Call For Submissions

The 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2013) will be held 27-31 May 2013 at Ghent University, Belgium. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2013 will follow the 25 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 2013 will focus on the theme "Smart Management in a Virtualized World" presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future cloud, network and ICT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures. IM 2013 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel and dissertation digest. High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical Program Committee and stringent peer review of paper submissions. A special call for demonstrations will be organized to allow industry partners and researchers to demonstrate early products and prototypes.

Important Dates

Track Submission Notification Final version /
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Technical sessions August 16th, 2012 November 5th, 2012 January 15th, 2013
Application sessions August 27th, 2012 November 7th, 2012 January 15th,2013
Dissertation digest November 8th, 2012 December 20th, 2012 January 15th, 2013
Tutorials October 3rd, 2012 November 14th, 2012 March 26th, 2013
Panels October 3rd, 2012 November 7th, 2012
Workshops September 19th, 2012 October 7th, 2012
Demonstrations/exhibitions December 12th, 2012 January 31st, 2013 February 20th, 2013

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 & Operational Experience

Ad-hoc networks
Wireless & mobile networks
Personal Area Networks
IP/MPLS networks
Optical networks
Sensor networks
M2M Networks
Overlay networks
P2P networks
Broadband access networks
Future Internet
Home networks
Smart grids
Management Approaches

Centralized management
Distributed management
Autonomic and self-management
Policy-based management
Integrated management
Service Management

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

Protocols
Middleware
Web Service technologies for service creation and management
Mobile agents
Data, information, and semantic modeling
Functional Areas

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