11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management

11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management



1 - 5 June, 2009, New York, New York, USA



"Making Management Scalable, Robust, Cost-Effective and Revenue-Generating"

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The Eleventh IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009) will be held on 1 - 5 June 2009 at Columbia University in New York, New York, USA. The IM series of conferences has been held in odd-numbered years since 1989 (taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS), and has established itself as the main venue for original research in the area of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems. IM 2009 will build on the successes of its predecessors and serve as the primary forum for technical exchange among the research, standards, vendor and user communities in the network management field.



The symposium is sponsored by 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).



Despite the ongoing research in the last two decades, and the great improvements in management tools and systems, integrated management of networked systems is still facing many challenges. With a continued increase in connectivity and the deployment of wireless technologies, there has been a dramatic growth in the size and complexity of networked systems at the same time that reliance upon them has increased. This dependence has highlighted the need for these systems to be reliable, secure and have predictable performance characteristics.

Management mechanisms are keys to achieving these goals, but they must not add significantly to complexity and cost or the problems will be compounded. In short we need to Make Management Scalable, Robust, and Cost-effective, and to make sure it helps generate the revenue to support it.



IM 2009 will be organized into technical and application sessions, panels, and tutorials. In addition, it will feature an industrial experience track to share Practical lessons learned by the user and vendor communities, posters, and birds-of-a-feather sessions. Paper submissions will undergo a stringent review process implemented by the Technical Program Committee, which includes the most respected experts in the field. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on experience with integrated management of networks, systems, applications and services.



Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF format through the IM 2009 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 are required for review. If accepted, the maximum length of each paper will be 10 printed pages including figures in IEEE 2-column style. For samples and templates, please refer to the IM 2009 author instructions.



IM 2009 covers all areas of management, operations and control of networks, networking services, networked applications, and distributed systems.

Topics of interest that will be given special attention include:



Management Paradigms, Theories and Models

* Policy and role based management

* Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management

* Biologically inspired management systems and techniques

* Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies Role of Virtualization in network and systems management

* Managing virtual resources and services

* Information modeling in virtual environments Architectures, methods and Enabling Technologies

* Management standards and enabling technologies

* Operations and management functions

* Management of emerging networks and services Service Engineering and Operational Challenges

* Service design and quality assurance

* Service discovery and negotiation

* QoS management

Organizational Aspects of IT Service Management

* Process engineering and frameworks

* Workflow management

* Business alignment of IT service management Autonomic Computing and Self-Management

* Self-repairing distributed systems

* Self-adaptive e-business services

* Self-organizing service deployment



Important Dates

* Abstract Registration: August 1, 2008

* Submission: August 8, 2008

* Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2008

* Camera ready Copy: January 15, 2009



NOTE: 1. All submission times 24:00 (midnight) EST

2. No extensions will be granted for paper submissions.

Please plan accordingly



For Further Information Web: http://www.ieee-im.org/