LANOMS 2011 - LANOMS 2011 : The Seventh Latin-American Network Operations and Management Symposium

The Seventh Latin-American Network Operations and Management Symposium
(LANOMS´2011)
http://www.lanoms.org/2011/

Quito, Ecuador October 10-11, 2011 - Co-located with CLEI & LANC
Promoted by Potificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Technically Co-Sponsored by the Brazilian Computing Society
IFIP W.G. 6.6 (to be confirmed)

LANOMS is the major Latin-American event dedicated to discussing the
many issues related to the operations and management of computer
networks. LANOMS has been held in odd-numbered years
since 1999 and pursues the tradition of the NOMS and APNOMS events.The
7th edition will be held on October 10-11, 2011 in Quito, co-located
with CLEI and LANC. The technical program of LANOMS´2011 will include
sessions on the latest technical advances in all aspects of the
operation and management of networks, services, applications and
distributed systems in general.

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

Only original papers (not published or under review elsewhere) should
be submitted. Both regular papers (8-page limit) and short papers
(4-page limit) will be accepted. The format is IEEE 2-column for
conference proceedings. All submissions must be made electronically
through JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). There will be an award
for the best
paper of the conference. The conference proceedings, including regular
papers and practical experience reports, will be published by the
IEEE CS (to be confirmed).

Program Committee Chairs:
Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR, BR) Javier Baliosian (URU, UY)

General Chair:
Edmundo Madeira (UNICAMP, BR)

Publication Chair:
Bruno Schulze (LNCC, BR)

Publicity Chair:
Carlos Becker Westphal (UFSC, BR)

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: May 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 28th, 2011
Camera ready due: July 12, 2011