<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font face="Courier">We apologize for multiples copies. Please circulate this CFP among</font></div><div><font face="Courier">your colleagues and students.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">**********************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier"> The 7th International Conference on </font></div><div><font face="Courier"> Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2013)</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier"> June 25-28, 2013, UPC Barcelona, Spain</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier"> <a href="http://www.aims-conference.org/2013/">http://www.aims-conference.org/2013/</a></font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">**********************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal</font></div><div><font face="Courier">conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD student</font></div><div><font face="Courier">workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is</font></div><div><font face="Courier">to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across</font></div><div><font face="Courier">researchers of different communities and among PhD</font></div><div><font face="Courier">students. Furthermore, AIMS 2013 integrates 1.5 days of courses and</font></div><div><font face="Courier">labs which offer hands-on learning experiences in network and service</font></div><div><font face="Courier">management topics and which require attendees to work in practical</font></div><div><font face="Courier">on-site courses combined with preceding short tutorial-like teaching</font></div><div><font face="Courier">sessions.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">AIMS 2013 focuses on the theme of managing and monitoring of</font></div><div><font face="Courier">next-generation networks, network security and services. New paradigms</font></div><div><font face="Courier">as well as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization</font></div><div><font face="Courier">and monitoring techniques or self-organizing overlays have to be</font></div><div><font face="Courier">investigated to design scalable and resilient frameworks able to deal</font></div><div><font face="Courier">with dynamic environments providing big data to process while also</font></div><div><font face="Courier">protecting privacy. The design, monitoring, configuration and</font></div><div><font face="Courier">protection of the next generation of networked systems in an</font></div><div><font face="Courier">efficient, secure, and autonomic manner are crucial to commercially</font></div><div><font face="Courier">viable and successful networks and services.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Authors are invited to submit papers on the following topics,</font></div><div><font face="Courier">including related fields:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Network Management and Operational Experience</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Internet of things</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Sensor networks</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Smart grids</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- SCADA networks</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- P2P and overlay networks</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Information Centric Networks</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Big data</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Future Internet</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Virtualized environments</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Management Functions</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Detection of attacks</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Protection of infrastructures and services</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Security monitoring</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Configuration management</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Accounting of systems, services and behaviors</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Service provisioning</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Resilience of management infrastructures and services</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Privacy of collected data</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Quality of service and experience</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Techniques and Methodologies</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Autonomous management</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Distributed monitoring and correlation</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Knowledge plane design and deployment</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Adaptability and self-organization</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- P2P-based management</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Modeling of management technologies and procedures</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Machine learning</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Decision algorithms</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Flow-based management</font></div><div><font face="Courier">- Scalability of management infrastructures</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Conference Paper Submission:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted</font></div><div><font face="Courier">for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be</font></div><div><font face="Courier">limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12</font></div><div><font face="Courier">pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be</font></div><div><font face="Courier">rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the</font></div><div><font face="Courier">JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2013 Web page.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">PhD Student Workshop Submission:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">The PhD student workshop is open to both PhD and prospective PhD</font></div><div><font face="Courier">students. Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written</font></div><div><font face="Courier">in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their</font></div><div><font face="Courier">research. The paper should include a clear description of the research</font></div><div><font face="Courier">problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the</font></div><div><font face="Courier">approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to</font></div><div><font face="Courier">date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers</font></div><div><font face="Courier">should have no more than two authors – the student and the</font></div><div><font face="Courier">advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS 2013</font></div><div><font face="Courier">proceedings.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Proceedings:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture</font></div><div><font face="Courier">Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include the</font></div><div><font face="Courier">conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Important Dates:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - February 10, 2013: Paper registration and submission deadline</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - March 19, 2013: Notification of acceptance</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - April 9, 2013: Camera-ready papers due</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - June 25-28, 2013: AIMS 2013 conference and summer school</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">General Chair</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Technical Program Co-chairs</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Guillaume Doyen, Troyes University of Technology, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Martin Waldburger, University of Zürich, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">PhD Student Workshop Co-chairs</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Pavel Čeleda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Anna Sperotto, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Labs Co-chairs</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Juan-Luis Gorricho, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Thomas Schaaf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Publications Chair</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Steering Committee</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Ramin Sadre, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Technical Program Committee</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Rémi Badonnel, ESIAL-Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Isabelle Chrisment, LORIA University of Nancy, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Filip De Turck, Ghent University IBBT, Belgium</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Jérôme François, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Alex Galis, University College London, UK</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London, UK</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Lisandro Z. Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Jan Kořenek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Hanan Lutifiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Bruno Quoitin, University of Mons, Belgium</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Danny Raz, Technion, Israel</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Ramin Sadre, University of Twente, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Michelle Sibilla, Université de Toulouse, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Tim Wauters, IBBT, Belgium</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">PhD Student Workshop Committee</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Desislava Dimitrova, University of Bern, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Martin Drašar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Alessandro Finamore, Politecnico di Torino, Italy</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Josef Kaderka, University of Defence, Czech Republic</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Abdelkader Lahmadi, LORIA-Nancy University-INPL, France</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Philip Leroux, Ghent University, Belgium</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Eleni Patouni, University of Athens, Greece</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Thomas Schaaf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Vasilios Siris, FORTH / Univ. of Crete, Greece</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Hans van den Berg, TNO, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> - Martin Žádník, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic</font></div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>