[aims-announce] CFP - IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2016 ManFI Workshop - Submission Deadline: December 15, 2015

[Remi Badonnel]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a paper to IFIP/IEEE ManFI 2016 
(http://www.manfi.org):
8th IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Management of the Future Internet (co-located 
with NOMS 2016 Symposium).

Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP.

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CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP/IEEE MANFI 2016

IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet

April 25, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey

Management of SDN/NFV-based Systems

http://www.manfi.org/

Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2015

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The Eighth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future 
Internet (ManFI 2016) will be held in conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE 
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016) in 
Istanbul, Turkey, April 25-29,2016. The workshop is sponsored by the 
IEEE Communications Society and is endorsed by the Technical Committee 
on Network Operations and Management (CNOM) and by the EU FP7 Flamingo 
Network of Excellence research project.

Following the success of the previous editions of this workshop, the 
main goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research 
results and experience reports in the area of Future Internet 
Management, addressing amongst others currently important topics such as 
efficient network and service monitoring for the Future Internet, 
management of virtualized networks and services, management of IaaS, 
PaaS, SaaS offerings, content-aware and information-centric networks, 
management of software defined networks, federated management of the 
Future Internet, and economic based network and service management.

ManFI 2016 will combine original full paper presentations with a 
motivating keynote, quick hot topic presentations and a panel 
discussion. Furthermore, the workshop attendees will be stimulated to 
participate in interesting discussions amongst the attendees, such that 
all participants can take home lots of ideas for consideration in their 
ongoing research projects or start new research projects to address the 
challenging topics. To this end, short papers describing late-breaking 
advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also 
welcome.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to 
one or multiple topic areas listed below:

- Design of architectural building blocks for managing the Future Internet
- Advances in measurement, management, security, accounting, mobility, 
and other functions of the Future Internet
- Virtualization of resources and services
- Management of cloud computing infrastructures
- Efficient Management of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings
- Content-aware and Information-centric networks
- Efficient network and service monitoring for the Future Internet
- Automated configurations and repair
- Management of Software defined networks
- Management of OpenFlow based networks
- Management of social networks
- Abstractions for programmable network elements
- Accommodating context-awareness in management
- Advances in autonomic network management
- Federated management of the Future Internet
- Management of personalized services
- Computing and software as a network centric service
- Information exchange between different management layers, systems, and 
components
- The role of models, ontologies, and other knowledge abstractions in 
the Future Internet
- Uncertainty and probabilistic approaches to management of the Future 
Internet
- Privacy and anonymity in the Future Internet
- Experience reports from Future Internet experimental facilities set-up 
and results
- Support for bug free software defined networks : verification, 
testing, and debugging of SDN
- Integrated resource management of network and services
- Economic, Legal and Regulative Issues
- Economic aspects driving the deployment of Future Internet management 
technology
- Experience reports from management in experimental test beds

PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or 
experiences. Only original papers that have not been published or 
submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission 
must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract 
that clearly outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is 
a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures, 
tables, and references) for regular conference papers, and 4 pages for 
short papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE 
2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further 
review. Authors should submit their papers via JEMS: 
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/manfi2016).

PROCEEDINGS

Papers accepted for ManFI 2016 will be included in the conference 
proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE 
reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE 
Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Awards will be presented to the best paper.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

- Remi Badonnel, TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France
- Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Osaka University, Japan

STEERING COMMITTEE

- James Won-Ki Hong, Postech, Korea
- Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
- Filip de Turck, Ghent University, Belgium

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: December 15, 2015
- Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2016
- Final version of papers due: February 15, 2016
- Workshop date: April 25, 2016

For more information, please see http://www.manfi.org/.