[agents] 2nd Workshop on Intent Driven Autonomous Networks (NESTOR), 2025

[Kostas Katsalis]

Call for Papers

2nd Workshop on Intent driven Autonomous Networks (NESTOR)

In conjunction with the 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN’2025)

https://www.icin-conference.org/





Description

The term “intent" in autonomous networks refers to the goals or objectives set by external customers and internal Operation and Management (O&M) personnel, which represents a set of business or operational requirements in declarative form or even using natural language. Intent enables users to express their business objectives, business logic, constraints, etc. towards the communication networks without needing to specify the detailed implementation way.

Intent-driven autonomous networks rely upon a processing flow that transforms user input (sometimes in “natural language”) into implementation-agnostic “intent primitives”, which are then translated into implement­ation-specific “executable policies” and “configurations”. As the system evolves, this processing flow should be adaptive to feedback and dynamically changing conditions.

This alleviates the need for customers to understand the technical intricacies and detailed policies of managing network services and reduces the network O&M burden to achieve potentially conflicting goals, providing users with flexible and reliable network services, enabling efficient utilization of network resources, and fully exploiting the network potential.



The workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to investigate challenging aspects of intent-driven management for 5G and future 6G systems, as well as to identify future research directions. Open issues and key innovations related to Intent-based network management will be discussed. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers to this workshop. Topics include, but are not limited to:

*       Standardization of intent-based management for the telco cloud
*       Orchestration frameworks and intent-based management methodologies
*       Intent-driven management for the virtualised RAN
*       Intent-based management approaches in 5G and towards 6G communications
*       Application of intent-based management architectures and frameworks in telecom networks
*       Human-to-system intent interpretation through Natural Language Processing (NLP)
*       Machine-to-machine intent expression
*       Automated intent translation and policy generation
*       Automated intent/policy conflict detection and resolution
*       Automated intent monitoring and assurance
*       Knowledge-driven intent/policy management
*       AI-driven intent/policy management
*       Intent test and verification before activation
*       AI asset management for intent-driven autonomous networks
*       Emerging standards, technologies and advances on intent-driven management
*       Intent-driven management for real-time and deterministic communications
*       Coupling between Management Data Analytics (MDA) and intent-based management
*       Coupling of intent-driven management with closed control loops and digital twins



Paper Submission Guidelines

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at:

Full papers: (6 to 8 pages): https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33098&track=127681

Short papers (4 to 5 pages): https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33098&track=127682

Technical papers can be up to 6 pages (or 4 pages for short papers), including tables, figures and references. All submissions must be written in English and must use a standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

At least one author is required to register, at the full rate, to present accepted papers at the workshop and for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.



Important Dates

•• Workshop paper submission deadline: December 16, 2024

•• Acceptance notification: January 14, 2025

•• Camera-ready paper submission: January 21, 2025

•• Workshop date: Tuesday March 11th, 2025



Technical Program Committee members



Name

Affiliation

1

Bruno Chatras

Independent Expert

2

Anubhab Banerjee

Nokia, Germany

3

David Blaisonneau

Orange, France

4

Elham Dehghan Biyar

Ericsson, Turkey

5

Eric Debeau

Orange, France

6

Joan Triay

DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany

7

Konstantinos Kousias

University of Oslo, Norway

8

Kostas Katsalis

DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany

9

Lingli Deng

China Mobile research Institute, China

10

Mirko D’Angelo

Ericsson, Sweden

11

Pedro Braconnot Velloso

CNAM, France

12

Refik Fatih Ustok

DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany

13

Uwe Rauschenbach

Nokia, Germany

14

Deng Hui

Huawei, China

15

Thomas Magedanz

Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany

16

Daniel Camps Mur

I2CAT, Spain



Organizers

*       Lingli Deng, China Mobile, China (denglingli at chinamobile.com<mailto:denglingli at chinamobile.com>)
*       Bruno Chatras, Independent Expert, France (brunochatras at gmail.com<mailto:brunochatras at gmail.com>)

*       Kostas Katsalis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany (katsalis at docomolab-euro.com<mailto:katsalis at docomolab-euro.com>)
*       Uwe Rauschenbach, NOKIA, Germany (uwe.rauschenbach at nokia.com<mailto:uwe.rauschenbach at nokia.com>)
*       Refik Fatih Üstok, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany (uestok at docomolab-euro.com<mailto:uestok at docomolab-euro.com>)



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