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5th Latin American Network Operations and
Management Symposium

September 10-12, 2007

LNCC - Petrópolis, Brazil

http://www.lanoms.org/2007

Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE/IFIP/WG 6.9

The 5th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2007) will be held on September 10-12, 2007 at the National Scientific Computing Laboratory (LNCC) in Petrópolis, Brazil. LANOMS 2007 will offer the latest technical advances in all aspects of the operation and management of distributed infrastructures, including networks, application services and distributed systems in general. LANOMS has been held in odd-numbered years since 1999 and pursues the tradition of the NOMS and APNOMS events.

LANOMS 2007 is promoted by National Scientific Computing Laboratory (LNCC). It aims to be the primary forum in Latin America for the exchange of ideas and results among the research, standards, vendor and user communities in the field of operations and management. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Brazilian Society for Computing (SBC), the National Computer Networks laboratory (LARC), 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 management of networks and distributed systems continues to face major challenges, among which the most critical are reliability and availability, scale, security, the integration of heterogeneous technologies, and demonstrating alignment with the business. Combining all these aspects at one and the same time is still not resolved satisfactorily, although solutions are improving with time.

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.

Several types of sessions will be held at LANOMS 2007.

Technical sessions will be held for the presentation of full scientific papers discussing recent research results.
Poster sessions are directed for more informal interactions and presenting work in progress. Short papers can be submitted for consideration as poster presentations. Posters will be selected from these short papers and full papers.
Application sessions aim to complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learnt in conjunction with management technology. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technology, implementation examples of new management technology, organizational impact, and business cases. The intended audience especially includes decision makers and experts from industry.

Paper submissions will undergo a rigorous review process performed by the Technical Program Committee, which includes the most respected experts in the field. We encourage the submission of papers that present new research results or that present insightful results based on experience with the operation and management of networks, systems, applications and services.

Topics

Management Paradigms, Models, Theories and Architectures

• Integrated control and management
• Distributed, cooperative and scalable management
• Policy and role based management
• Proactive and reactive management
• Programmable, active, and adaptive management
• Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM)
• Management using Web Services
• Ontologies in management
• Resilience, dependability and survivability
• Component-based management
• Customer-controlled and managed networks
• Theories (control, optimization, economic, games, chaos, graph) for management

Enabling Management Technologies

• Autonomic Computing and Self-Management
• Grid, middleware and peer-to-peer technologies
• User interfaces and virtual reality in management
• Data warehousing, mining and statistical methods in management
• AI techniques (knowledge-based, intelligent agents, machine learning, neural networks)

Operation and Management Functions

• Security management
• Mobility management
• End-to-end measurements
• Network and systems monitoring
• Alarm correlation, filtering and fault management
• Customer care and workforce management
• Process engineering for operators' service and network management
• Performance management
• Configuration and accounting management
• Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products
• Content hosting and delivery
• Path Protection and Restoration
• Internet service pricing, bandwidth trading

IT Service Management

• Process Engineering and Process Frameworks (ITIL, eTOM)
• IT service delivery processes (Service Level Management, Capacity Management, Contingency Planning, Availability Management, IT Financial Management)
• IT service support processes (Configuration Management, Problem and Incident Management, Change Management, Service / Help Desk, Release Management)
• Workflow Management for IT Service Provisioning
• Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management
• Service discovery and service negotiation
• Risk Management and IT Governance Issues
• Business-Driven IT Management

Management of Emerging Networks and Services

• Converged networks and services
• Peer-to-peer and community networks
• Grids, grid services, and grid applications
• Ad hoc and self-configurable networks
• Multi-sensor and self-organizing networks
• Overlay networks, virtual topologies and VPN services
• Wireless broadband networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond)
• High speed access, Wireless Local (WLANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs)
• Optical networks (metropolitan, all optical, WDM, DWDM, optical IP)
• Video and broadband cable networks
• VoIP, VoD, FTTX networks, services, and protocols (IPv4, IPv6, H.323, SIP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, MGCP, and QoS)
• Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASP/MSP server farms
• Management of Web Services
• Content delivery networks
• Smart homes and networked haptics
• Satellite and interplanetary networks

Special topics of interest to Latin America

• Management experience of academic networks
• Management experience of metropolitan networks
• Brazilian Giga Project
• Experience with Planet Lab
• IPv4/v6 networks and services
• Experience with advanced networks (Internet2, Clara, Ampath, Géant)

Important Dates

• Paper registration and submission deadline: April 20, 2007 May 4, 2007
• Rebuttal period: June 1, 2007 to June 8, 2007 June 15, 2007 to June 22, 2007
• Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2007 June 29, 2007
• Final camera ready paper due: June 25, 2007 July 9, 2007

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF format through the LANOMS 2007 web site. Papers must be written in English. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Self-plagiarized papers and multiple submissions will be rejected without further review.

Full papers should not exceed the limit of 12 pages. Short papers should not exceed the limit of 4 pages. Format full and short papers using the IEEE 2-column style. Sample files and templates can be downloaded from the LANOMS 2007 Web site. Application papers consist of annotated slides and 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 in PDF only. 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. All papers appearing in the proceedings will be included in IEEExplore. Authors of scientific papers (full and short) should submit a PDF file at https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2007. Please select “Poster session” if you are submitting a short paper. Authors of application papers should submit at https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2007_app. Please prepare your submission to the application session using this template..

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 (Springer).

Organizing Committee

Steering Committee

Technical Program Committee