The 16th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018) will be held 23‐27 April 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan. Held in even‐numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2018 will follow the 30 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. The theme of NOMS2018 will be Towards Cognitive Management in a Cyber World, presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with management of Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks, Clouds, and Vertical Systems (e.g., smart cities and smart transportations, etc.) in order to enable convergence of the networked services. NOMS 2018 will offer various types of sessions: keynotes, technical, experience, demo, tutorial, poster, panel, and dissertation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:



Smart Vertical Systems in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era

Smart Cities
Smart Grid
Smart Homes
Cyber‐Physical Systems
Internet of Things
5G
Social Networks
Applications and case studies
Software‐Defined Networking (SDN),
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Network virtualization
Control plane programmability
Data plane programmability
Management & Orchestration (MANO)
Service Function Chaining
Protocols, languages and frameworks
Open source networking (ONOS, CORD, ODL, ONAP, OSM, OVS, DPDK, etc.)
Cloud native networking
Case studies and practical deployments
Technologies Enabling Smart Management.

Management with Big Data
Management with AI, Deep Learning
Data, information, and semantic modeling
Message and software buses
Middleware, Mobile agents, Protocols
Software engineering for clouds
Software product lines
Virtualization
Web services
Security Management

Intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, intrusion response
Network security
Security for peer‐to‐peer and overlay networks
Security for smart X and large systems and critical infrastructures
Privacy and anonymity
Vulnerability management
Early warning
Network Management & Operational Experience

Ad‐hoc networks
Automotive and Vehicular Networks
Big Data in and for management
Broadband access networks
Cognitive Radio networks
Data Centers
e‐Maintenance
Future Internet
Heterogeneous networks
Home networks
M2M networks
OSS/BSS development
Overlay networks
Personal area networks
Sensor networks
Wireless & mobile networks
Service Management

Business management
Clouds
Data center management
Data service management
Hosting
Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service
IT service management
Managed service provisioning
Multimedia service management
OTT service management
Virtualized infrastructure management
Functional areass

Billing, Accounting
Configuration and Deployment
Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting
Fault management
Energy‐efficiency/green management
Service Assurance
Service Fulfillment
Service Level Management
Security Management
Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

Control theory
Data collection and aggregation
Data mining, Machine learning
Design and simulation
Economic/finance theories
Experimental approaches
Optimization theory
Probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory
Risk management
Software engineering methodologies
Visualization
Management approaches

Autonomic and self‐management
Best practices
Centralized management
Distributed management
Integrated management
Management architectures
Organizational aspects
Policy‐based management
Process oriented management
IT service management (ITSM)
Process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, CobIT, RiskIT, ValIT)