DANMS 2008

3rd International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems

Co-located with Globecom 2008, New Orleans, USA

30 November, 2008


http://www.danms.org



The DANMS workshop series focuses on distributed and autonomous
principles for network management and applications of those principles
in network design. This year's workshop emphasizes Service Centric
Network Management considering the impact on the system, across the
whole information flow from service creation to deployment in the
network.



This workshop is looking for full papers describing original,
previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical
experiences with existing systems and industrial developments in the
field of autonomous network management. Papers with a deep focus on a
specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of
diverse disciplines are encouraged.



The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest:



Architecture and Systems Topics relating to Autonomic Networks

* Cross-layer system architecture design

* Middleware and O&M techniques for network management

* Resource modeling approaches for network management

* Peer-to-peer techniques for autonomic network management

* Scalability issues in network management

* Security aspects in network management



Autonomic Techniques

* Adaptive & context-based self-management in networks

* Policy (refinement techniques, policy models)

* Knowledge based techniques to support autonomics

* Data management for real-time dynamic service provisioning

* Real-time MIB engineering to provide cross-layer provisioning



Aspects of Service Management

* Use of semantics to enable service deployment and composition

* Automated service composition and orchestration

* Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers



Case Studies in Existing & Emerging Networks

* Lessons, shortcomings and real world experiences with existing
network management systems, protocols and architectures.

* Experiences with service deployment in challenged networks (ad-hoc,
pervasive, sensor etc.) and the implications on the network management
plane



Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2008

Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2008

Camera Ready Deadline: TBA

Workshop Date: 30 November, 2008



Workshop Chairs:

Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada

Rolf Stadler, KTH Sweden



TPC Chairs:

Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research

Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK



Organizing Team:

Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research

Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research



Technical Program Committee:

Nazim Agoulmine, Uni. of Evry Val d'Essonne, France

Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica I+D, Spain

Javier Baliosian, Uni. of the Republic, Uruguay

Arosha K Bandara, Open University, UK

Saleem Bhatti, Uni. of St Andrews, UK

Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ericsson Ireland Research

Monica Brockmeyer, Wayne State University, USA

Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland

Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Zoran Despotovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany

Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA

Simon Dobson, UCD, Ireland

Susanne Engberg, Ericsson Research, Sweden

Patrick Eugster, Purdue Uni., USA

Alex Galis, University College London, UK

Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Labs, UK

Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research

Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA

James Hong, POSTECH Korea

Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research

Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS Germany

Richard Mortier, Vipadia, UK

Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA

Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands

Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal

Francoise Sailhan, LIFC Uni. of Franche Comté, France

Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA

Maarten van Steen, Vrije Uni., Netherlands

Filip de Turck, Ghent University, Belgium

Carlos Westphall, Federal Uni. of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria

Xiaoyun Zhu, Hetlett Packard Labs, USA