CNSM 2012 - 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management

The International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) has become a premier venue for the presentation of novel results and experience reports in all aspects of management of networks, pervasive systems, enterprise and could computing environments. CNSM 2012 will take place at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference is organized around a single track of paper presentations where fundamental research results are discussed.
This core track is accompanied by series of workshops, tutorials and poster sessions where more focus discussions and progress reports are presented. We invite academic, government and industry researchers to submit papers to be presented in the core track of the conference. All areas of Network and Service management are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
General Management Issues
? Monitoring, correlation and diagnosis
? Performance management, fault management and reconfiguration
? Resource allocation and optimization
? IT services, business impact analysis and business process management
? Configuration and accounting
? Security, trust and privacy
? Power management and efficiency
? QoS management
Network Management
? IP operations and management
? Broadband access networks
? Overlay and virtual networks
? Wireless and mobile networks
? Hybrid and next-generation networks
? Data Center Networks
Management and adaptation in:
? Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Cities
? Sensor networks, opportunistic and mobile ad-hoc networks
? Pervasive systems including Body Area Networks, Vehicular and Home Networks
? Cloud computing and Grid Environments
? Enterprise Systems and Federations
? SOA and Web services
? Multimedia and data services
Management Techniques and New Paradigms
? Self-Management and adaptation
? Economic models for management
? Policy-based and declarative models of management
? Virtualization
? Control theory and optimization
? Content centric networking
? Stochastic models and machine learning in management
Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers, not published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can be of two types: full or short papers. Submissions will be limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers (excluding references), in IEEE 2-column style.
Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review.
Important Dates
Paper Registration 28 March 2012
Paper Submission 4 April 2012
Acceptance Notification 6 July 2012
Camera Ready Papers 3 August 2012