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                      Call for Papers

                      WIN 2025
5th International Workshop on Intent-Based Networking
23 or 27 June 2025 – Budapest, Hungary
http://www.adda-association.org/win-2025/

In conjunction with IEEE NetSoft 2025, Budapest, Hungary
    https://netsoft2025.ieee-netsoft.org/

*** WIN 2025 ***
Intent-Based Networking (IBN) focuses on technology-agnostic, flexible,
and robust interactions between network infrastructure management,
operating systems, and their users. One of the main goals of IBN is the
lifecycle automation and deployment acceleration of communication services
and applications. As such, IBN articulates various mechanisms to recognize,
understand, augment, and refine intents based on services and operational
requests. Intent-Based Systems (IBS) continuously strive to fulfill and assure
services and network operations within the expected qualitative and
performance boundaries, thanks to reliable system feedback.
The concept of IBN appeared in the 2010s, focusing on automated policy
configuration. IBN now reaches out to versatile applications and services
deployed over heterogeneous digital communication infrastructures. A core
challenge of IBN solutions is the stretch between the generalization of the
application scope (potentially spanning horizontally and vertically
End-to-End through networks) and the need to run in a well-defined network
scope and associated knowledge domains while preserving enough flexibility.

The goal of this workshop is to gather research and experiments from
industry, academia, standards, and open-source work to get a sense of IBN
technology maturity and areas that require further exploration, development,
and validation. To this end, the workshop will cover IBN aspects of all
domains, such as applications, concepts, lifecycles, challenges,
architectures, modeling, instantiation, and robustness.

Authors are invited to submit novel contributions which are not under
review in any other workshop, conference or journal, to
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33482&track=129349.
Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not
exceed 6 pages (including references).
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE NetSoft 2025 proceedings and
indexed in the IEEEXplore library.

Topics of interest include and are not limited to:
* IBN concepts, architectures, and frameworks
* IBN enabling techniques: knowledge graphs, natural language understanding,
policy refinement, feedback control loops, smart telemetry, etc.
* IBN support by Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
* IBN applications and use cases, including scenarios combining digital
infrastructures and vertical industries
* IBN proof-of-concepts, experimentations, reports on field trials, and
real-world deployments
* IBN and Network Digital Twin (NDW)
* IBN implementations, tools, and user interface design
* IBN applications for 5G, Beyond 5G (B5G), and 6G networks
* IBN and cybersecurity such as intent-based security management
* IBN and generative technologies such as Large Language Models (LLM)
* IBN and Vehicular Networks (or Drone Networks)
* Intent modeling, representation, languages, and intent translation
techniques
* Intent collision resolution
* Intent and intent-related information models (policies and services)
* Intent recognition, recommendation, and abstraction techniques
* Intent assurance and assessment
* Availability, resiliency, performance, trust, and security considerations
in IBN
* Interfaces and API for intent-based systems
* Recent advances in IBN in standards and open-source

*** Important Dates ***
* Workshop paper submission deadline: March 14, 2025
* Workshop paper acceptance notification: April 11, 2025
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline: May 02, 2025
* Workshop date: June 23 or 27, 2025

*** Organizing Committee ***
* General Co-chairs
Molka Gharbaoui, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Eric Renault, ESIEE Paris, France

* TPC Co-chairs
Davide Borsatti, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marc Bruyère, Institute of Innovation Research Lab, Japan

* Publicity Co-chairs
Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Davide Berardi, Universitas Mercatorum, Italy
Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

* Publication Chair
Molka Gharbaoui, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

* Web Chair
Eric Renault, ESIEE Paris, France
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