The 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012) will be held 16-20 April 2012 at The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2012 will follow the 24 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. NOMS 2012 will focus on the theme "Managing the Next Wave of Information and Communications Technologies," presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future network and ICT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures.

NOMS 2012 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel, and Dissertation Digest. Technical sessions will present high-quality papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions will include papers focusing on experiences in the IT and telecommunications industries, including but not limited to service providers, OSS vendors, and equipment manufacturers. The application session scope includes customer/user requirements, management system implementations, and business practices. Poster sessions will provide insights into work-in-progress and rapidly evolving hot topics. Panel sessions will focus on business implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists who are the technology and business leaders. Dissertation Digest Sessions will select and award the best Ph.D. work in the area of Network and Service management. High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical Program Committee and stringent peer review of paper submissions.



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 technical panels, tutorials, workshops, and application session papers.

Network Management & Operational Experience

Ad-hoc networks
Wireless & mobile networks
Personal Area Networks
IP/MPLS networks
LANs
Optical networks
Sensor networks
Overlay networks
P2P networks
Broadband access networks
Future Internet
Home networks
Smart grids
Service Management

Multimedia service management
Data service management
Hosting
Data center management
Grid & cloud computing
Virtualized infrastructure management
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Business Management

Legal and Ethical Issues
Process Management
Functional Areas

Fault management
Configuration management
Accounting management
Performance management
Security management
SLA management
Event management
Energy management
Management Approaches

Centralized management
Distributed management
Autonomic and self-management
Policy-based management
Integrated management
Technologies

Protocols
Middleware
Web Service technologies for service creation and management
Mobile agents
Data, information, and semantic modeling
Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

Control theory
Optimization theory
Economic theory
Machine learning
Probability, stochastic processes, and queuing theory
Design and simulation
Experimental approaches
Visualization

TECHNICAL SESSIONS IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration & submission: 22 August 2011
Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2011
Final Camera Ready papers: 5 December 2011

OTHER SUBMISSIONS

Application sessions: 22 August 2011
Workshop proposal: 1 September 2011
Tutorial proposals: 5 October 2011
Panel proposals: 12 October 2011
Dissertation Digest: 2 November 2011
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the NOMS 2012 web site. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Douglas N. Zuckerman, Telcordia, USA
Tom Moore, TropTel, USA

TPC CO-CHAIRS

Filip de Turck, Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France
Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA
Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Shingo Ata, Osaka City University, Japan
Javier Baliosian, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK
Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories, USA
Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Aidan Boran, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
David Breitgand, IBM - Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland, New Zeland
Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ritu Chadha, Telcordia, USA
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Mi-Jung Choi, Kangwon National University, Korea
Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
Yixin Diao, IBM Research, USA
Elias P. Duarte Jr., UFPR, Brazil
Tamar Eilam, IBM Research, USA
Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland
Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France
Joel Fleck, Hewlett Packard, USA
Luca Foschini, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy
Stéphane Frénot, Université de Lyon - INRIA, France
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel, Germany
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE & Université Paris-Est (LIGM lab)
Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco Systems, USA
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
David Hausheer, UC Berkeley and University of Zurich, USA
Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Hong-Taek Ju, Keimyung University, Korea
Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada
Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
Myung-Sup Kim, Korea University, Korea
Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University, Korea
Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Osaka University, Japan
Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University, USA
Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP, Brazil
J.P. Martin-Flatin, EPFL, Switzerland
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Michael Menth, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Jose-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Michele Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK
George Pavlou, University College London, UK
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
Pradeep Ray, UNSW, Australia
Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces - Munich, Germany
Aldri dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Jacques Sauvé, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware, USA
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK
José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil
Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden
Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Malgorzata Steinder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
John Strassner, POSTECH, Korea
Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK
Makoto Takano, NTT West, Japan
Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan
Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy
Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
Jorge López de Vergara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Christopher Ward, IBM, USA
Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jiahai Yang, Tsinghua University, China
Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria), Austria
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc., USA
Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil
For more information, please contact the TPC-Co-Chairs (noms2012.tpcchairs@gmail.com).