[aims-announce] CfP: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)

[Giovane C. M. Moura]

CALL FOR PAPERS

CNSM 2014 -- International Conference on Network and Service Management
November 17-21, 2014
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2014/

Technically Co-sponsored by IFIP, IEEE, and ACM (pending)

The International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM),
co-sponsored by IFIP, IEEE, and ACM (pending), is the premier annual
conference in the general area of network and services management. CNSM has
become a premier venue for the presentation of novel results and experience
reports in all aspects of management of networks, pervasive systems,
enterprises, and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2014 will take place in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference is organized around a single track
of paper presentations where fundamental research results are discussed.
This core track is accompanied by a series of workshops, tutorials and
poster sessions where focused discussions and progress reports are
presented. CNSM invites academic, government, and industry researchers to
submit papers to be presented at the conference.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

General Management Issues
- Monitoring, correlation, and diagnosis
- Performance management, fault management, and reconfiguration
- Resource allocation and optimization
- IT services, business impact analysis, and business process management
- Configuration and accounting
- Security, trust, and privacy
- Energy management and optimization
- QoS management

Management Techniques and New Paradigms
- Self-Management
- Economic models for management
- Policy-based and declarative models of management
- Virtualization
- Control theory and optimization
- Content centric networking
- Stochastic models and machine learning in management

Management and Adaptation in
- Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Cities
- Sensor networks, opportunistic and mobile ad-hoc networks
- Pervasive systems including body area networks, vehicular, and home
networks
- Cloud computing
- Enterprise systems and federations
- SOA and Web services
- Multimedia and data services
- Data centers
- Social networks, cloud-based applications

Network Management
- IP operations and management
- Broadband access networks
- Overlay and virtual networks
- Wireless and mobile networks
- Hybrid and next-generation networks
- Data Center Networks


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English),
in PDF format, using the EDAS system. Only original papers not published or
under review elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can be of two types: full
(up to 9 pages including references) or short (up to 4 pages including
references) papers. Submissions should be in IEEE 2-column style. Papers
exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers
will be rejected without further review. We welcome your contributions and
look forward to your participation at CNSM 2014.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: April 15, 2014
Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2014
Camera Ready Papers: October 1, 2014
Conference Dates: November 17-21, 2014


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Technical Program Co-Chairs
- Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
- Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Workshops Co-Chairs
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- José Marcos Silva Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Publication Co-Chairs
- Brendan Jennings, EMC² and Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, State University of Campinas, Brazil

Steering Committee
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland
- Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
- James Hong, POSTECH, Korea
- Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA


-- 
Giovane C. M. Moura, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Economics of Cybersecurity Group
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management
Delft University of Technology
http://homepage.tudelft.nl/6a4w6/