[Tccc] Call for Papers - LANOMS 2009 - submission deadline: May 31, 2009

6th Latin-American Network Operations and Management Symposium
October 19th-21st, 2009
Barradas Hotel
Punta del Este, Uruguay
http://www.lanoms.org/2009/

Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE/IFIP/WG 6.6 (pending)

The 6th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS
2009) will be held on October 19th-21st, 2008 at the Conrad Resort &
Casino in Punta del Este, Uruguay. LANOMS 2009 will offer the latest
technical advances in all aspects of the operation and management of
distributed infrastructures, including networks, application services and
distributed systems in general. LANOMS has been held in odd-numbered years
since 1999 and pursues the tradition of the NOMS and APNOMS events.

LANOMS 2009 is promoted by the University of the Republic of Uruguay
(UdelaR). It aims to be the primary forum in Latin America for the
exchange of ideas and results among the research, standards, vendor and
user communities in the field of operations and management. The symposium
is co-sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing
(IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems
, and by the IEEE Communications Society (pending).

Several types of sessions will be held at LANOMS 2009.

Technical sessions will be held for the presentation of full scientific
papers discussing recent research results.
Poster sessions are directed for more informal interactions and presenting
work in progress. Short papers can be submitted for consideration as
poster presentations. Posters will be selected from these short papers and
full papers.
Application sessions aim to complement the Technical Sessions with
contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learnt in
conjunction with management technology. They will focus on aspects such as
real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new
services and technology, industrial applications of management technology,
implementation examples of new management technology, organizational
impact, and business cases. The intended audience especially includes
decision makers and experts from industry.

Travel Grants:

Thanks to the supporting organizations, LANOMS 2009 has a travel grants
program. Authors of outstanding papers can apply. Please contact Travel
Grants Chair Martin Giachino at giachino@fing.edu.uy.

Paper submissions:

Paper submissions will undergo a rigorous review process performed by the
Technical Program Committee, which includes the most respected experts in
the field. We encourage the submission of papers that present new research
results or that present insightful results based on experience with the
operation and management of networks, systems, applications and
services.The LANOMS 2009 invites authors from all over the world to submit
original and unpublished work to both technical and application tracks.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Topics

Management Paradigms, Models, Theories and Architectures

* Integrated control and management
* Distributed, cooperative and scalable management
* Policy and role based management
* Proactive and reactive management
* Programmable, active, and adaptive management
* Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM)
* Management using Web Services
* Ontologies in management
* Resilience, dependability and survivability
* Component-based management
* Customer-controlled and managed networks
* Theories (control, optimization, economic, games, chaos, graph) for
management

Enabling Management Technologies

* Autonomic Computing and Self-Management
* Grid, middleware and peer-to-peer technologies
* User interfaces and virtual reality in management
* Data warehousing, mining and statistical methods in management
* AI techniques (knowledge-based, intelligent agents, machine
learning, neural networks)

Operation and Management Functions

* Security management
* Mobility management
* End-to-end measurements
* Network and systems monitoring
* Alarm correlation, filtering and fault management
* Customer care and workforce management
* Process engineering for operators' service and network management
* Performance management
* Configuration and accounting management
* Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products
* Content hosting and delivery
* Path Protection and Restoration
* Internet service pricing, bandwidth trading

IT Service Management

* Process Engineering and Process Frameworks (ITIL, eTOM)
* IT service delivery processes
* IT service support processes
* Workflow Management for IT Service Provisioning
* Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management
* Service discovery and service negotiation
* Risk Management and IT Governance Issues
* Business-Driven IT Management

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, VoD, FTTX networks, services, and protocols (IPv4, IPv6,
H.323, SIP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, MGCP, and QoS)
* Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASP/MSP server farms
* Management of Web Services
* Content delivery networks
* Smart homes and networked haptics
* Satellite and interplanetary networks

And special topics of interest to Latin America such as:

* Management experience of academic networks
* Management experience of metropolitan networks
* Management of community wireless networks
* Brazilian Giga Project
* EELA-2 Project
* OLPC deployment, such as CEIBAL and UCA projects
* Experience with Planet Lab
* IPv4/v6 networks and services
* Experience with advanced networks (Clara, Internet2, Ampath, Géant)

Important Dates

* Paper registration and submission deadline: May 31, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2009
* Final camera ready paper due: July 12, 2009

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF format through
the LANOMS 2009 web site. Papers must be written in English. Only original
papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere
can be submitted. Self-plagiarized papers and multiple submissions will be
rejected without further review.

Full papers should not exceed the limit of 12 pages. Short papers should
not exceed the limit of 4 pages. Format full and short papers using the
IEEE 2-column style. Sample files and templates can be downloaded from the
LANOMS 2009 Web site. Application papers consist of annotated slides and
should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text
in the lower half, following the current IM/NOMS format, and should not
exceed 12 visuals in PDF only. A PowerPoint template and a sample PDF file
can be downloaded from the LANOMS Web site as well.

All selected papers will be published in the LANOMS proceedings. All
papers appearing in the proceedings will be included in IEEExplore.
Authors of scientific papers (full and short) should submit a PDF file at
https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2009. Please select "Poster session" if you
are submitting a short paper. Authors of application papers should submit
at https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2009_app. Please prepare your submission
to the application session using this template..

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted.

Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be submitted for
fast-track publication in Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier)

Organizing Committee

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Nazim Agoulmine (nazim.agoulmine at iup.univ-evry.fr)
University of Evry Val d'Essonne

Eduardo Grampín (grampin at fing.edu.uy)
University of the Republic of Uruguay

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Javier Baliosian (javierba at fing.edu.uy)
University of the Republic of Uruguay

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (granville at inf.ufrgs.br)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

APPLICATIONS CHAIR
Héctor Cancela
University of the Republic of Uruguay

Jose Neuman de Souza
Federal University of Ceara

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Pablo Rodriguez-Bocca
University of the Republic of Uruguay

TRAVEL GRANTS CHAIR
Martin Giachino
University of the Republic of Uruguay

Steering Committee

Rolf Stadler
(Sweden)

Joan Serrat
(Spain)

Luciano P. Gaspary
(Brazil)

Bruno Schulze
(Brazil)

Carlos B. Westphall
(Brazil)

Gonzalo Perera
(Uruguay)

Pablo Belzarena
(Uruguay)

José Neuman de Souza
(Brazil )

Technical Program Committee

Abdelmalek Benzekri
Université Paul Sabatier

Aldri dos Santos
Universidade Federal do Paraná

Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro
UFMG

Ariel Sabiguero
Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República

Artur Ziviani
LNCC

Bruno Schulze
LNCC

Carlos Westphall
Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina

Ed Pinnes
Telcordia Technologies

Edmundo Monteiro
University of Coimbra

Eduardo Grampin
Universidad de la Republica de Uruguay

Fátima Duarte-Figueiredo
PUC Minas

Franco Robledo
Universidad de la República

Hanan Lutfiyya
University of Western Ontario

Hector Cancela
Universidad de la Republica

James Hong
POSTECH

Javier Baliosian
University of the Republic

Javier Barria
Imperial College London

Joan Serrat
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

José De Souza
UFC

José Piquer
Universidad de Chile

Jose-Marcos Nogueira
UFMG

Linnyer Ruiz
UEL

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
UFRGS

Luciano Paschoal Gaspary
UFRGS

Lundy Lewis
Southern New Hampshire University

Mauro Tortonesi
University of Ferrara

Mehmet Ulema
Manhattan College

Nazim Agoulmine
University of Evry

Pablo Belzarena
Universidad de la República

Pablo Rodríguez-Bocca
Universidad de la República

Paulo Simoes
University of Coimbra

Rossana Andrade
UFC

Tereza Carvalho
USP