[BBLISA-announce] IFIP/IEEE IM 2015: Call for Experience Session Papers (Submission Due: 15 September 2014)

[Yixin Diao]

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                   Call for Experience Session Papers

The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management

                     Ottawa, Canada, 11-15 May 2015
  http://im2015.ieee-im.org/content/experience-session-papers

               (Paper Submission Date: 15 September 2014)

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The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management
(IM 2015) will be held 11-15 May 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the
Ottawa Convention Centre. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2015
follows the 27 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE
Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of
information and communication technology focusing on research, development,
integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. IM 2015
will focus on the theme "Integrated Management in the Age of Big Data"
presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing
with Big Data as well as using it for management solutions. IM 2015 will
offer five types of sessions: technical, experience, poster, panel and
dissertation digest. The goal of the Experience Session program is to
complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize
practical experiences and lessons learned 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 examples of new management technology, organizational
impact, and business cases.

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Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the
topic areas that are listed below.

• 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
• Management of grids and smart grids
• 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
• Risk Management and IT governance
• Service engineering and operational challenges
• Management of emerging networks and services
• Green management and managing energy efficiency
• Building automation and management
• 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
• Management standards and enabling technologies
• Integration technologies for management
• Managing interactive media
• Social networking infrastructure and management
• 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)

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Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions using the JEMS
conference submission system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/im2015_expsession.
All submissions must be written in English and have not been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers for the Experience Sessions
must 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 slides 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.

Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors, in case
of paper acceptance, to register for IM 2015 and present the contribution
in the conference. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted
papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.

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Important Dates

Paper submission: September 15th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2014
Camera ready submission: February 1st, 2015

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Experience Session Co-Chairs

• Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy

For more information, please contact the experience session co-chairs at
im2015expsession at gmail.com
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