[aims-announce] AIMS 2015: Call for participation

[Marinos Charalambides]

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                          CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                   The 9th International Conference on
     Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2015)

              June 22 - June 25, 2015, Ghent, Belgium

                 http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/

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The International Conference  on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management
and Security  (AIMS 2015) is a single-track  event integrating regular
conference  paper  sessions,  courses   and  labs,  keynotes  on both
educational  and  scientific research  topics,  and  a Ph.D. student
workshop into a highly  interactive event. Especially, AIMS 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     constructive   feedback  by senior
scientists and they benefit from tutorials on educational aspects of a
research activity (e.g. this year "Where to publish?"). 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 2015 is  the ninth 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
interactive  conference  series.   This  year, AIMS  2015 focuses  on
the secure,  reliable and  automated management of networks and their
services in an all-connected Future Internet. This theme is addressed
in  the   technical  program   with   papers   related  to monitoring,
security,  and  management  methodologies in the application areas  of
wired  and    wireless    networks,   Internet   of   Things, Cloud
infrastructures, Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined
Networking.

* Courses and Labs

AIMS  2015 features  three  hands-on lab  sessions  spread across its
four-day program.  They provide  participants with the opportunity to
gain first  hand experience with several  state-of-the-art network and
service  management technologies  and tools.  Each lab  session starts
with a  brief theoretical tutorial-style introduction  and is followed
by a hands-on part, allowing participants to experiment with the tools
through a set of practical exercises. The first lab session introduces
MapReduce  and  Hadoop,  and  how  it  can  be  applied  to different
challenges  today's  community  is facing  in network  management. The
second lab  session  deals  with  setting up  NFV in testbeds and aims
at familiarizing all  participants with the concept of  NFV in general
and  possible  benefits  of  combining it  with  SDN.  This will  be
accomplished by  deploying several  network  functions  on the Virtual
Wall and interconnecting  them  using OpenFlow. Finally, the third lab
session  addresses the (big)  data analysis  challenges  that arise in
network  management. It will introduce the  open source ELK  stack and
its  components,  including Elasticsearch  for  deep search  and data
analytics,  Logstash  for  centralized  logging,  log enrichment, and
parsing, and Kibana for powerful and beautiful data visualizations.

* Keynote, Conference, and Ph.D. Workshop

AIMS 2015 will feature a keynote by Burkhard Stiller who is a professor
at  the   University   of  Zurich,  Switzerland.   He will  talk about
"Management  of Big Data - The Areas of Conflict: Data Volume, Analysis
Methods, and Protection".   This keynote  will introduce  and partially
define the term "Big Data",  it will discuss the embedding  of Big Data
into  today's society,  and  will work out key details of the  Big Data
management  dimension,  driven  by  selected  examples,  which face  a
diversity of  opportunities and risks.  Moreover, a second keynote will
be  given  by  Piet  Demeester,  head of  the  Department  of Internet
Technologies at iMinds, Belgium. Based  on his 30 year of experience in
research, this talk will  provide  a viewpoint on current and important
challenges in  network-related research.   Additionally, advice will be
provided for  young researchers, who want  to pursue either an academic
career or a career in industry. Moreover, the  two  technical sessions
will present  the  latest results   in  security management, and Future
Internet  management. The   conference  program   is complemented  by
two   additional  technical sessions   from  the  AIMS   Ph.D. workshop
covering  a   total  of 9  Ph.D.   papers on   the topics   of network
virtualization, security management, SDN,  content  delivery, Internet
of Things and cloud computing.

* Venue

AIMS  2015  will   be  held   at   Ghent University  in Ghent, Belgium.
Republic. The venue is located in  the city center  of Ghent and easily
reachable   (walking  distance)    from  recommended   hotels. Further
information on the venue as  well as on accommodation at  special rates
is available at http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/accommodation.html

* Registration

To register please use the form available at

http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/registration.html

* Organization

General Co-Chairs
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium

Technical Program Co-Chairs
- Steven Latré, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, United Kingdom

PhD Workshop Chairs
- Jérôme François, INRIA, France
- Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Lab Session Co-Chairs
- Ricardo Schmidt, Twente University, the Netherlands
- Tim Wauters, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium

Publications Chair
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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