Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to June 11. However, please still register the paper by June 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CNSM 2010 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management Niagara Falls, Canada October 25 - 29, 2010 http://www.cnsm2010.org/ (Paper Submission Date: June 1, 2010) The 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2010) is a premier annual conference, sponsored by IEEE COMPSOC and IFIP, in the general area of network, systems, and services management. Built upon the success starting in 2005 to collocate six management workshops within the same week (MANWEEK), this year we debut the single main conference with a single track. The integrated conference provides a unique opportunity to showcase both premier research results and innovative cross-disciplinary explorations. As an open forum, we encourage authors to explore new ideas and to boost the synergy among distinctive but strongly correlated areas. Topics of interest include: Service and IT Management Distributed systems operations and management Application management (context-aware, enterprise, healthcare) Management of multimedia and data services SOA and web services management Data centers & hosting service management IT service management and Business process management Cloud computing and grid management Virtualization & resource provisioning Trust and privacy as a service Decision support for business-driven management Network Management Ad-hoc networks Wireless & mobile networks IP/MPLS networks LANs Optical networks Sensor networks Overlay networks P2P networks Broadband access networks Home networking IP Operations and management Smart Grids (Energy) Future Internet and Next-Generation networks Managing network and service changes Management Methods and Technologies Fault management Configuration management Service level management Performance management Security management Event management Energy management Policy-based management Autonomic and self-management Visualization Protocols, middleware, and mobile agents Control theory, optimization theory, and machine learning Probability and stochastic processes IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper registration and submission June 1, 2010 Author notification July 23, 2010 Camera ready papers due August 20, 2010 Conference date October 25-29, 2010 SUBMISSION DETAILS ------------------ Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports are also encouraged. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to CNSM 2010. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports) formatted according to the standard IEEE two-column Transactions guidelines (http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html). * Long papers (up to 8 two-column pages) * Short papers (up to 4 two-column pages) Please visit JEMS conference management system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/ for paper registration and submission (only PDF files are accepted). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Program Chairs Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Vice Chairs Service and IT Management * Lisandro Granville, Federal Univ. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * John Strassner, POSTECH, Korea Network Management * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Management Methods and Technologies * Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA * Joan Serrat, University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Publications Chair Deep Medhi, University of Missouri, USA Publicity Chair Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil Workshops Chair Noura Limam, POSTECH, Korea Webmaster Karthick Ramachandran, University of Western Ontario, Canada Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada James Hong, POSTECH, Korea Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Nethereland Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA