The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2015) will be held 11-15 May 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2015 follows the 27 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. IM 2015 will offer five types of sessions: technical, experience, poster, panel and dissertation. High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical Program Committee and stringent peer review of paper submissions. A special call for demonstrations is organized to allow industry partners and researchers to demonstrate early products and prototypes.

Important Dates
Paper submission: September 15th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2014
Camera ready submission: February 1st, 2014

Topics of Interest:
Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. In addition, we invite submissions of proposals for demonstrations, exhibits, technical panels, tutorials, workshops, and application session papers.

Network Management:
Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Smart Cities, Smart Grids
Internet of Things (IoT)
Future Internet
Content Distribution Networks (P2P, CDN, ICN)
Virtual and Overlay Networks
Data Centers, Storage Area Networks
Cyber-Physical Systems
Wireless and Mobile Networks (Ad-Hoc, Mesh, Sensor, Vehicular)
Smart Devices and Home Networks
Broadband Access Networks
Cognitive Radio Networks
IP/MPLS Networks
Optical Networks
Heterogeneous Networks

Service Management:
Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
IT Service Management
Multimedia and Data Services
QoE-Centric Management
Service Discovery, Migration and Orchestration
Resource Provisioning and Management
Hosting and Virtualized Infrastructures
OTT Service Management
Management as a Service

Business Management:
Legal and Ethical Issues
Process Management

Functional Areas:
Deployment
Fault Management
Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting
Configuration Management
Accounting and Billing Management
Performance Management
Service Level Management
Security Management, IDS, IPS

Management Approaches:
Centralized management
Distributed management
Autonomic and self-management
Policy-based management
Federated Management
Pro-Active Management
Energy-Aware Management
Management Architectures

Management Enables & Technologies:
Network Programmability
Cloud Computing
Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Service Chaining
(Big) Data, Information and Semantic Modeling
Protocols and Languages
Message and Software Buses
Middleware, Grids, Mobile Agents
Social Networking
Human-Machine Interactions
Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS)

Methodologies for Network Operations and Management:
(Big) Data Analytics and Data Mining
Monitoring and Measurements
Control Theories
Optimization Theories
Economic Theories
Machine learning and Genetic Algorithms
Probabilistic, Stochastic Processes, and Queuing Theories
Design and Simulation
Experimental Studies
Visualization