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TridentCom 2010 - Call for Participation

TridentCom 2010 will provide a forum to explore existing and planned testbed concepts, infrastructures, and tools to address the research and business challenges of ICT convergence.

TridentCom 2010 is devoted to "Testbeds and Experimental Facilities for the Future Internet". This three-day event features 4 keynotes about the German G-Lab, the European FIRE initiative, the US GENI program and the Japanese New Generation Network project framework, 5 tutorials, and 41 technical papers from 20 countries presented in 11 technical sessions.

Session topics include:
* Federated and large scale testbeds
* Future Internet testbeds
* Future wireless testbeds
* Federated and large scale testbeds
* Monitoring in large scale testbeds

In addition, posters from the German G-Lab projects, European FIRE projects and other running projects will give practical insights about ongoing Future Internet research. A panel comprising major industry and academic players will discuss the upcoming European Future Internet Private Public Partnership.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to get insights on Future Internet testbeds by the world's leading ICT testbed experts.

Further information about the detailed conference program as well as the online registration is now available on the TridentCom website at http://www.tridentcom.org

Early Bird Registration Deadline will be Sunday, 18 April, 2010!!

We hope to see you in the vibrant city of Berlin in May,

I-SPAN'09 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009)
http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/

1. Keynote speakers
2. Special issues
3. Publication
4. Workshops
5. Important dates

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Keynote Speakers:
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H. J. Siegel, Fellow of IEEE and ACM, Colorado State University, USA
Sataj Sahni, Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, University of Florida, USA
Wen -Tsue Chen, Fellow of IEEE and CSMT, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

More information: http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/speakers.html

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Special issues
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Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of some international journals.
The following Journals are confirmed:

-Journal of Information and Science Engineering (JISE) (SCI)
-International Journal of Ad-Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI)
-Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) (SCI)
-Telecommunication Systems (TS) (SCI) CFP
-Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN) (EI)

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Publication
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ISPAN'09 Proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS.
CPS produced content will be submitted for indexing
through IET INSPEC, and EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI,
as well as other indexing services.

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Workshops
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Five Workshops will be held in conjunction with ISPAN'09.

VCNA 2009 (Vehicular Communications, Networks and Applications)- http://want.cs.tku.edu.tw/VCNA2009/
GridCAT 2009 (Grid Computing, Applications and Technologies)- http://www.csie.thu.edu.tw/gridcat2009
WISH 2009 (Intelligent systems and Smart Home)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/WISH2009.html
GPUTA 2009 (GPU Technologies and Applications)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/GPUTA2009.html
IASM 2009 (Information Assurance and Security Management)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/IASM2009.html

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Important Dates
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Main conference:
Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009

Workshops
Manuscript Due: July 15, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009

The 5th International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia

Networking and comPuting

http://research.cs.queensu.ca/wmunep/

held in conjunction with

The 12th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and

Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'09)

26-30 October, 2009, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

|| Scope ||

The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and comPuting (WMuNeP) will be a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM´09), in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

The demand for wireless multimedia communications thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve multimedia applications and services, and their associated protocols for emerging networks is at a critical point given the proliferation and integration of wireless systems to intelligent and broadband networks, mobility of people, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in mobile devices. This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects.

|| Topics ||

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Wireless multimedia network management

* Wireless multimedia traffic modeling

* Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia

* Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution

* Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems

* Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services

* Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks

* Protocols for wireless multimedia networks

* QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks

* Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks

* End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications

* Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks

* Distributed wireless multimedia services

* Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools

* Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications

* Security in wireless multimedia networks

* Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking

* Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks

* E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks

* Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks

* Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks

* Analytical modeling of wireless multimedia networks

* Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks

* Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks

* Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems

* Wireless multimedia sensor networks

|| Important Dates ||

- Paper Submission June 15, 2009

- Author Notification July 15, 2009

- Camera-ready Paper August 1, 2009

|| Submission Guideliness ||

High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference.

Paper length should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a fee.Short papers might be included in the technical program to complete it and foster discussion and idea exchange. For all, at least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference to present its contribution.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system. The complete list of authors' names must be inserted when registering the paper on the EasyChair system. In order to access the EasyChair system you need to register first. Authors should check if they already have an account on the EasyChair system; otherwise, they must create one before submitting the paper.

Detailed submission instructions can be found on the workshop's website, http://research.cs.queensu.ca/wmunep/

|| General Chair ||

Regina B. Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil

|| Workshop Co-Chairs ||

Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's University, Canada

Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE/IFIP/WG 6.6 (pending)

The 6th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium (LANOMS 2009) will be held on October 19th-21st, 2008 at the Conrad Resort & Casino in Punta del Este, Uruguay. LANOMS 2009 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 2009 is promoted by the University of the Republic of Uruguay (UdelaR). 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 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems , and by the IEEE Communications Society (pending).

Several types of sessions will be held at LANOMS 2009.

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.

Travel Grants:
Thanks to the supporting organizations, LANOMS 2009 has a travel grants program. Authors of outstanding papers can apply. Please contact Travel Grants Chair Martin Giachino at giachino@fing.edu.uy.

Paper submissions:
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.The LANOMS 2009 invites authors from all over the world to submit original and unpublished work to both technical and application tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

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
* IT service support processes
* 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

And special topics of interest to Latin America such as:

* Management experience of academic networks
* Management experience of metropolitan networks
* Management of community wireless networks
* Brazilian Giga Project
* EELA-2 Project
* OLPC deployment, such as CEIBAL and UCA projects
* Experience with Planet Lab
* IPv4/v6 networks and services
* Experience with advanced networks (Clara, Internet2, Ampath, Géant)

Important Dates
* Paper registration and submission deadline: May 31, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2009
* Final camera ready paper due: July 12, 2009

Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF format through the LANOMS 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 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 2009 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/lanoms2009. Please select “Poster session” if you are submitting a short paper. Authors of application papers should submit at https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2009_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.

Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be submitted for fast-track publication in Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier)

15 a 16 de Outubro de 2009 (Quinta a Sexta-feira)
Instituto Superior Técnico, campus do TagusPark
Porto Salvo, Oeiras
http://crc2009.inesc-id.pt/

INFORMAÇÃO GERAL
A Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2009) é a 9º edição de uma série de sucesso iniciada em 1998 em Coimbra. Nos anos seguintes a conferência teve lugar de Norte a Sul do país, passando por Évora, Viseu, Covilhã, Faro, Bragança, Leiria e Portalegre, onde decorreu a
última edição em 2005. De âmbito nacional, a CRC tem sido um veículo preferencial para a divulgação em lingua portuguesa de trabalhos na área das redes de computadores, permitindo um partilhar de experiências e a descoberta de interesses comuns entre uma comunidade nacional que muitas vezes apenas se encontra em conferências no estrangeiro. Após um
interregno de alguns anos, a edição de 2009 da CRC vem recupera esta tradição.

Organizada pelo Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID) e pelo Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a CRC 2009 terá lugar no campus do IST no Tagus Park, Porto Salvo, Oeiras.

Fórum de partilha de experiências no desenvolvimento e utilizaçãodas redes de comunicação entre a academia e a industria nacional, a CRC 2009 proporciona ainda uma excelente oportunidade para a divulgação de trabalhos de mestrado no âmbito do Processo de Bolonha.


TÓPICOS DE INTERESSE
Os tópicos de interesse incluem mas não estão limitados a:

*Aplicações e serviços
Qualidade de serviço, protocolos e aplicações multimédia, IPTV, arquitecturas e protocolos web, redes overlay, peer-to-peer, gestão de rede, aplicações e serviços baseados em contexto, serviços de localização, distribuição de conteúdos, avaliação de desempenho em redes protótipo, serviços Web, descoberta de serviços e dispositivos, redes de domótica, comércio electrónico.
*Redes móveis e sem fios
Redes Ad hoc, redes de sensores, redes pessoais, nano-networks, redes mesh, redes veiculares, modelação e avaliação de desempenho, acesso de banda larga sem fios, gestão de localização, mobilidade, modelos de mobilidade, arquitecturas cross-layer, protocolos para redes sem fios,
redes auto-organizáveis, encaminhamento e escalonamento, sincronização, tolerância a falhas e recuperação, gestão de energia e de potência.
*Internet da próxima geração
Arquitecturas all-IP, redes IP de próxima geração, redes ópticas, RF-IDs, redes de acesso de banda larga, redes virtuais, redes activas, desenho e optimização de redes, modelação e simulação de redes, descoberta e caracterização de topologia, medidas e análise de tráfego,
controlo de congestão, alocação de recursos e controlo de admissão, engenharia de tráfego, encaminhamento, escalonamento, normalização e políticas de gestão de telecomunicações, disponibilidade e robustez.
*Segurança e privacidade
Autenticação, autorização, privacidade, anonimato, confiança, modelos de segurança, infraestruturas, arquitecturas, protocolos, políticas, gestão de chaves, ataques e contra-medidas.

INFORMAÇÃO AOS AUTORES
São aceites comunicações de trabalhos originais, que não foram publicados, aceites para publicação ou se encontrem em processo de revisão noutras conferências. Os artigos podem ser escritos em língua portuguesa ou inglesa, não podendo exceder as 6 páginas no total.
Apenas serão considerados artigos em formato PDF, devendo ser seguidas as instruções de formatação a duas colunas do IEEE, disponíveisem http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.


DATAS IMPORTANTES
Data de submissão: até 3 de Julho de 2009
Notificação aos autores: 15 Setembro de 2009
Versões finais e registo: até 25 de Setembro de 2009
Data de realização: 15-16 de Outubro de 2009

Political and military events, coupled with the accelerating frequency of cyber attacks on network/IT systems and technical revelations of management protocol insecurities, underscore the substantial risks associated with network, systems and applications management. Through
management systems, rogue elements can perpetrate targeted as well as system-wide fraud, theft of services, and disruption of capabilities and management data. Worse yet, due to the extended, pervasive reach of management systems, rogues can get a stranglehold on the IT and networking resources of an enterprise, entire industry sectors, even national critical infrastructures or governments.

Consequently, interest in the security aspects of management systems has sky rocketed. Security is an essential feature, not an after-thought, of an information enterprise. The commercial sector is pursuing double-digit growth rates for IT and network security spending. Corporations embracing e-business strategies that involve integration of systems and resources
with business partners want assurances that their internal resources will not be compromised by vulnerable management systems, internal or external.
Corporations and governments remain at risk for cyber attack on mission-critical management components. Legislation is making security an R&D priority.

This special issue of the Journal of Network and Systems Management in collaboration with IEEE CNOM (Committee on Network Operation and Management) and CISTC (Communications and Information Security) Technical Committees will consider topics associated with both the management of security in telecommunications, network, and systems environments, and the security for management systems in such environments. Submissions may span a broad range of topics, e.g.,:

- Security and management in wireless, multicast, multi-media and/or converged environments
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP); continuity issues for security and management in CIP
- Threats, vulnerabilities and requirements for security management and management system security
- Policies and SLAs for managed security and security for management systems
- Security Policy Management
- Attack management systems and management systems as attack platforms
- Scalability, efficiency and reliability of secure management and security management solutions
- End-to-end secure management and security management across distributed domains
- High assurance and trustworthy management
- The Common Criteria in standardizing security characteristics of management systems
- Managed security service provisioning and managed security service providers
- Security management best practices
- Testing and Evaluating security management and management system security solutions
- Open Source solutions for security management and management system security
- Detection, analysis and elimination of exposures and attacks in management systems
- Legal, insurance and Board Room liabilities, linked liabilities and product liabilities
- Laws and policies on management systems, operations, administration and maintenance
- Integration of security and management with business goals/strategies
- Case studies and experiences of secure management and security management systems

Instructions to Contributors:
Authors are invited to prepare their manuscripts in single-column, double-spaced format, and submit at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jons/. Authors must register first – an easy initial step. Acceptable file formats are given on the site.

Schedule:
Manuscript due: September 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2009
Final manuscript due: February 28, 2010
Publication date: September 2010

Guest Editors:
Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Department of Informatics and Statistics Brazil
Email: westphal at inf.ufsc.br

will be held in Sydney, Australia from Dec 16-18th. The papers submission deadline is June 12, 2009. Pl see the web site (www.healthcom2009.org<http://www.healthcom2009.org/>) for more details.

The objective of the International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (Healthcom2009) is to bring together interested parties around the world in the health care field from academia, research, government and industry to exchange ideas, report learning, and discuss innovation and emerging solutions addressing challenges in e-Health. Participants include clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare solutions vendors, and consultants. Healthcom2009 is also an important forum for e-Health topics in world bodies such as ITU, WHO and APEC, particularly Ubiquitous Healthcare Initiative for Ageing Societies. In addition to the technical papers to be selected by the Technical Program Committee, the program will include keynote speakers from different parts of the world on some of the burning topics in eHealth:

* eHealth for Ageing
* eHealth for Pandemics and Biosecurity
* eHealth for Developing Countries
* Global Developments in m-Health
* Intelligent Knowledge Management for Healthcare

The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed. As in the previous years, best papers from Healthcom2009 will be published in major international refereed journals such as ISI-listed Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, and Journal of e-Health Technology and Application.

Healthcom2009 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communication Society, IEEE NSW Section, IFMBE and AIMBE.


A/Prof Pradeep Ray

Director, Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare research Centre (APuHC),

School of Information Systems, Technology and Management,

Australian School of Business (ASB)

University of New South Wales,

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Prof. Nicolas D. Georganas, Distinguished University Professor of the University of Ottawa, Canada, Chair of Excellence of the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
* Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt - DE

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ACCEPTANCE RATE

The program committee accepted 16 full-papers (an acceptance rate of 25%) and 12 short-papers from several countries.

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PROGRAMME

For all details of the two-days programme visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/prog.html

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SPONSORS

CONTENT Network of Excellence in Content Distribution Network Research
ACM
IEEE Portugal Section
University of Coimbra
PEERFACTSIM.KOM
BCS
IET

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SCOPE

In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the future Internet. The management of content distribution services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. The efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE), and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. One major challenge in this context is the ever growing complexity of communication management and network maintenance in this context. Thus, solutions are required in which services, management and administration entities interact and behave autonomously with the overall goal of creating Autonomic Content Networks.

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TOPICS

The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking (FMNŽ09) workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, content networking, and autonomous communication. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Autonomous management in next generation content networks
* Content delivery networks and autonomic content networks
* Audio-visual systems
* Novel protocols for multimedia services supporting autonomous network operations
* Grid networking for multimedia services
* Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks
* Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks and autonomic network infrastructures
* Quality of service management in content networks and emerging autonomous content networks
* Quality of experience management in content networks and emerging autonomous content networks
* Management of service oriented architectures
* Seamless mobility of multimedia services in emerging autonomous content networks
* Novel multimedia architectures/platforms
* Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management
* IP multimedia system operations and management
* Resource reservation for multimedia services
* Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks, and emerging autonomous content networks
* Context-aware content distribution

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REGISTRATION

Register here: http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/registration.html

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GENERAL CHAIR

Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ marilia@dei.uc.pt

GENERAL CO-CHAIR

Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal @ ecoelho@dei.uc.pt

TPC CHAIRS

Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK @ a.mauthe@lancaster.ac.uk
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA @ szeadally@udc.edu

For all members visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/committees.html

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland @ leszczuk@agh.edu.pl
Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jo Yew THAM, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

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RELATED NEWS

To find out about other news in the field visit http://fmn2009.dei.uc.pt/index.html

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VENUE

FMN 2009 will take place in University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

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SOCIAL EVENTS

* Gala Dinner – The Basófias - http://www.basofias.com/
* Guided tour: University of Coimbra - http://www.uc.pt/

6th Latin-American Network Operations and Management Symposium
October 19th-21st, 2009
Barradas Hotel
Punta del Este, Uruguay
http://www.lanoms.org/2009/

Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE/IFIP/WG 6.6

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The 6th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium
(LANOMS 2009) will be held on October 19th-21st, 2008 at the Conrad
Resort & Casino in Punta del Este, Uruguay. LANOMS 2009 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 2009 is promoted by the University of the Republic of Uruguay
(UdelaR). 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 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).

Several types of sessions will be held at LANOMS 2009.

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.

Travel Grants:

Thanks to the supporting organizations, LANOMS 2009 has a travel
grants program. Authors of outstanding papers can apply. Please
contact Travel Grants Chair Martin Giachino at giachino@fing.edu.uy

Paper submissions:

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.The LANOMS 2009 invites authors from all
over the world to submit original and unpublished work to both
technical and application tracks. Topics of interest include but are
not limited to:

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
* IT service support processes
* 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

And special topics of interest to Latin America such as:

* Management experience of academic networks
* Management experience of metropolitan networks
* Management of community wireless networks
* Brazilian Giga Project
* EELA-2 Project
* OLPC deployment, such as CEIBAL and UCA projects
* Experience with Planet Lab
* IPv4/v6 networks and services
* Experience with advanced networks (Clara, Internet2, Ampath, Géant)

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Submission (extended) deadline: May 31, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2009
Camera ready paper due: July 12, 2009

*** PAPER SUBMISSION ***

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 2009 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 (to
be confirmed). Authors of scientific papers (full and short) should
submit a PDF file at https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2009. Please select
“Poster session” if you are submitting a short paper. Authors of
application papers should submit at
https://jems.sbc.org.br/lanoms2009_app.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted.

Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be submitted for
fast-track publication in Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier)


*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Nazim Agoulmine (nazim.agoulmine at iup.univ-evry.fr)
University of Evry Val d'Essonne

Eduardo Grampín (grampin at fing.edu.uy)
University of the Republic of Uruguay


TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Javier Baliosian (javierba at fing.edu.uy)
University of the Republic of Uruguay

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (granville at inf.ufrgs.br)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

APPLICATIONS CHAIR
Héctor Cancela
University of the Republic of Uruguay

Jose Neuman de Souza
Federal University of Ceara

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Pablo Rodriguez-Bocca
University of the Republic of Uruguay

*** STEERING COMMITTEE ***

Rolf Stadler
(Sweden)

Joan Serrat
(Spain)

Luciano P. Gaspary
(Brazil)

Bruno Schulze
(Brazil)

Carlos B. Westphall
(Brazil)

Gonzalo Perera
(Uruguay)

Pablo Belzarena
(Uruguay)

José Neuman de Souza
(Brazil )


*** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Abdelmalek Benzekri - Université Paul Sabatier
Aldri dos Santos - Universidade Federal do Paraná
Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro - UFMG
Ariel Sabiguero - Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República
Artur Ziviani - LNCC
Bruno Schulze - LNCC
Carlos Westphall - Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina
Ed Pinnes - Telcordia Technologies
Edmundo Monteiro - University of Coimbra
Eduardo Grampin - Universidad de la Republica de Uruguay
Hanan Lutfiyya - University of Western Ontario
Hector Cancela - Universidad de la Republica
James Hong - POSTECH
Javier Baliosian - University of the Republic
Javier Barria - Imperial College London
Joan Serrat - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
José De Souza - UFC
José Piquer - Universidad de Chile
Jose-Marcos Nogueira - UFMG
Linnyer Ruiz - UEL
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville - UFRGS
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary - UFRGS
Lundy Lewis - Southern New Hampshire University
Mauro Tortonesi - University of Ferrara
Mehmet Ulema - Manhattan College
Nazim Agoulmine - University of Evry
Pablo Belzarena - Universidad de la República
Pablo Rodríguez-Bocca - Universidad de la República
Paulo Simoes - University of Coimbra
Rossana Andrade - UFC