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DSOM 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
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19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and
Management DSOM 2008 (part of MANWEEK 2008, September 22-26)
Samos Island, Greece
www.manweek.org/2008/dsom

"Managing Large Scale Service Deployment"

The International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management
(DSOM) is the premier annual workshop in the general area of network and
services management. It has built up its strong reputation over a period of
almost two decades. The workshop is sponsored by the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management
of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the
IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and
Management (CNOM). In its 19th edition, DSOM 2008 will be held September
25-26, 2008 on the Island of Samos, Greece, as part of the 4th International
Week on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK 2008).

SCOPE OF DSOM 2008

The primary theme of DSOM 2008 will be "Managing Large Scale Service
Deployment" focusing both on management of overlay networks and on
virtualized service infrastructures. The concepts of abstract overlays and
virtualization could constitute key contributors for efficient large scale
service deployment and testing. Scalable abstract overlay networks
accompanied with appropriate management techniques could offer flexibility
for future service deployment and consumption with high quality of
experience. Virtualization decouples service substantiation from its actual
realization over networking and IT infrastructures enabling wide-scale
deployment of services. The goal of DSOM 2008 is to bring together industry
and academia to address the research issues related to managing large scale
services deployment, report on practical experiences and discuss about
future research steps.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Management of next generation service networks
- Virtualization of networks and services
- Self-management and virtualization in distributed systems
- Performance and QoS management in virtualized environments
- Scalable overlay network management
- Algorithms for dynamic overlay network topology construction and
service selection
- Distributed, decentralized, and P2P-based overlay network management

- QoS and resilience through overlay networks
- Dynamic service deployment for fault tolerance, resource efficiency
and high availability
- Federated experimental facilities
- Large scale distributed middleware
- Management and operations of massively redundant data centers
- P2P techniques for management of massive amounts of data and
services
- Middleware for efficient management of sensor network services
- Large scale personal content management systems
- Managing security in a virtual environment
- Fault management and event correlation
- Monitoring and measurements

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or
experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from
ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to DSOM 2008. Papers
under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2008. Authors are
requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress
reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below):
. Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)
. Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 6 single-spaced
single-column pages)
Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed
and will be returned to the authors. Please visit JEMS conference management
system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/ (only PDF files are accepted) for
detailed submission instructions.

PROCEEDINGS
The DSOM 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding
manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS
Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student
paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of DSOM 2008 will be
invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management - TNSM.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Paper Registration: April 21 2008
Submission: April 28 2008
Notification: June 13 2008
Camera ready: June 30 2008
Conference: September 22-26 2008

CO-CHAIRS
Filip De Turck (Ghent University, Belgium)
Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo, Germany)
George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece)

TPC Members
Alexander Keller (IBM Global Technology Services)
Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia)
Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
Carlos Westphall (Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina)
Claudio Bartolini (HP Laboratories)
Cynthia Hood (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Danny Raz (Technion)
David Lewis (Trinity College Dublin)
Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)
Emil Lupu (Imperial College)
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London)
Evaggelos Pallis (Centre for Technological Research of Crete)
Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Frιdιric Le Mouλl (INRIA Amazones / INSA Lyon)
Gabi Dreo Rodosek (University of Federal Armed Forces)
Gabriel Jakobson (Altusys Corp.)
Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School)
George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Bussiness)
Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario)
Hong Li (Intel Corporation)
Issam Aib (University of Waterloo)
James Hong (POSTECH)
Javier Baliosian (University of the Republic)
Joan Serrat (Universitat Politθcnica de Catalunya)
John Vicente (Intel Corporation)
Jorge Lσpez de Vergara (Universidad Autσnoma de Madrid)
Jose-Marcos Nogueira (UFMG)
Juergen Quittek (NEC Europe Ltd.)
Juergen Schoenwaelder (Jacobs University Bremen)
Kurt Geihs (Universitδt Kassel)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)
Luca Deri (ntop.org)
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS)
Makoto Yoshida (The University of Tokyo)
Marcus Brunner (NEC Europe Ltd.)
Masum Hasan (Cisco Systems)
Metin Feridun (IBM Research)
Nevil Brownlee (The University of Auckland)
Omar Cherkaoui (University of Quebec in Montreal)
Philippe Dobbelaere (Alcatel-Lucent)
Radu State (LORIA - INRIA Lorraine)
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)
S. Felix Wu (University of California at Davis)
Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd.)
Stιphane Frιnot (INRIA Amazones)
Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens)
Thierry Coupaye (France Telecom)
Thierry Pollet (Alcatel-Lucent)
Tim Wauters (University of Ghent)
Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin)
Xiaoyun Zhu (Hetlett Packard Labs)
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (LRSM - ENSIIE)
Yang Richard Yang (Yale University)
Yangcheng Huang (Ericsson)
Yixin Diao (IBM Research)
Yoshiaki Kiriha (NEC)

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Dr. Wolfgang Kellerer
Senior Manager
Ubiquitous Networking Research
DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH
Landsberger Str. 312
80687 Munich, Germany

Tel. +49-89-56824-222
Fax. +49-89-56824-300
E-mail: kellerer@docomolab-euro.com
http://www.docomolab-euro.com

Managing Directors (Geschaeftsfuehrer):
Dr. Toru Otsu, Dr. Narumi Umeda, Kazushige Yoshida
Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 132967
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