[aims-announce] IFIP AIMS 2014: Call for papers

[A.Sperotto at utwente.nl]

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             The 8th International Conference on 
  Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2014)

        June 30 - July 3, 2014, Brno, Czech Republic
            http://www.aims-conference.org/2014/

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The AIMS  international conference is a  single-track event, including
conference paper  sessions, hands-ons  and keynotes, which  focuses on
early research done  by PhD students and young  researchers in network
and  service management and  security.  The  participants find  here a
dedicated  place  for  getting   a  constructive  feedback  by  senior
scientists and they benefit from tutorials on transversal aspects of a
research  activity  (e.g.   publication strategies,  paper  reviewing,
research  presentation  design).   By   taking  part  in  a  dedicated
workshop, the  PhD students are invited  at an early  stage to present
and motivate their  work as well as their  research plans. Finally, by
being involved in practical  hands-on sessions, PhD students and young
researchers  will  get an  up-to-date  knowledge  combined with  basic
skills  on   emerging  technologies.   This   way,  AIMS  acts   as  a
complementary  piece in the  set of  international conferences  in the
network and service management community.

AIMS 2014  focuses on the management of  infrastructures, services and
content, as focal components of the Future Internet.  New paradigms as
well as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization and
monitoring   techniques  or  self-organizing   overlays  have   to  be
investigated to design scalable  and resilient frameworks able to deal
with dynamic and often  domain-specific environments, and also to cope
with big  data to  process and content  to be delivered.   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  papers  on  the  following  topics,
including related fields:

Network and service management
- Wireless networks (adhoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, ...)
- Internet of things
- Smart cities
- Smart grids
- SCADA networks
- Overlay, grid and virtual networks
- Big data
- Software defined networks
- Data centers and clouds  (Iaas, Paas and SaaS)
- Content delivery (P2P, CDN, ICN, ...)
- Social networks
- Future Internet

Management functions
- Intrusion detection
- Protection of infrastructures and services
- Security management
- Configuration management
- Accounting of systems, services and behaviors
- Economic traffic management
- Service provisioning
- Resilience of management infrastructures and services
- Privacy and management data
- Quality of service and experience

Techniques and Methodologies
- Autonomic and self-management
- Distributed monitoring and correlation
- Risk management
- Knowledge plane design and deployment
- P2P-based management
- Modeling of management technologies and procedures
- Flow based management
- Scalability of management infrastructures
- Experimental studies

Conference Paper Submission:

Only original, full  papers that have not been  published or submitted
for publication  elsewhere can be  submitted. Each submission  must be
written  in  English and  will  be  limited  to 12  pages,  references
excluded,  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 2014 Web page.

PhD Student Workshop Submission:

The PhD  student workshop is open  to both junior  PhD and prospective
PhD  students. Authors  are invited  to submit  short papers  (4 pages
excluded references, written in English and in LNCS 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  will be  evaluated  based on  the proposed  idea,
methodology and foreseen impact.  Authors of the papers should only be
the  student  and  his/her  advisors.  Accepted  submissions  will  be
published in the AIMS 2014 proceedings.

Proceedings:

The  conference proceedings  will be  published in  Springer's Lecture
Notes  of  Computer  Science   (LNCS)  series  and  will  include  the
conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers.

Important Dates:

- January 24, 2014: Paper registration deadline
- January 31, 2014: Paper submission deadline
- March 17, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- April 7, 2014: Camera-ready papers due
- June 30 - July 3, 2014: AIMS 2014 conference and summer school

General Chair
- Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Technical Program Co-chairs
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Guillaume Doyen, Troyes University of Technology, France

Ph.D. Student Workshop Co-chairs
- Steven Latre, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, United Kingdom

Labs Co-chairs
- Petr Velan, Masaryk University, Czech Republic 
- Jeroen Famaey, Ghent University, Belgium  

Publications Chair
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Steering Committee
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Olivier Festor, Telecom Nancy, University of Lorraine, France
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Guillaume Doyen, University of Technology Troyes, France
- David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands

Technical Program Committee
- Alessandro Finamore, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
- Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA
- Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Bertrand Mathieu, Orange Labs, France
- Bruno Quoitin, Université de Mons, Belgium
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
- David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Grégory Bonnet, University of Caen Lower Normandy, France
- Isabelle Chrisment, TELECOM Nancy - Université de Lorraine, France
- Jan Korenek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
- Jérôme François, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brasil
- Martin Waldburger, WIK-Consult, Germany
- Martin Zadnik, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
- Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Michelle Sibilla, Paul Sabatier University, France
- Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France
- Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
- Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Remi Badonnel, INRIA - TELECOM Nancy - University of Lorraine, France
- Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Vojtech Krmicek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

PhD Student Workshop Committee
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, UFRGS, Brazil
- Arosha Bandara, The Open University, United Kingdom
- Bradley Simmons, York University, Canada
- Clarissa Marquezan, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
- Desislava Dimitrova, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Dimitrios Pezaros, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Eleni Patouni, University of Athens, Greece
- George Pavlou, University College London, United Kingdom
- Javier Rubio-Loyola, CINVESTAV, Mexico
- Jeroen Famaey, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Joan Serrat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Kostas Tsagkaris, University of Piraeus, Greece
- Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, United Kingdom
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
- Maxwell Young, Drexel University, USA
- Ning Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Steven Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Stylianos Georgoulas, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Sven van der Meer, Ericsson, Ireland