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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> IEEE/IFIP IM 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> *** Special Track on Autonomic Management ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Lisbon, Portugal, 8-12 May 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New""> http:/goo.gl/8Hc64L<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(Paper Submission Date: 24 January 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Programmable and software networks require more than ever management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">systems with smart, adaptive and effective decisions, recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and actuations. Management systems should incorporate autonomic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">management principles to be able to sense their environment, perceive the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">changes and react quickly to changing conditions in order to optimize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">operation and performance, diagnose faults, and protect from threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers for this special session should address the diverse challenges in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the development and deployment of autonomic management solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">including, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and self-protection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> in programmable and software-defined networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Self-optimization for dynamic controllers and virtual network functions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> placement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Policy-based management, including imperative, declarative (intent),
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> and other paradigms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Learning and reasoning techniques for programmable networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Data analytics and machine learning for autonomic management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Autonomic based service lifecycle management and orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Autonomic resource allocation and configuration in virtualized
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Adaptive scheduling in cloud computing environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This special track is supported by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Subcommittee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">on Autonomic Communications (TCAC). More information about TCAC can be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">found at http://ac.committees.comsoc.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper Submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">pages (excluding references). All papers should be submitted through<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">JEMS at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2717<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to IEEE Xplore. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper submission: Jan. 24, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Author notification: Feb. 15, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Final paper due: March 1, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Conference date: May 8-12, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Special Track Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Imen Grida Ben Yahia (Orange Labs, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Noura Limam (University of Waterloo, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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