INTEGRATED
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
The
Seventh IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network
Management (IM 2001) will be held on 14-18 May 2001 in Seattle,
Washington, USA. The symposium is sponsored by the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on
Network Management for Communication Networks, and by the IEEE Communications
Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management
(CNOM). IM (tm) and the Network Operations and Management Symposia
(NOMS) are the premier technical conferences in the area of network
and systems management, operations and control.
IM
2001 will build upon the successes of IM and NOMS each year since
1988, in serving as the primary forum for technical exchange for
the research, standards, development, systems integrator, vendor
and user communities in the area of network and distributed systems
management, operations and control.
At
the dawn of the new millennium, the ubiquitous explosion of the
Internet and the fast proliferation of networked devices and business
applications create a unique challenge for the network management
community. Innovative solutions are required for managing the sheer
numbers of devices and the complexity of applications. Further,
new ways of strategic thinking must be incorporated in future management
products and services to ensure a smooth transition to the new networked
society. Management in this new information era will need to support
the integration of data and telecommunications networks, from narrowband
to broadband, terrestrial to satellite, fixed to mobile and uni-media
to multi-media. The IM 2001 conference provides a forum for discussion
of new paradigms and architectures (or new spins on old ones) that
can deal with the many management issues related to these next-generation
networks.
This
symposium, along with NOMS, is the premier annual event where the
latest research and industrial solutions for integrated management
of networks and distributed systems are presented in technical sessions,
tutorials, and vendor exhibits. IM 2001 introduces a new track of
industrial experience to permit the sharing of the lessons learnt
from case studies by the user or vendor community.
The
IM 2001 symposium will provide the highest quality professional
event of the year through active participation on the Program Committee
of many of the most respected people in the fields of network and
distributed systems management, and a stringent review process.
TECHNICAL
PROGRAM
Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not
under review in any other conference or journal, as well as proposals
for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather
sessions (informal discussion groups) in the following topic areas.
Other topics relevant to management are also welcome and we particularly
encourage industrial papers on case studies and experiences which
emphasise the lessons learnt.
- Management
Platforms, Standards and Protocols
- Emerging
Management Technologies and Frameworks (Web, XML, DEN, etc.)
- Active
and Programmable Network Management
- Management
of Virtual Private Networks
- Management
of Optical Networks
- Management
of CATV Networks
- Management
of Mobile Networks and Services
- Management
of Voice Networks and Services
- Management
of IP Networks and Services
- Management
of Ad-Hoc Networks
- Management
of Transaction-Oriented Services and Electronic Commerce
- Management
Aspects of Service Pricing, Accounting and Billing
- Management
of Service Level Agreements and Bandwidth Brokerage
- Data
Warehousing, Mining and Statistical Methods in Management
- Mobile
and Intelligent Agents in Management
- Interoperability
and Cooperative Control
- Quality
of Service Management
- Network
and Systems Monitoring
- Fault
and Performance Management
- Security
Management
- Information
Modeling
- Policy-Driven
Management
- Applications,
Case Studies and Experiences
- User
Interfaces and Virtual Reality in Management
- Open-Source
Management Software
PANEL
GUIDELINES
Link
to http://www.comet.columbia.edu/~stadler/im01/panels.html.
SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS
ELECTRONIC
SUBMISSION IS MANDATORY.
To
submit your paper, please proceed to the on-line submission Web
site http://im2001.ee.surrey.ac.uk/
Authors
experiencing problems with the on-line submission form, please e-mail
to: im01-submissions-enquiries@eim.surrey.ac.uk
All
paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three
international
experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high
quality. The authors of accepted papers will receive the suggested
modifications for inclusion in the widely distributed, hard-bound
Symposium Proceedings published by IEEE. The final camera-ready
copy should be no longer than 14 single-spaced pages. Final papers
arriving too late will be removed from the program. The authors
of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented
at the symposium.
For
ALL submissions the cover page of the paper should be submitted
using the available on-line form if the paper is submitted via the
web, or in plain text format (ASCII) if the paper is submitted by
e-mail.
Program
Co-Chair: (Americas, Australia)
Nikos
Anerousis
Voicemate.com,
Inc.
215
West 95th St., Ste. 10M
New
York, NY 10025, USA
Email:
nikos@voicemate.com
Phone:
+1-212-316-4764
Fax:
+1-419-828-9898
OR
Program
Co-Chair: (Europe, Asia, Africa)
George
Pavlou
Center
for Communication Systems Research
Department
of Electronic Engineering
University
of Surrey
Guildford,
GU2 5XH, UK
E-mail:
G.Pavlou@eim.surrey.ac.uk
Web:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/showstaff?G.Pavlou
Phone:
+44 1483 879480
Fax:
+44 1483 876011
Deadline
for Receipt of Papers: |
15
September 2000 |
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals
for
Tutorials, Panels and Posters: |
15
October 2000 |
Deadlines
for Receipt of Proposals
for
Birds-of-a-Feather |
15
January 2001 |
Notification
of Acceptance Mailed: |
15
December 2000 |
Final
Camera Ready Papers Due: |
1
February 2001 |
In
addition to the regular presentation sessions, the Symposium will
also offer poster sessions for more informal interaction and presenting
work in progress. Selections for both full presentations and poster
sessions will be made from the submissions to the Symposium, although
extended abstracts can be submitted for consideration as poster
presentations only.
These
should be submitted to the
Poster
Chair:
Yvonne
Hildebrand
Email:
yhildebrand@coppermountain.com
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals 15 October 2000
The
symposium includes tutorials on the days before and after the technical
program.
A
proposal to present a tutorial should contain the following information:
Tutorial
Title, Names of Presenter(s), biography, track record |
Summary
of the contents: approximately 1-2 pages i.e.
500-1000
words |
Brief
biography of the presenter(s): approximately half page |
If
the tutorial or an earlier version of it has been given before please
indicate the events and dates.
Information
on suggested topic areas and guidelines for submitting proposals
can be found at www.comsoc.org/confs/im/2001/technical.html.
Proposals
should be submitted to the
Tutorial
Chair:
Metin
Feridun
Email:
fer@zurich.ibm.com
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals: 15 October 2000
Proposals
for Panel Sessions should be submitted to the
Panels
Chair:
Rolf
Stadler
Email:
stadler@tik.ee.ethz.ch
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals 15 October 2000
Proposals
for Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (informal discussion groups) and
"work in progress" demonstrations should be submitted to the
Special
Events Chair:
Raouf
Boutaba
Email:
rboutaba@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals 15 January 2001
Since
the symposium will pay special attention to open-source management
software, authors of such software are invited to submit papers
in which they describe their package. These papers should be specially
submitted to the Open Source Chair and will go through a tailored
review process. High quality papers will be published in the proceedings
and the papers will be presented in a technical session. Authors
of open-source management software not submitting a paper or not
passing successfully the review process may also participate in
the open source corner; proposals to participate should be submitted
to the Open Source Chair:
Aiko
Pras
Email:
pras@ctit.utwente.nl
Deadline
for Receipt of Proposals: 15 October 2000
VENDOR
PROGRAM
The
Symposium offers vendors the opportunity to demonstrate their network
and systems management products to leaders and innovators from around
the world. Various levels of participation are available. As a Symposia
Patron, you can present your products and services in our vendor
showcase. Symposia Patrons will also have an opportunity to make
a product-related presentation on recent technical advancements,
product enhancements, or corporate directions. The vendor showcase
will be open during the three days of the symposium, in parallel
with other sessions. For IM '01 we are adding a lower cost vendor
participation level designed for smaller companies with innovative
technologies. Cost will be saved through time- shared demonstration
facilities and displays.
Vendors
interested in becoming Symposium Sponsors or participating in the
showcase should contact the
Vendor
Chair:
Varoozh
Harikian,
IBM
International Education Centre, Belgium
Email:
varoozh_harikian@be.ibm.com
Phone:
+32 2 655 5766
Fax:
+32 2 655 5562
STIPENDS
A
limited number of stipends will be available to those unable to
obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose papers are
accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged
to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should
be addressed to the Program Co-Chair responsible for the requestor's
region. Please also note that a limited number of IFIP and IEEE
Student Travel Grants may be available for student authors who will
be presenting papers.
ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
General
Chair:
Wolfgang
Zimmer
GMD-FIRST
Kekulestr.
7
D-12489
Berlin, Germany
Email:
zimmer@first.gmd.de
Phone:
+49 30 6392 1903
Fax:
+49 30 6392 1805
Technical
Program Co-Chairs:
Nikos
Anerousis, Voicemate, USA
George
Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK
Vendor
Program Chair:
Varoozh
Harikian,
IBM
International Education Centre, Belgium
Vendor
Program C0-Chair
and Exhibit Manager:
Jeff
Wheeler,
PFN,
USA
Tutorial
Program Chair:
Metin
Feridun,
IBM
Research, Switzerland
Panels
Chair:
Rolf
Stadler,
Columbia
University, USA
Special
Events Chair:
Raouf
Boutaba,
University
of Waterloo, Canada
Poster
Chair:
Yvonne
Hildebrand,
Copper
Mountain Networks, USA
Open
Source Chair:
Aiko
Pras,
University
of Twente, Netherlands
Finance
Chair:
Adarshpal
Sethi,
University
of Delaware, USA
Publicity
Chair:
Emil
Lupu,
Imperial
College, UK
Local
Arrangements Chair:
Andrea
Westerinen,
Management
Objects Consulting, USA
IEEE/ComSoc
Coordinators:
Tom
Stevenson and Gayle Weisman,
IEEE
Communications Society, USA
Steering
Committee:
Branislav
Meandzija,
Motorola,
USA
Wolfgang
Zimmer,
GMD-FIRST,
Germany
Doug
Zuckerman,
Telcordia
Technologies, USA
ADVISORY
BOARD:
Branislav
Meandzija, Motorola, USA (Chair)
Salah
Aidarous, NEC, USA
Seraphin
Calo, IBM, USA
Masayoshi
Ejiri, Fujitsu, Japan
Shri
Goyal, GTE, USA
Heinz-Gerd
Hegering, University of Munich, Germany
Kenneth
Lutz, Telcordia Technologies, USA
J.
Scott Marcus, Genuity, USA
Jong-Tae
Park, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Veli
Sahin, Marconi Communications, USA
Roberto
Saracco, CSELT, Italy
Morris
Sloman, Imperial College, UK
Bert
Wijnen, Lucent Technologies
Makoto
Yoshida, NTT-AT, Japan
Wolfgang
Zimmer, GMD-FIRST, Germany
Doug
Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA
PROGRAM
COMMITTEE:
Enrico
Bagnasco, CSELT, Italy
Joseph Betser, Aerospace Corporation, USA
Jit
Biswas, ISS, Singapore
Alexander
Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
Fawzi
Daoud, University of Toronto, Canada
William
Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Gabi
Dreo-Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany
Olivier
Festor, INRIA, France
Kurt Geihs, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Roch
Glitho, Ericsson, Canada
German Goldszmidt, IBM, T.J.
Watson Research Center, USA
Sigmund
Handelman, IBM, T.J.
Watson Research Center, USA
Masum
Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA
Joseph
Hellerstein, IBM, USA
James
Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Gabriel
Jakobson, GTE Labs,USA
Alan
Johnston, Lucent, USA
Gautam
Kar, IBM, USA
Alexander
Keller, IBM, USA
Wolfgang
Kleinoeder, IBM, Switzerland
Graham
Knight, University College London, UK
Lundy
Lewis, Aprisma Management Technologies, USA
Antonio
Liotta, University of Surrey, UK
Manu
Malek, Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Ian
Marshall, British Telecom, UK
Jean-Philippe
Martin-Flatin, EPFL, Switzerland
Subrata
Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA
Deep
Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Christian
Rad, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Raju
Rajan, AT&T, USA
Pradeep
Ray, University of New South Wales, Australia
Danny
Raz, Bell Laboratories, USA
Juergen
Schoenwaelder, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Burkhard
Stiller, ETHZ, Switzerland
John
Strassner, Cisco Systems, USA
Simon
Towers, Microsoft, USA
Vincent
Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Robert Weihmayer, GTE, USA
Jonathan
Weinstock, Motorola, USA
Carlos
Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil
Felix
Wu, NC State University, USA
Note
that the members of the Organising Committee and the Advisory Board
are also implicit members of the Program Committee.
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