Call for Papers

Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management DSOM'99

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, TIK, Zürich, Switzerland

October 11-13, 1999

The Tenth Annual IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on "Distributed Systems: Operations and Management" (DSOM'99) will be hosted by the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zürich. DSOM'99 is sponsored by the IFIP Working Group 6.6 with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society. DSOM'99 follows a series of highly successful meetings, the latest of which took place in Delaware, USA (DSOM'98), Sydney, Australia (DSOM'97), and L'Aquila, Italy (DSOM'96).

The DSOM workshops focus on the latest advancements in operations and management in networked environments and discuss the impact of emerging computing and networking technologies on management. Of specific interest to DSOM'99 will be the current developments in the field of active and programmable networks.

The workshop will be limited to approximately 100 participants and will follow a single track program, in order to allow for in-depth discussions and interaction among workshop participants. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

TOPICS

• Management of Active and Programmable Networks
• Mobile and Intelligent Agent Technology in Management
• Telecommunication Services Management
• Interdomain Management
• Management of Mobile Systems and Networks
• Management of the Internet and Internet Services
• Enabling Management Platforms: CORBA, Java, Web, etc.
• Integration of Network Control and Management
• Monitoring, Event Handling, and Fault Management of Networks and Services
• Policy-Based Management
• Security Management
• Management Aspects of Service Pricing and Electronic Commerce

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must include a cover page in ASCII format, containing the title, author name(s) and affiliation(s), the complete address (telephone, fax, email) of the corresponding author, and an abstract (max 150 words) followed by up to 5 keywords.

Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to DSOM'99.

Authors are requested to submit papers in electronic PDF or Postscript format. Instructions for electronic submissions are available.

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