The 16th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018)

23-27 April 2018

Taipei, Taiwan

http://noms2018.ieee-noms.org/

Call For Technical Papers

The 16th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018) will be held 23‐27 April 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan. Held in even‐numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2018 will follow the 30 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. The theme of NOMS2018 will be Towards Cognitive Management in a Cyber World, presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with management of Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks, Clouds, and Vertical Systems (e.g., smart cities and smart transportations, etc.) in order to enable convergence of the networked services. NOMS 2018 will offer various types of sessions: keynotes, technical, experience, demo, tutorial, poster, panel, and dissertation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Smart Vertical Systems in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era

Smart Cities
Smart Grid
Smart Homes
Cyber‐Physical Systems
Internet of Things
5G
Social Networks
Applications and case studies

Software‐Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Network virtualization
Control plane programmability
Data plane programmability
Management & Orchestration (MANO)
Service Function Chaining
Protocols, languages and frameworks
Open source networking (ONOS, CORD, ODL, ONAP, OSM, OVS, DPDK, etc.)
Cloud native networking
Case studies and practical deployments

Technologies Enabling Smart Management

Management with Big Data
Management with AI, Deep Learning
Data, information, and semantic modeling
Message and software buses
Middleware, Mobile agents, Protocols
Software engineering for clouds
Software product lines
Virtualization
Web services

Security Management

Intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, intrusion response
Network security
Security for peer‐to‐peer and overlay networks
Security for smart X and large systems and critical infrastructures
Privacy and anonymity
Vulnerability management
Early warning

Service Management

Business management
Clouds
Data center management
Data service management
Hosting
Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service
IT service management
Managed service provisioning
Multimedia service management
OTT service management
Virtualized infrastructure management

Functional areas

Billing, Accounting
Configuration and Deployment
Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting
Fault management
Energy‐efficiency/green management
Service Assurance
Service Fulfillment
Service Level Management
Security Management

Management approaches

Autonomic and self‐management
Best practices
Centralized management
Distributed management
Integrated management
Management architectures
Organizational aspects
Policy‐based management
Process oriented management
IT service management (ITSM)
Process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, CobIT, RiskIT, ValIT)

Important Dates

Paper Submission	Sep. 5, 2017
Notification of Acceptance	Dec. 4, 2017
Camera Ready	Jan. 12, 2018

Submission Guideline

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Organizing Committee

HONORARY GENERAL CHAIR

Yuan-Kuang Tu
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

James Won-Ki Hong
POSTECH, Korea
Yu-Chee Tseng
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

TPC CO-CHAIRS

Young-Tak Kim
Yeungnam University, Korea
Clarissa Marquezan
Huawei Technologies, Germany
Chih-Wei Yi
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

KEYNOTES/DEP CO-CHAIRS

Alex Galis
UCL, UK
Yu-Huang Chu
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan
Taesang Choi
ETRI, Korea

PANEL CO-CHAIRS

Filip De Turck
Ghent University, Belgium
Phone Lin
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kiyohito Yoshihara
KDDI Research, Japan

EXPERIENCE SESSION CO-CHAIRS

Noura Limam
University of Waterloo, Canada
Shingo Ata
Osaka City University, Japan
Joon-Myung Kang
Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Chung-Ta King
National Tsing Hua University., Taiwan

POSTER CO-CHAIRS

Mohamed Faten Zhani
École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Cheng-Hsin Hsu
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Takumi Miyoshi
Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Prosper Chemouil
Orange Labs, France
Roberto Riggio
Create-Net, Italy
Jiann-Liang Chen
National Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Taiwan
Kazuhiko Kinoshita
Tokushima University, Japan

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS

Luciano Paschoal Gaspary
UFRGS, Brazil
Yen-Wen Chen
National Central Univ., Taiwan
Hong-Taek Ju
Keimyung Univ., Korea

DEMO CO-CHAIRS

Remi Badonnel
Telecom Nancy, France
Sejun Song
UMKC, USA
Wen-Chih Peng
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Mu-Chun Su
National Central University, Taiwan

EXHIBITION CO-CHAIRS

Shen Lin Chou
ITRI, Taiwan
Young-Woo Lee
KT, Korea
Manabu Nakagawa
NTT Communications, Japan

PATRONS CO-CHAIRS

Teh-Sheng Huang
Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan
Buseung Cho
KISTI, Korea

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT CO-CHAIRS

Olivier Festor
Telcom Nancy, France
Carol Fung
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

FINANCE CHAIR

Chien Chen
National Chiao Tung University

TREASURER

Bruce Worthman
IEEE ComSoc, USA

IEEE COMSOC COORDINATOR

Gayle Weisman
IEEE ComSoc, USA

PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS

Jiun-Long Huang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Myung-Sup Kim
Korea University, Korea

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS

Yung-Ju Chang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Raylin Tso
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Chih-Hao Chang
TamKang University, Taiwan

SECRETARY

Chi Yu Li
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA CO-CHAIRS

Yung-Ju Chang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
His-Lu Chao
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

Burkhard Stiller
U. of Zurich, Switzerland
Chien-Chao Tseng
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Yoonhee Kim
Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
Takuya Asaka
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Deep Medhi
University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Carlos Westphall
SCFU, Brazil
John Jiahai Yang
Tsinghua University, China
Rocky K. C. Chang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn
AIT, Thailand
Rajan Shankaran
Macquarie University, Australia
Shie-Yuan Wang
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

STEERING COMMITTEE

Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo, Canada
Marus Brunner
Swisscom, Switzerland
Prosper Chemouil
Orange Labs, France
Alexander Clemm
Huawei, USA
Olivier Festor
Telcom Nancy, France
Nobuo Fujii
Cyber Creative Institute, Japan
James Won-Ki Hong
POSTECH, Korea
Aiko Pras
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
UFRGS, Brazil
Doug Zuckerman
Vencore Labs, USA

ADVISORY BOARD

Masayoshi Ejiri
Japan
Choong Seon Hong
Kyung Hee University, Korea
Yoshiaki Kiriha
NEC, Japan
Wang-Cheol Song
Jeju National University, Korea
Yoshiaki Tanaka
Waseda University, Japan