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 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the
Brazilian Computing Society, and 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 purses 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. Accepted papers will be published in
the IEEExplore digital library.
Topics
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 and 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
Management of next generation converged networks and services
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://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1352).
There will
be an award for the best paper of the conference.
***JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE*** Discussion
has ensued with Springer's Journal of Network and Systems Management
(JNSM) to consider a few best papers from LANOMS 2011 for possible
publication in JNSM. It should be noted that any such recommendations
from LANOMS 2011 does not guarantee automatic acceptance in JNSM. Such
submission must have additional substantive work as per JNSM's policy
and will need to go through the journal's regular peer-review process.
Program Committee Chairs:
Elias P. Duarte (UFPR, BR)
Javier Baliosian (URU, UY)
General Chair:
Edmundo Madeira (UNICAMP, BR)
Publication Chair:
Bruno Schulze (LNCC, BR)
Finance Chair:
Maurício F. Magalhães (UNICAMP, BR)
Publicity Chair:
Carlos Becker Westphal (UFSC, BR)
Important Dates
Paper submission: May 1st, 2011June 1st (EXTENDED)
Author notification: July 22nd, 2011
Camera ready due: August 12th, 2011
Submission Instructions
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://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1352).
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEExplore digital library.
Discussion
has ensued with Springer's Journal of Network and Systems Management
(JNSM) to consider a few best papers from LANOMS 2011 for possible
publication in JNSM. It should be noted that any such recommendations
from LANOMS 2011 does not guarantee automatic acceptance in JNSM. Such
submission must have additional substantive work as per JNSM's policy
and will need to go through the journal's regular peer-review process.