[aims-announce] IFIP/IEEE IM 2015 - Last Days for Early-Bird Rates

[Giovane C. M. Moura]

Subject: IFIP/IEEE IM 2015 - Last Days for Early-Bird Rates
(Registration & Hotels) - Deadline: April 15th, 2015

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IFIP/IEEE IM 2015

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: April 15th, 2015 (REGISTRATION & HOTELS)

The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management

"Integrated Management in the Age of Big Data"

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 11-15 May 2015

http://www.ieee-im.org

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REGISTER NOW AT: http://im2015.ieee-im.org/registration

HOTELS: http://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/hotels

REGISTRATION AND HOTEL DISCOUNTS EXPIRATION: April 15th, 2015

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The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to the 14th
IFIP/IEEE International
Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015) to be held in
Ottawa, Canada,
May 11-15, 2015 and hosted by the Ottawa  Convention Centre.  Held in
odd-numbered
years since 1989, IM  2015 follows the 27 years tradition of NOMS and IM
as the  primary
IEEE Communications Society forum for technical exchange on management
of information
and communication technology focusing on research, development,
integration, standards,
service provisioning, and user communities.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

IM 2015 is focused on the theme "Integrated Management in the Age of Big
Data" presenting
recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with Big
Data as well as using
it for management solutions. It offers several types of sessions
including technical, experience,
poster, dissertation, panel and demo sessions, and it covers a variety
of challenging topics such
as cloud computing, software-defined networking, internet of things,
data center management
and security.

More details about the program on http://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/program

KEYNOTES

- Big Data in Science: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
   Joseph L. Hellerstein, University of Washington, USA

- Practical Meets Transformational Aspirations
   Ibrahim Gedeon, TELUS, Canada

- Data Science: The Analytics of Big Data
   Jose M. F. Moura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

- Harnessing a Petabyte: Opportunities and Challenges for Next
Generation Ultra-Scale Data Platforms
   Richard J. Friedrich, HP Labs, USA

- Micro Cloud: Moving Computing to Data to Deal with Data Management and
Security Issues for Enterprise Clouds
   Dinesh C. Verma , IBM Research, USA

- From Software-Defined Infrastructures to Smart City Platforms
   Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto, Canada

PANELS

- Rise of Machines: Bots in Network Operation Centers?

- Integrated Management of Software-Defined Infrastructures

- DevOps: a New Way of Managing Systems and Networks?

- On the Management of 5G Networks: New Challenges or Same Old Story?

WORKSHOPS

- ManFI on Management of the Future Internet (http://www.manfi.org)

- QCMan on Quality of Experience Centric Management (http://qcman.org)

- CogMan on Cognitive Network and Service Management (http://www.cogman.org)

- DISSECT on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies
(http://dissect2015.vcu.edu)

- BDIM on Business-Driven IT Management (http://www.bdim.net)

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HONORARY CO-CHAIRS

- Ibrahim Gedeon, TELUS, Canada
- Kent MacDonald, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Wahab Almuhtadi, Algonquin College, Canada

TPC CO-CHAIRS

- Shingo Ata, Osaka City University, Japan
- Remi Badonnel, TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France
- Jin Xiao, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland
- Alex Clemm, Cisco, USA
- Olivier Festor, Telecom Nancy, France
- Nobuo Fujii, NTT, Japan
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA

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VISITOR INFORMATION

Ottawa is the perfect place for the 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on
Integrated Network
Management (IM 2015): it is a major national hi-tech center, in fact it
is the biggest
industry in the city, and it uniquely combines an excellent balance of
suburbia, rivers,
parks and tourist attractions.

Details to organize your venue on http://im2015.ieee-im.org/hotel-travel

REGISTRATION AND HOTEL DISCOUNTS EXPIRATION: April 15th, 2015

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