The 17th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020) will be held on 20-24 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2020 will follow the 32 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 NOMS 2020 is Management in the Age of Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. It aims to capture recent results, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with management of Fixed and Mobile Networks and Services, Clouds, and Vertical Eco-Systems (e.g., smart cities and smart transportations, etc.) NOMS 2020 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:

Management of Smart Vertical Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era

Smart Cities, Smart Grid, Smart Homes, Smart Environment
Internet of Things (IoT)
5G networking
Social Networks
Cyber-Physical Systems including techniques supported with Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Physical vs. Digital Twins
Applications and case studies
Artificial Intelligence techniques for Network and Service Management

Artificial Neural Networks
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Big Data & Data Mining
Mobile Agents
AI vs. legacy optimization methods in management
Management of Softwarised Networks, SDN and NFV

Network virtualization
Network (data, control, management planes) programmability
Slicing in 5G and Beyond
Management & Orchestration (MANO)
Service Function Chaining
Protocols, languages and frameworks
Open source networking
Cloud native networking
Case studies and practical deployments
Management Functional Areas

FCAPS: Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security Management
Green operation & management
Billing & Accounting
Service Assurance
Service Fulfillment
Service Level Management
Network Management & Operational Experience

Ad-hoc networks
Automotive and vehicular networks
Broadband access networks
Cognitive radio networks
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
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
Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

Control theory
Markov Chains and management
Data collection and aggregation
Design and simulation
Economic/finance theories
Experimental approaches
Optimization theory
Probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory
Risk management
Software engineering methodologies Visualization
Management approaches for Quantum Networking
Management Approaches

Management architectures
Standard frameworks and systems
Integrated management
Autonomic and self-management
Best practices and management standards
Centralized management
Distributed management
Organizational aspects
Policy-based management
Process oriented management
IT service management (ITSM)
Process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, CobIT, RiskIT, ValIT)
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in English that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 8 pages (excluding references) for full paper submissions or not exceed 4 pages (excluding references) for poster/short paper submissions. All papers should be submitted through JEMS.

The authors of the best 15 technical papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a fast-track reviewed Wiley’s International Journal of Network Management (IJNM) or IEEE Communications Magazine series on Telecom Software, Network Virtualization, Software Defined Networks.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 30 August 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 8 November 2019
Camera Ready: 12 January 2020

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Imen Grida Ben Yahia, Orange Labs, France
Alex Galis, UCL, UK
Istvan Godor, Ericsson, Hungary
Contact Email: noms2020tpc@comsoc.org