Call for Technical Papers (Word, PDF) 
Towards Management of Future Networks and Services

The 12^th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2010) will be held 19-23 April 2010 at the Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2010 will follow the 22 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on network and service management focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2010 will present up-to-date approaches and technical solutions for novel management paradigms to deal with the new management issues in future infrastructures such as Web 2.0 or beyond service environments, cloud computing platforms, large-scale datacenters, and the Future Internet, as well targeting the conventional issues in large and complex services, systems, and networks.

NOMS 2010 will offer four types of sessions: technical, application, poster, and panel sessions. Technical sessions will present high-quality papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions will include papers focusing on the experience in IT and telecommunications industries, such as service providers, OSS vendors, and equipment manufacturers. The scope here includes customer requirements, management system implementations, and business practices. Poster sessions provide an insight into work-in-progress. Panel sessions will focus on business implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists who are the technology and business leaders.

Please note: Papers accepted for NOMS 2010 will be included in the conference Proceedings, IEEE XPlore, and EI Index, with the exception that IEEE reserves the right to exclude any paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.  Papers that are removed from IEEE Xplore will not be available through the EI Index.

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. 
In addition, we invite submissions of proposals for technical panels, tutorials, workshops, and application session papers

   Network Management
  . Ad-hocnetworks
  . Wireless & mobile networks
  . IP/MPLS networks
  . LANs
  . Optical networks
  . Sensor networks
  . Overlay networks
  . P2P networks
  . Broadband access networks
  . Future Internet

 Technologies
. Protocols
. Middleware
. Mobile agents
. Data, information, and semantic modeling

  Service Management
  .Multimedia service management
  .Data service management
  .Hosting
  .Data centers
  .Grid & cloud computing
  .Virtualization
  .Home networking

 

Submission Instructions
Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in 2-column style (main text in 10-point size) including figures and correct margins. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review process.

Please use the stylesheet templates provided by IEEE to assure that your proposal is in line with our guidelines. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html.  If you are using neither Microsoft Word nor Latex, you can use the guidelines provided by a template file. Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format via JEMS (https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2010)

General Co-Chairs:
Nobuo Fujii, NTT-AT, Japan
James Hong, POSTECH, Korea

Important Dates :
Paper Registration & Submission: 13 September 2009(firm deadline)
Notification of Acceptance: 8 November 2009
Final Camera Ready Papers Due:㺹2㺹December 2009