[aims-announce] AIMS 2013: Call for Participation

[Martin Waldburger]

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              The 7th IFIP International Conference on
    Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2013)

              June 25-28, 2013, UPC Barcelona, Spain

               http://www.aims-conference.org/2013/

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The International Conference  on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management
and Security  (AIMS 2013) is a single-track  event integrating regular
conference  paper  sessions,  hands-on  tutorials, a  keynote,  and  a
Ph.D. student workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the key
goals of AIMS is to look  beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange
of ideas across different  communities and among Ph.D. students.  AIMS
2013 is the  seventh edition of a conference  series on management and
security aspects  of distributed  and autonomous systems.   It follows
the  already   established  tradition   of  an  unusually   vivid  and
inter-active  conference  series.  This  year,  AIMS  2013 focuses  on
emerging management mechanisms for the Future Internet.  This theme is
addressed  in the technical  program with  papers related  to emerging
monitoring,  security,  and   autonomous  mechanisms  complemented  by
research focusing  on next generation networks and  services, such as,
amongst  others, content  delivery, information-centric  networks, and
Internet of Things.

* Hands-on Tutorials

AIMS 2013 features a four-day  program. The event starts with 1.5 days
of 3 tutorials, which  offer labs-based learning experience in network
and service management topics and  which require the attendees to work
in practical  on-site labs,  along with short  tutorial-style teaching
sessions.  The first tutorial,  by Vaibhav Bajpai and Nikolay Melnikov
(Jacobs  University  Bremen,   Germany),  introduces  the  context  of
large-scale  measurement  platforms,  how  to  write  and  schedule  a
measurement  test,  how  to  schedule  the  reporting  of  measurement
results, and  how to retrieve  results for data analysis.   The second
tutorial,  by  Steven  Latré  and  Jeroen  Famaey  (Ghent  University,
Belgium), gives  an overview  of the functionality,  the architecture,
and  a guided  tour  on  “The Virtual  Wall”,  a generic  experimental
environment  for  advanced   network,  distributed  software,  service
evaluation, and scalability research.  Finally, the third tutorial, by
David  Hausheer (Technische  Universität Darmstad,  Germany), revisits
basic  concepts of  virtual distributed  test-labs, like  PlanetLab or
EMANICSLab, and provides  a practical training on how  to use them for
research activities.

* Keynote, Conference, and Ph.D. Workshop

The  conference part  of  AIMS 2013  includes  a keynote  presentation
delivered  by  Bertrand Mathieu,  senior  researcher  at Orange  Labs,
France,  on management  and monitoring  challenges  in content-centric
networking.  The  4 technical sessions -  covering traffic engineering
and   Quality-of-Service,   security,   autonomous   management,   and
monitoring  mechanisms -  of  AIMS 2013  include  a total  of 11  full
papers.   The conference  program  is complemented  by two  additional
technical sessions from the AIMS Ph.D.  workshop covering a total of 7
Ph.D.   papers on the  topics of  monitoring and  modeling as  well as
content  distribution  and  multimedia.   Further information  on  the
program                 is                 available                at
http://http://www.aims-conference.org/2013/program.html.

* Venue

AIMS 2013  will take place in  Barcelona, Spain and will  be hosted by
the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). The event will be held
at Campus Nord of UPC, located in the North-Western part of Barcelona,
easily reachable from  the city center and from  the airport by public
transport or by  taxi. Further information on the venue  as well as on
accommodation     at     special     rates     is     available     at
http://www.aims-conference.org/2013/venue.html.

* Registration

To     register     please    use     the     form    available     at
http://www.maps.upc.edu/aimsregistration/#here.

Registration fees (until May 25, 2013)

- AIMS 2013 Conference Only Registration: 250 EUR
- Hands-on Tutorials Only Registration: 200 EUR
- PACKAGE: Full Conference and Hands-on Tutorials Registration: 400 EUR

Registration fees (after May 25, 2013)

- AIMS 2013 Conference Only Registration: 320 EUR
- Hands-on Tutorials Only Registration: 250 EUR
- PACKAGE: Full Conference and Hands-on Tutorials Registration: 500 EUR

Full package registration fees include a copy of the tutorials support
material,  a copy  of the  conference proceedings,  attendance  to all
hands-on tutorials  and technical sessions, lunches  and coffee breaks
for  the  four days  of  the event,  the  welcome  reception, and  the
Thursday social event and dinner.

Conference  only registration fees  include a  copy of  the conference
proceedings, attendance to all  technical sessions, lunches and coffee
breaks (June 26, 27, and  28), the welcome reception, and the Thursday
social event and dinner.

Labs only  registration fees include  a copy of the  tutorials support
material,  attendance to  all hands-on  tutorials, lunches  and coffee
breaks (June 25 and 26), and the welcome reception.

* Organization

General Chair

- Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Program TPC Co-chairs AIMS 2013

- Guillaume Doyen, Troyes University of Technology, France
- Martin Waldburger, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Ph.D. Student Workshop Co-chairs

- Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Tutorial Co-chairs

- Juan-Luis Gorricho, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Thomas Schaaf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Publications Chair

- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Steering Committee
- Olivier Festor, Inria Grand Est Nancy, France
- David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Technical Program Committee AIMS 2013
- Rémi Badonnel, LORIA-INRIA Nancy, France
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, U.K.
- Isabelle Chrisment, LORIA-University of Nancy, France
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, U.S.A.
- Alva L. Couch, Tufts University, U.S.A.
- Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University, iMinds, Belgium
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
- Jérôme François, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Alex Galis, University College, London, U.K.
- Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London, U.K.
- Lisandro Z. Granville, University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 
Brazil
- David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, U.S.A.
- Jan Korenek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
- Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Bruno Quoitin, University of Mons, Belgium
- Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Michelle Sibilla, Paul Sabatier University, France
- Radu State, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 
Hungary
- Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
- Tim Wauters, Ghent University, iMinds, Belgium

Ph.D. Student Workshop Committee
- Desislava Dimitrova, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Martin Drasar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Alessandro Finamore, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Josef Kaderka, University of Defence, Czech Republic
- Abdelkader Lahmadi, LORIA-Nancy University-INPL, France
- Philip Leroux, Ghent University, iMinds, Belgium
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
- Eleni Patouni, University of Athens, Greece
- Helmut Reiser, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- Martin Zadnik, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic