IM 2011 - 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011 )

The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011) will be held on 23 ? 27 May 2011 at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. The IM series of conferences has been held in odd-numbered years since 1989 (taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS), and has established itself as the main venue for original research in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems.

Integrated management of networked systems and services is facing new challenges, stemming from difficult economic conditions and increasing environmental considerations. More than ever cost effective and energy efficient management strategies have become critical issues for all kinds of enterprises. The resulting demands for such management must be met in an environment of increasingly distributed and decentralized service provisioning and accelerated service lifecycles, often across organizational boundaries and over multi-vendor platforms. The theme of ‘Effective and Energy Efficient Management of Networks and Services' encapsulates the challenge faced by the community in moving to Next Generation Networks and Services Management solutions.

This symposium is once again sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The conference will feature: Technical Sessions; Invited and Keynote Speakers; Application sessions; Panels; Birds-of-a-feather sessions; Tutorials; Satellite Workshops and an Industrial experience track.

We invite authors to submit original contributions, written in English. Please note, that only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. In addition, papers that do not conform to the requested format, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review process. Details and links to templates will be available on the conference web site at http://www.ieee-im.org/.

Important Dates

Paper Submissions 01 September 2010
Notifications 07 Novermber 2010
Camera Ready Paper 16 January 2011
Topics of interest that will be given special attention include:

1) Management Technologies

Monitoring Techniques

Event correlation and root cause analysis

Integrated control and management

Performance and fault management

Configuration and accounting management

Resource inventory, planning, and allocation

Service management and Service-oriented architectures

Semantic Modeling for management

Biologically-inspired management systems and techniques

Quality-of-Service (QoS) management

Security management

Mobility management

Energy management

Cross-layers management
2) Management for Networks, Services and Systems, including

Management of next generation converged networks and services

Management of cloud computing

Management of VoIP

Managing virtual resources & services (VPNs, VLANs)

Management of web services, grids, grid services, grid applications, ASP server farms

Management of wireless networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, LTE, WLANs, PANs, BANs)

Management of outer-edge networks

Management of video & broadband cable networks, IPTV, video on demand

Management of content hosting & delivery networks
3) Advanced Approaches for Management

Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management

Self-* and autonomic aspects of management

Virtualization and its role in management

IT process management

Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management

Policy and role based management

Business impact analysis

Economic models for management

Programmable, active, and adaptive management

Resilience, dependability, and survivability

Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies

Legal and ethical issues

TPC Co-Chairs:

Nazim Agoulmine (University of Evry, France)
Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA)
General Co-Chairs:
Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Sam Samuel (Bell Labs, Ireland)