google+), content distribution networks (e.g.,
       Bittorrent), and large content portals (e.g., YouTube)
     * Social-aware prediction of content popularity and consumption
       patterns
     * Social-enhanced management of content placement and storage
     * Social-enhanced management of content look-up and delivery
     * Social-aware content delivery networks (CDNs)
     * Social-enhanced mobile infrastructures

   Network and service management for cloud applications and services

     * Intra-cloud management for local and distributed clouds
     * Inter-cloud services with several cloud stakeholders involved
     * Network and service monitoring in federated clouds, virtualized
       infrastructures, e.g. in terms of QoS, QoE, energy consumption,
       inter-cloud resources
     * Automated configuration and repair for reliable services
     * Interoperability and connectivity of cloud data centers
     * Architectures and infrastructure for (distributed) data centers

Paper Submissions

Papers must be written in English and will be subject to a full review
process. Papers are solicited as full papers of no more than 8 pages
or short papers (position statements or work-in-progress papers) of no
more than 4 pages in IEEE two-column format. Papers exceeding these
limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
rejected without further review.

Submissions must be in PDF and will be handled using the EDAS system:
http://edas.info/N14419 Please refer to
http://www.ps.tu-darmstadt.de/events/setm2013/ or contact
setm2013-chairs at edas.info for additional information. Those papers
accepted will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Important Dates

     * Paper deadline: June 14, 2013
     * Notification:   July 26, 2013
     * Camera ready:   August 30, 2013
     * Workshop date:  October 14, 2013

General chair

     * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Program chairs

     * David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
     * Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany

Publications chair

     * Rafal Stankiewicz, AGH Krakow, Poland

Program committee

     * Ángel Cuevas Rumín, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
     * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
     * Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV, Belgium
     * David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
     * George D. Stamoulis, AUEB, Greece
     * Gerhard Hasslinger, Telekom Deutschland, Germany
     * Gino Carrozzo, Interroute, Italy
     * György Dan, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
     * Ioanna Papafili, AUEB Greece
     * Ingo Scholtes, ETZ Zurich, Switzerland
     * Ivica Rimac, Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Germany
     * Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain
     * Krzysztof Wajda, AGH Krakow, Poland
     * Rafal Stankiewicz, AGH Krakow, Poland
     * Roman Lapacz, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
       (PSNC), Poland
     * Rubén Cuevas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
     * Sabine Randriamasy, Alcatel - Lucent Bell Labs France
     * Sergios Soursos, Intracom, Greece
     * Spiros Spirou, Intracom, Greece
     * Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
     * Tobias Hoßfeld, University of Würzburg, Germany
     * Wolfgang Kellerer, TU Munich, Germany
     * Yannick Le Louedec, Orange Labs, France
     * (to be extended)

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SETM 2013: Joint SmartenIT/eCOUSIN Workshop on Social-aware Economic
Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications (SETM 2013)
October 14, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.ps.tu-darmstadt.de/events/setm2013/
E-mail: setm2013-chairs at edas.info