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The 9th IFIP International Conference on <br>
Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2015)<br>
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June 22 - 26, 2015, Ghent, Belgium<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/">http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/</a><br>
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The AIMS international conference is a single-track event,
including<br>
conference paper sessions, hands-ons and keynotes, which
focuses on<br>
early research done by PhD students and young researchers in
network<br>
and service management and security. The participants find
here a<br>
dedicated place for getting a constructive feedback by
senior<br>
scientists and they benefit from tutorials on transversal aspects
of a<br>
research activity (e.g. publication strategies, paper
reviewing,<br>
research presentation design). By taking part in a
dedicated<br>
workshop, the PhD students are invited at an early stage to
present<br>
and motivate their work as well as their research plans.
Finally, by<br>
being involved in practical hands-on sessions, PhD students and
young<br>
researchers will get an up-to-date knowledge combined with
basic<br>
skills on emerging technologies. This way, AIMS acts
as a<br>
complementary piece in the set of international conferences in
the<br>
network and service management community.<br>
<br>
AIMS 2015 focuses on the secure, reliable and automated management
of <br>
networks and their services in an all-connected Future Internet.
New <br>
paradigms as well as autonomic and distributed algorithms,
virtuali- <br>
zation and monitoring techniques or self-organizing overlays
have <br>
to be investigated to design scalable and resilient frameworks
able <br>
to deal with dynamic and often domain-specific environments, and
also <br>
to cope with big data to process and content to be delivered.
The <br>
design, monitoring, configuration and protection of the
next <br>
generation of networked systems in an efficient secure, and
autonomic <br>
manner are crucial to commercially viable and successful networks
and <br>
services.<br>
<br>
Authors are invited to submit papers on the following
topics,<br>
including related fields:<br>
<br>
Network and service management<br>
- Wireless networks (adhoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, ...)<br>
- Internet of things<br>
- Smart cities<br>
- Smart grids<br>
- Cyber-physical networks<br>
- Overlay, grid and virtual networks<br>
- Big data Analytics<br>
- Software defined networks<br>
- Data centers and clouds (IaaS, Paas and SaaS)<br>
- Content delivery (P2P, CDN, ICN, ...)<br>
- Social networks<br>
- Future Internet<br>
<br>
Management functions<br>
- Intrusion detection<br>
- Protection of infrastructures and services<br>
- Security management<br>
- Configuration management<br>
- Accounting of systems, services and behaviors<br>
- Economic traffic management<br>
- Service provisioning<br>
- Resilience of management infrastructures and services<br>
- Privacy and management data<br>
- Quality of service and experience<br>
<br>
Techniques and Methodologies<br>
- Autonomic and self-management<br>
- Cognitive management<br>
- Distributed monitoring and correlation<br>
- Risk management<br>
- Knowledge plane design and deployment<br>
- P2P-based management<br>
- Modeling of management technologies and procedures<br>
- Flow based management<br>
- Scalability of management infrastructures<br>
- Experimental studies<br>
<br>
Conference Paper Submission:<br>
<br>
Only original, full papers that have not been published or
submitted<br>
for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission
must be<br>
written in English and will be limited to 12 pages,
references<br>
excluded, in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12
pages,<br>
multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
rejected<br>
without further review. Paper submission is handled by the
JEMS<br>
system, accessible from the AIMS 2015 web page.<br>
<br>
PhD Student Workshop Submission:<br>
<br>
The PhD student workshop is open to both junior PhD (max 2
years)<br>
and prospective PhD students. Authors are invited to submit
short <br>
papers (4 pages excluding references, written in English and in
LNCS <br>
format) describing the current state of their research. The
paper <br>
should include a clear description of the research problem and
the <br>
chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach
novel, <br>
and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific,
low-<br>
level technical details should be avoided. Papers will be
evaluated <br>
based on the proposed idea, methodology and foreseen impact.
Authors<br>
of the papers should only be the student and his/her
advisor(s). <br>
Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS 2015
proceedings.<br>
<br>
Proceedings:<br>
<br>
The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's
Lecture<br>
Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include
the<br>
conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers.<br>
<br>
Important Dates:<br>
- January 16, 2015: Paper registration deadline<br>
- January 23, 2015: Paper submission deadline<br>
- March 11, 2015: Notification of acceptance<br>
- April 1, 2015: Camera-ready papers due<br>
- June 22 - 26, 2015: AIMS 2015 conference <br>
<br>
General Co-Chairs<br>
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium <br>
<br>
Technical Program Co-chairs<br>
- Steven Latré, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, United Kingdom<br>
<br>
Ph.D. Student Workshop Co-chairs<br>
- Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
- Jérôme François, INRIA, France<br>
<br>
Publications Chair<br>
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
<br>
Steering Committee<br>
- Ramin Sadre, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium<br>
- Guillaume Doyen, University of Technology Troyes, France<br>
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente, Netherlands<br>
- Pavel Celeda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic<br>
- David Hausheer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany<br>
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands<br>
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
<br>
Technical Program Committee<br>
- Alessandro Finamore, Politecnico di Torino, Italy<br>
- Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom<br>
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA<br>
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA<br>
- Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA<br>
- Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London, United Kingdom<br>
- Bertrand Mathieu, Orange Labs, France<br>
- Bruno Quoitin, Université de Mons, Belgium<br>
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
- Danny Raz, Technion, Israel<br>
- David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany<br>
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich,
Germany<br>
- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, The Netherlands<br>
- Grégory Bonnet, University of Caen Lower Normandy, France<br>
- Isabelle Chrisment, TELECOM Nancy - Université de Lorraine,
France<br>
- Jan Korenek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic<br>
- Jérôme François, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br>
- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany<br>
- Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brasil<br>
- Martin Waldburger, WIK-Consult, Germany<br>
- Martin Zadnik, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic<br>
- Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy<br>
- Michelle Sibilla, Paul Sabatier University, France<br>
- Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France<br>
- Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France<br>
- Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland<br>
- Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br>
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
- Remi Badonnel, INRIA - TELECOM Nancy - University of Lorraine,
France<br>
- Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary<br>
- Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
- Vojtech Krmicek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic<br>
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PhD Student Workshop Committee<br>
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands<br>
- Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, UFRGS, Brazil<br>
- Arosha Bandara, The Open University, United Kingdom<br>
- Bradley Simmons, York University, Canada<br>
- Clarissa Marquezan, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany<br>
- Desislava Dimitrova, University of Bern, Switzerland<br>
- Dimitrios Pezaros, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom<br>
- Eleni Patouni, University of Athens, Greece<br>
- George Pavlou, University College London, United Kingdom<br>
- Javier Rubio-Loyola, CINVESTAV, Mexico<br>
- Jeroen Famaey, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Joan Serrat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain<br>
- Kostas Tsagkaris, University of Piraeus, Greece<br>
- Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, United Kingdom<br>
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil<br>
- Maxwell Young, Drexel University, USA<br>
- Ning Wang, University of Surrey, United Kingdom<br>
- Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>
- Steven Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland<br>
- Stylianos Georgoulas, University of Surrey, United Kingdom<br>
- Sven van der Meer, Ericsson, Ireland<br>
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