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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>
<br>
The 9th International Conference on <br>
Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2015)<br>
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June 22 - June 25, 2015, Ghent, Belgium<br>
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<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 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure,
Management<br>
and Security (AIMS 2015) is a single-track event integrating
regular<br>
conference paper sessions, courses and labs, keynotes on
both<br>
educational and scientific research topics, and a Ph.D.
student<br>
workshop into a highly interactive event. Especially, AIMS
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 constructive feedback by
senior<br>
scientists and they benefit from tutorials on educational aspects
of a<br>
research activity (e.g. this year "Where to publish?"). By taking
part<br>
in a dedicated workshop, the PhD students are invited at an
early<br>
stage to present and motivate their work as well as their
research<br>
plans. Finally, by being involved in practical hands-on sessions,
PhD<br>
students and young researchers will get an up-to-date
knowledge<br>
combined with basic skills on emerging technologies. This way,
AIMS<br>
acts as a complementary piece in the set of international
conferences<br>
in the network and service management community.<br>
<br>
AIMS 2015 is the ninth edition of a conference series on
management<br>
and security aspects of distributed and autonomous systems. It
follows<br>
the already established tradition of an unusually vivid
and<br>
interactive conference series. This year, AIMS 2015
focuses on<br>
the secure, reliable and automated management of networks and
their <br>
services in an all-connected Future Internet. This theme is
addressed <br>
in the technical program with papers related to
monitoring, <br>
security, and management methodologies in the application
areas of <br>
wired and wireless networks, Internet of Things,
Cloud <br>
infrastructures, Network Functions Virtualization and Software
Defined<br>
Networking.<br>
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* Courses and Labs<br>
<br>
AIMS 2015 features three hands-on lab sessions spread across
its<br>
four-day program. They provide participants with the
opportunity to<br>
gain first hand experience with several state-of-the-art network
and<br>
service management technologies and tools. Each lab session
starts<br>
with a brief theoretical tutorial-style introduction and is
followed<br>
by a hands-on part, allowing participants to experiment with the
tools<br>
through a set of practical exercises. The first lab session
introduces<br>
MapReduce and Hadoop, and how it can be applied to
different <br>
challenges today's community is facing in network management.
The <br>
second lab session deals with setting up NFV in testbeds and
aims<br>
at familiarizing all participants with the concept of NFV in
general <br>
and possible benefits of combining it with SDN. This
will be <br>
accomplished by deploying several network functions on the
Virtual <br>
Wall and interconnecting them using OpenFlow. Finally, the third
lab <br>
session addresses the (big) data analysis challenges that
arise in <br>
network management. It will introduce the open source ELK stack
and <br>
its components, including Elasticsearch for deep search and
data <br>
analytics, Logstash for centralized logging, log enrichment,
and <br>
parsing, and Kibana for powerful and beautiful data
visualizations. <br>
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* Keynote, Conference, and Ph.D. Workshop<br>
<br>
AIMS 2015 will feature a keynote by Burkhard Stiller who is a
professor<br>
at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He will talk
about <br>
"Management of Big Data - The Areas of Conflict: Data Volume,
Analysis <br>
Methods, and Protection". This keynote will introduce and
partially <br>
define the term "Big Data", it will discuss the embedding of Big
Data <br>
into today's society, and will work out key details of the Big
Data <br>
management dimension, driven by selected examples, which
face a <br>
diversity of opportunities and risks. Moreover, a second keynote
will <br>
be given by Piet Demeester, head of the Department of
Internet <br>
Technologies at iMinds, Belgium. Based on his 30 year of
experience in <br>
research, this talk will provide a viewpoint on current and
important <br>
challenges in network-related research. Additionally, advice
will be <br>
provided for young researchers, who want to pursue either an
academic <br>
career or a career in industry. Moreover, the two technical
sessions <br>
will present the latest results in security management, and
Future<br>
Internet management. The conference program is
complemented by <br>
two additional technical sessions from the AIMS Ph.D.
workshop <br>
covering a total of 9 Ph.D. papers on the topics of
network <br>
virtualization, security management, SDN, content delivery,
Internet <br>
of Things and cloud computing.<br>
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* Venue<br>
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AIMS 2015 will be held at Ghent University in Ghent,
Belgium. <br>
Republic. The venue is located in the city center of Ghent and
easily<br>
reachable (walking distance) from recommended hotels.
Further<br>
information on the venue as well as on accommodation at special
rates<br>
is available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/accommodation.html">http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/accommodation.html</a><br>
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* Registration<br>
<br>
To register please use the form available at<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/registration.html">http://www.aims-conference.org/2015/registration.html</a><br>
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* Organization<br>
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General Co-Chairs<br>
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium<br>
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Technical Program Co-Chairs<br>
- Steven Latré, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium<br>
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, United Kingdom<br>
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PhD Workshop Chairs<br>
- Jérôme François, INRIA, France<br>
- Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
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Lab Session Co-Chairs<br>
- Ricardo Schmidt, Twente University, the Netherlands<br>
- Tim Wauters, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium<br>
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Publications Chair<br>
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
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