CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future
Internet (ManFI) 2013

27 May 2013
Ghent, Belgium
http://www.manfi.org/
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The Fifth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future
Internet (ManFI 2013) will be held in conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE
Integrated Network Management symposium (IM 2013) in Ghent, Belgium,
from May 27-31, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE
Communications Society and is endorsed by the Technical Committee on
Network Operations and Management (CNOM) and by the EU FP7 Flamingo
Network of Excellence research project.
Following the success of the previous editions of this workshop, the
main goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research
results and experience reports in the area of Future Internet
Management, addressing amongst others currently important topics such as
efficient network and service monitoring for the Future Internet,
management of virtualized networks and services, management of IaaS,
PaaS, SaaS offerings, content-aware and information-centric networks,
management of software defined networks, federated management of the
Future Internet, and economic based network and service management.
ManFI 2013 will combine original full paper presentations with a
motivating keynote, quick hot topic presentations and a panel
discussion. Furthermore, the workshop attendees will be stimulated to
participate in interesting discussions amongst the attendees, such that
all participants can take home lots of ideas for consideration in their
ongoing research projects or start new research projects to address the
challenging topics. To this end, short papers describing late-breaking
advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also
welcome.


[[TOPICS OF INTEREST]]
Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to
one or multiple topic areas listed below:
- Design of architectural building blocks for managing the Future Internet
- Advances in measurement, management, security, accounting, mobility,
and other functions of the Future Internet
- Virtualization of resources and services
- Management of cloud computing infrastructures
- Efficient Management of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings
- Content-aware and Information-centric networks
- Efficient network and service monitoring for the Future Internet
- Automated configurations and repair
- Management of Software defined networks
- Management of OpenFlow based networks
- Management of social networks
- Abstractions for programmable network elements
- Accommodating context-awareness in management
- Advances in autonomic network management
- Federated management of the Future Internet
- Management of personalized services
- Computing and software as a network centric service
- Information exchange between different management layers, systems, and
components
- The role of models, ontologies, and other knowledge abstractions in
the Future Internet
- Uncertainty and probabilistic approaches to management of the Future
Internet
- Privacy and anonymity in the Future Internet
- Experience reports from Future Internet experimental facilities set-up
and results
- Support for bug free software defined networks : verification,
testing, and debugging of SDN
- Integrated resource management of network and services
- Economic, Legal and Regulative Issues
- Economic aspects driving the deployment of Future Internet management
technology
- Experience reports from management in experimental test beds

[[PAPER SUBMISSION]]
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or
experiences. Only original papers that have not been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission
must be written in English, accompanied by a 75 to 200 words abstract
that clearly outlines the scope and contributions of the paper. There is
a length limitation of 6 pages (including title, abstract, all figures,
tables, and references) for regular conference papers, and 4 pages for
short papers describing work in progress. Submissions must be in IEEE
2-column style. Self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further
review. Authors should submit their papers via JEMS:
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/manfi2013).

[[PROCEEDINGS]]
Papers accepted for ManFI 2013 will be included in the conference
proceedings, IEEE Xplore, IFIP database and EI Index. IFIP and IEEE
reserve the right to remove any paper from the IFIP database and IEEE
Xplore if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper
at the workshop.

[[WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS]]
- Dr. Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan
- Prof. Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium

[[STEERING COMMITTEE]]
- Prof. James Won-Ki Hong, Postech, Korea
- Dr. Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan

[[IMPORTANT DATES]]
- Paper submission: January 4, 2013
- Notification of acceptance: February 18, 2013
- Final version of papers due: March 1, 2013
- Workshop date: May 27, 2013