PRELIMINATY CALL FOR PAPERS

                 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and
                    Management Symposium (NOMS 2010)

                    19-23 April, 2010 - Osaka, Japan
                        http://www.noms2010.org



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

NOMS 2010 will offer four types of sessions:  technical,  application,
poster, and panel.  Technical sessions  present high-quality papers on
the latest  research results in the network  operations and management
area.  Application sessions present papers focusing  on the experience
of 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  focus on  business implications,  market trends,  and
emerging applications with panelists who  are technology and  business
leaders.


*** TOPICS ***

Authors  are invited  to submit  papers in  the following  or  related
topical areas:

Network Management
. Ad-hoc networks
. Wireless & mobile networks
. IP networks
. LANs
. Optical networks
. Sensor networks
. Overlay networks
. Broadband access networks

Service Management
. Multimedia service management
. Data service management
. Hosting
. Grid
. Virtualization

Business Management
. Legal & ethical issues
. Process management

Functional Areas
. Fault management
. Configuration management
. Accounting management
. Performance management
. Security management
. SLA management
. Event management

Management Approaches
. Centralized management
. Distributed management
. Autonomic and self-management
. Policy-based management

Technologies
. Protocols
. Middleware
. Mobile agents
. Peer-to-peer
. Data, information, and semantic modeling

Methodologies for Network Management
. Control theories
. Optimization theories
. Economic theories
. Machine learning and genetic algorithms
. Logics
. Probabilistic, stochastic processes, queuing theory
. Simulation
. Experimental approach
. Design


*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***

Authors  are  invited  to submit  original contributions  (written  in
English) in  PDF format through the NOMS 2010 web site.  Only original
papers  that have  not been published  or  submitted  for  publication
elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages
(full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers
exceeding  these limits,  multiple submissions,  and  self-plagiarized
papers will be rejected without further review.


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

. Paper Registration & Submission: 1 September 2009
. Notification of Acceptance: 8 November 2009
. Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 January 2010


*** GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ***

. Nobuo Fujii, NTT-AT, Japan
. James Hong, POSTECH, Korea


*** TPC CO-CHAIRS ***

. Lisandro Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
. Yoshiaki Kiriha, NICT, Japan
. Deep Medhi, UMKC, USA