IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2014
IEEE/IFIP NETWORK OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM
KRAKOW, POLAND • 5-9 MAY 2014
Management in a Software Defined World
EXPERIENCE SESSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS
TOPICS OF INTEREST
NOMS 2014 will be next year's IEEE flagship conference in the area of management of networked systems and services. The symposium will include an Experience
Session program. Experience Sessions complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learnt in applying,
implementing, and deploying 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 experiences, and organizational considerations. Experience sessions are
particularly aimed at decision makers and experts from industry.
NOMS 2014's theme is "Management in a Software Defined World". NOMS 2014 will place particular emphasis on Software Defined Networking and related
technologies; submissions in those areas are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to the ones listed below. Please refer also to
the general Call for Papers.
• Management case studies and
best practices
• Issues and experiences with
practical deployments
• Software Defined Networks and
enabling technologies
• Open source SDN frameworks,
Open Daylight
• Experiences with OpenFlow
deployments
• Orchestration and SDN controllers
• Network Function Virtualization
implementations
• Data center automation
• Management of cloud
• Cloud service assurance
• Big Data analytics in management
• Management of virtualized
environments
• OSS/BSS development
• Virtualization of operation centers
and help desks
• Organizational aspects of IT
service management
• IT governance
• Service engineering and
operational challenges
• Management of emerging
networks and services
• Green management and managing
energy efficiency
• Smart buildings, industrial
automation and management
• Experiences with autonomic
networking and self-management
• Application of machine learning
and data mining to management
• Advances in standardization
• Management information models
• Event correlation, diagnostics,
fault, performance management
• Billing and accounting models
and service level management
• Business alignment of IT service
management
• Experiences with Call Home
frameworks
• Managed service provider issues
• Service delivery and service
assurance
• Experiences with process
engineering and frameworks
(ITIL, eTOM)
• Other topics in network and service
operations and management
IMPORTANT DATES
PAPER SUBMISSION:
9 SEPTEMBER 2013
NOTIFICATION:
31 OCTOBER 2013
CAMERA READY:
15 JANUARY 2014
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions should be made using the
JEMS conference submission system at
https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2014_expsession,
accessible also via the symposium website
(http://www.ieee-noms.org/).
Papers for the Experience Sessions
must be written in English and adhere to
one of the following two format options:
Option 1: Annotated Slides.
Papers should have a visual in the upper half of a
page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper
submissions must not exceed 15 annotated visuals
including title and references, in PDF only.
Option 2: IEEE 2-column format.
This is the same format as for Technical Sessions. Paper
submissions must not exceed 6 pages, in PDF only.
Detailed author instructions and examples
are available on the conference web site at
http://www.ieee-noms.org/.
Submitted papers may not be submitted
for publication or be under review at any
other conference or journal.
Email: noms2014expsession@gmail.com
COMMITTEE
Experience Sessions Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Alexander Clemm, Cisco, USA & Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
Experience Sessions Program Committee:
• Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco, USA
• Brian Hedstrom, CableLabs, USA
• David Breitgand, IBM Research, Israel
• Deepak Bansal, Microsoft, USA
• Edward Crabbe, Google, USA
• Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre, Germany
• Henning Sanneck, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
• Jerry Rolia, HP Laboratories, USA
• Joel Halpern, Ericsson, USA
• Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
• Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland
• Luca Deri, ntop.org, Italy
• Marcos Salvador, CPqD, Brazil
• Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland
• Masum Hasan, Cisco, USA
• Michael Behringer, Cisco, France
• Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
• Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
• Stefan Wallin, Tail-f Systems, Sweden
• Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya Labs Research, USA
• Sven van der Meer, Ericsson, Ireland
• Tom Nadeau, Juniper, USA
• Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA
• Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
• Martin Zach, Siemens AG, Austria, and
• Lucy Cherkasova, HP Laboratories, USA
For more information, please visit www.ieee-noms.org