---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LANOMS 2005 - 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium Sheraton Hotel - Porto Alegre, Brazil August 29-31, 2005 http://www.lanoms.org/2005/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers in PDF format attached. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium - LANOMS 2005, to be held in Porto Alegre - Brazil, is the result of the great success of the previous LANOMS 1999 (held in Rio de Janeiro), LANOMS 2001 (held in Belo Horizonte), and LANOMS 2003 (held in Iguassu Falls), as well as the other successful events in the area of network management: NOMS and APNOMS. The LANOMS 2005 is promoted by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and by the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). The main goal of LANOMS 2005 is to create a forum more specific to the necessities of Latin American in the area of network management involving networking and telecommunications companies, academic institutions and equipment vendors. LANOMS is an event open to participants from all over the world who are interested in having, or already have, research or commercial liaisons in Latin America - one of the fastest growing regions in the world in networking. Topics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LANOMS 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work to both technical and application tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Management architectures and platforms - Distributed and cooperative management - Self management - Policy and role-based management - Security management - Configuration management - Adaptive and programmable management - Context and subscriber-aware networks, mobile computing - Management information models, ontologies - Web Services - Smart homes, Personal Area Networks - Multisensor and RFID-enabled networks - Ad hoc and self organizing networks - WLANs, metro Ethernet, optical networks - Overlay networks, virtual topologies - QoS management - IPv4/v6 networks and services - VoIP and video distribution management - Storage Area Networks, content hosting - Utility computing, virtualized resources - Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer management - Converged networks and services Important dates: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Deadline for receipt of papers: May 02, 2005 (hard deadline) - Notification of acceptance: June 06, 2005 - Final camera ready paper due: June 13, 2005 Paper format and submission instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific papers should not exceed the limit of 12 pages. Sample files and templates can be downloaded from the LANOMS 2005 Web site. Application papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half, following the current IM/NOMS format, and should not exceed 12 visuals. A PowerPoint template and a sample PDF file can be downloaded from the LANOMS Web site as well. All selected papers will be published in the LANOMS proceedings. Authors of scientific papers should submit a PDF file at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/lanoms2005. Authors of application papers should submit at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/lanoms2005_app. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected excellent scientific papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the Journal of Network and Systems Management – JNSM (Kluwer). Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: - Bruno Schulze National Laboratory on Scientific Computing, Brazil - José Neuman de Souza Federal University of Ceará, Brazil APPLICATION PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: - Iara Machado National Research Network, Brazil - Michael Stanton Fluminense Federal University, Brazil PUBLICITY CHAIR: - Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Steering Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. Federal University of Paraná, Brazil - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira State University of Caminas, Brazil - José Marcos Silva Nogueira Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Antônio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nazim Agoulmine Univ. of Evry, France - Rossana Andrade Federal University of Ceará, Brazil - Benjamín Barán Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay - Abdelmalek Benzekri Université Paul Sabatier, France - Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada - Tereza Carvalho University of São Paulo, Brazil - Javier Diaz University La Plata, Argentina - Yezid Donoso Universidad del Norte Barranquilla, Colombia - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. Federal University of Paraná, Brazil - Masayoshi Ejiri Fujitsu, Japan - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil - Germán Goldszmidt IBM, USA - Carlos de Castro Goulart Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - James Won-Ki Hong POSTECH, Korea - Ahmed Karmouch University of Ottawa, Canada - Lundy Lewis Verizon, USA - Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Hanan Lutfiyya University of Western Ontario, Canada - Iara Machado RNP, Brazil - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira State University of Campinas, Brazil - Thomas Magedanz IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany - Manu Malek Stevens Institute of Technology, USA - Edmundo Monteiro University of Coimbra, Portugal - José Marcos Silva Nogueira Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Jauvane de Oliveira LNCC, Brazil - Edward L. Pinnes Telcordia, USA - Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Bruno R. Schulze LNCC, Brazil - Paulo Simões University Coimbra, Portugal - José Neuman de Souza Federal University of Ceará, Brazil - Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Mehmet Ulema Manhattan College, USA - Florencio Utreras Cooperacion Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, Chile - Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil