[Acadêmico] Chamada de Trabalhos - CFP - NOMS 2008 - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

Pessoal, está em inglês - o que não é problema para os que trabalham na área, não é verdade?

Grande evento internacional e que estará sendo realizado no melhor local do mundo:

Aqui em Salvador - Bahia
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EEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008
(20th Year Anniversary!)
Pervasive Management for Ubiquitous Networks and Services

7-11 April 2008
Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

http://www.ieee-noms.org/2008

The 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008)
will be held on 7-11 April 2008 in the exiting and lively city of Salvador -
Bahia - Brazil. Held in even-numbered years, NOMS 2008 will follow the 20 years
tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of the
research, standards, development, systems integration, service provider, and
user communities. NOMS 2008 will present innovative approaches and technical
solutions for integrated systems and services including communication
networks,
host systems, enterprise applications, service oriented architectures, and
delivery of management services. The conference provides a highly selective
peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, and
software
tools sessions. In addition, the conference offers tutorials, posters, and
panels as well as vendor exhibits covering many aspects of management.

Management gets pervasive and needs to vanish since the networks and systems
are vanishing from the users' perception. Users should stay users, not
managers
of their information and communication platforms and services. Pervasive
systems and services require considerations for multi-service and
multi-domain
environments of heterogeneous technologies, wide range of service offerings,
new management strategies, and business models. Pervasive management
encompasses provisioning, operation, and maintenance for up-scaled systems
and
still not bother users and administrator enabling automated management. This
broad scope and the distributed nature also call for new approaches to
dependability, resilience, quality-of-service, mobility management, and
services billing. In particular, these considerations include the
combination
of wireless and wired (FMC), high and low throughput systems, and small as
well
as large scale deployments.

NOMS 2008 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster,
panel, and software tools. Technical sessions will present very high-quality
papers on the latest research results in the network operations and
management
area. Application sessions will present papers focusing on the experience of
IT
and telecommunications industries, such as service providers, OSS vendors,
and
equipment manufacturers. The scope here includes customer requirements,
management system implementations, and business practices. Poster sessions
will
provide an insight into work-in-progress. Panel sessions will focus on
business
implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists that
are
technology and business leaders. The software tools sessions are targeted
for
the presentation of software tools including open source management software
and demonstrations of research prototypes. Accepted papers will be published
in
the IEEE Digital Library and the conference proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit complete, unpublished papers that are not
under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic
areas:
Management Paradigms and Architectures

* Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing,
self-protecting
and self-configuring)
* Self-adaptive applications
* Autonomic management of networks, systems, and services
* Self-repairing distributed systems
* Integrated control and management
* Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management
* P2P approaches for scalable network management
* Policy and role based management
* Programmable, active, and adaptive management
* Resilience, dependability, and survivability
* "Plug-n-Play" component-based management
* Customer controlled and managed networks
* Proactive and reactive management
* Biologically inspired management systems and techniques

Theories and Models

* AI techniques for management: knowledge-based, intelligent agents,
machine learning, neural networks
* Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management
* Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies
* Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM,
SID)

Management Standards and Enabling Technologies

* Integration and middleware technologies for management
* Service-oriented architectures and management
* Data warehousing, ontology, mining and statistical methods in
management
* Next generation operation support systems
* User interfaces and virtual reality in management
* Inter-domain Management

Management and Virtual Environments

* Managing virtual resources and services (VPNs, VLANs)
* Virtualization of operations centers, help desks
* Information modeling in virtual environments

Service Engineering and Operational Challenges

* Service design and quality assurance
* Resource inventory, planning, and allocation
* Service discovery and service negotiation
* SLA and business process management
* Quality-of-Service (QoS) management
* Service portability/mobility (VHE)
* Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management
* "Soft" networks (Soft-switch, Parlay, 3GPP OSA, JAIN) and service
switching
* Dynamic service requirements analysis
* Charging and accounting of integrated systems and services
* Self-adaptive e-business services
* Self-organized service deployment

Operation and Management Functions

* Security management, federated identity management
* Mobility management
* End-to-end measurements
* Network, service, and systems monitoring
* Alarm and event correlation and filtering
* Customer care and workforce management
* Process engineering for operators' service and network management
* Performance and fault management
* Configuration and accounting management
* Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products
* Management of content hosting and delivery
* Path Protection and restoration
* Internet service pricing, bandwidth trading
* Decision making in self-* systems

Management of Emerging Networks and Services

* Converged networks and services
* Peer-to-peer and community networks
* Grids, grid services, and grid applications
* Ad hoc and self-configurable networks
* Multi-sensor and self-organizing networks
* Overlay networks, virtual topologies and VPN services
* Wireless broadband networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond)
* High speed access, Wireless Local (WLANs) and Personal Area Networks
(PANs)
* Optical networks (metropolitan, all optical, WDM, DWDM, optical IP)
* Video and broadband cable networks
* VoIP/NGN infrastructures and services
* IP TV, Video on Demand
* FTTX networks, services, and protocols
* Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASPs server farms
* Web services and content delivery networks
* Smart homes and networked haptics
* Satellite and interplanetary networks
* e-World (e-health, e-commerce, e-business, and e-government)

Organizational Aspects of IT Service Management

* Process engineering and process frameworks (ITIL, eTOM)
* Quality management for IT service provisioning
* Workflow management for IT service provisioning
* Risk management and IT governance issues
* Business alignment of IT service management

Submission Instructions

Please use the appropiate link to submit your technical or
application session papers, because submissions will be handled
differently. Misdirected papers stand at risk of not being considered.
Click here (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=526)
to go direct to the submission system (JEMS).

Technical Sessions Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in
PDF format through the JEMS web site . Only original, full papers that have
not
been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each
submission will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style (see below for
Templates). Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and
self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.

Application Sessions Papers Submission

Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The paper
format will be one of annotated slides - papers should have a visual in the
upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper
submissions should consist of no more than 15 annotated visuals in PDF only.
The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords
indicating the paper's topic area , author's full names, affiliations and
complete addresses, and electronic mail addresses.

Important Dates

August 24, 2007 Abstract Registration
September 1, 2007 Deadline for Technical Session Papers
September 1, 2007 Deadline for Workshop Proposals
October 1, 2007 Deadline for Application Papers
October 1, 2007 Deadline for Posters
October 1, 2007 Deadline for Software Tools
October 1, 2007 Deadline for Panel Proposals
October 1, 2007 Deadline for Tutorial Proposals
November 15, 2007 Notification of Acceptance
January 15, 2008 Final Camera Ready Papers Due
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