IM 2015 Issues Call for Experience Session Papers

July 25 — The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2015) will be held 11–15 May 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2015 follows the 27 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. IM 2015 will focus on the theme “Integrated Management in the Age of Big Data” presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with Big Data as well as using it for management solutions. IM 2015 will offer five types of sessions: technical, experience, poster, panel and dissertation digest. The goal of the Experience Session program is to complement the Technical Sessions with contributions that emphasize practical experiences and lessons learned in applying, implementing, and deploying management technology. They will focus on aspects such as real-world deployment scenarios, experiences with the management of new services and technology, industrial applications of management technology, implementation examples of new management technology, organizational impact, and business cases.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below.

Management case studies and best practices
Issues and experiences with practical deployments
Software Defined Networks and enabling technologies
Open source SDN frameworks, Open Daylight
Experiences with OpenFlow deployments
Orchestration and SDN controllers
Network function virtualization implementations
Data center automation
Management of cloud
Cloud service assurance
Management of grids and smart grids
Big Data analytics in management
Management of virtualized environments
OSS/BSS development
Virtualization of operation centers and help desks
Organizational aspects of IT service management
Risk Management and IT governance
Service engineering and operational challenges
Management of emerging networks and services
Green management and managing energy efficiency
Building automation and management
Smart buildings, industrial automation and management
Experiences with autonomic networking and self-management
Application of machine learning and data mining to management
Advances in standardization
Management information models
Management standards and enabling technologies
Integration technologies for management
Managing interactive media
Social networking infrastructure and management
Event correlation, diagnostics, fault, performance management
Billing and accounting models and service level management
Business alignment of IT service management
Experiences with Call Home frameworks
Managed service provider issues
Service delivery and service assurance
Experiences with process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, eTOM)

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions using the JEMS conference submission system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/im2015_expsession. All submissions must be written in English and have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers for the Experience Sessions must adhere to one of the following two format options:

Option 1: Annotated Slides. Papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions must not exceed 15 annotated slides including title and references, in PDF only.
Option 2: IEEE 2-column format. This is the same format as for Technical Sessions. Paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages, in PDF only.

Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors, in case of paper acceptance, to register for IM 2015 and present the contribution in the conference. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates

Paper submission: September 15th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2014
Camera ready submission: February 1st, 2015

Experience Session Co-Chairs