Call for Technical Papers

The 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2010) will be held 19-23 April 2010 at the Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2010 will follow the 22 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on network and service management focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2010 will present up-to-date approaches and technical solutions for novel management paradigms to deal with the new management issues in future infrastructures such as Web 2.0 or beyond service environments, cloud computing platforms, large-scale datacenters, and the Future Internet, as well targeting the conventional issues in large and complex services, systems, and networks.

NOMS 2010 will offer four types of sessions: technical, application, poster, and panel sessions. Technical sessions will present high-quality papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions will include papers focusing on the experience in 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 provide an insight into work-in-progress. Panel sessions will focus on business implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists who are the technology and business leaders.

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following or related topical areas:

Network Management
. Ad-hoc networks
. Wireless & mobile networks
. IP networks
. LANs
. Optical networks
. Sensor networks
. Overlay networks
. Broadband access networks


Functional Areas
. Fault management
. Configuration management
. Accounting management
. Performance management
. Security management
. SLA management
. Event management


Technologies
. Protocols
. Middleware
. Mobile agents
. Peer-to-peer
. Data, information, and semanticmodeling





Service Management
.Multimedia service management
.Data service management
.Hosting
.Grid
.Virtualization

Business Management
.Legal & ethical issues
.Process management
Management Approaches
.Centralized management
.Distributed management
.Autonomic and self-management
.Policy-based management
Methodologies for Network Management
.Control theories
.Optimization theories
.Economic theories
.Machine learning and genetic algorithms
.Logics
.Probabilistic, stochastic processes, queuing theory
.Simulation
.Experimental approach
.Design



Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the NOMS 2010 web site. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.


General Co-Chairs:
Nobuo Fujii, NTT-AT, Japan
James Hong, POSTECH, Korea

Important Dates :
Paper Registration & Submission: 1 September 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 8 November 2009
Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 January 2010


For more information, please contact the one of
TPC Co-Chairs:
Yoshiaki Kiriha, NICT, Japan
kiriha@nict.go.jp
Deep Medhi, UMKC, USA
dmedhi@umkc.edu
Lisandro Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
granville@inf.ufrgs.br