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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[Apologies for cross and multiple postings]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> CALL FOR PAPERS – CNSM 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> 21-25 October 2019, Halifax, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2019 (extended)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2019/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the network and service management research area. CNSM 2019 is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and cloud computing environments. CNSM 2019 will focus on the theme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">"Embracing the New Wave of AI". The core track is accompanied by a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">series of workshops and poster sessions.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2019 will be published open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">access on the conference Web site (with IFIP copyright). Authors
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2019
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">paper to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Network Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Software-defined networks
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Virtual networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Overlay networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Wireless networks and cellular networks
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Sensor networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Internet of Things networks
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Information-centric networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Enterprise networks and campus networks
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Data center networks
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Optical networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - IP networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Home networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Access networks <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - SCADA networks and distributed control systems
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> - Smart cities and smart grids<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Management Paradigms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Centralized management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Distributed management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Hierarchical management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Federated management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Autonomic and cognitive management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Policy-based management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Pro-active management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Energy-aware management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Quality of experience-centric management
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Service Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Cloud computing services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Content delivery services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Multimedia services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Internet connectivity and Internet access<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Internet of Things services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Context-aware services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Information technology services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Business Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Economic aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Multi-stakeholder aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Service level agreements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Lifecycle aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Process and workflow aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Legal perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Regulatory perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Privacy aspects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Functional Areas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Deployment management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Fault management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Configuration management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Accounting management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Performance management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Security management
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Management Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Network function virtualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Software-defined networking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Cloud computing and cloud storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Communication protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Middleware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Data models, information models semantic models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Operations support systems and business support systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Information visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Mathematical optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Control theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Machine learning, artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Evolutionary algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Economic theory and game theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Mathematical logic and automated reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Data mining and (big) data analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Monitoring and measurements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Computer simulation experiments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Field trials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">limited to 8 pages excluding references (full papers) or 4 pages
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">excluding references (short papers). They have to be submitted
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">electronically in PDF format through EDAS. Papers exceeding page
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">phase.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper Submission : June 15, 2019 (extended)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera Ready due : August 30, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Conference : October 21-25, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">--------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Yixin Diao, PebblePost, USA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Technical Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Remi Badonnel, Telecom Nancy, France
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> James Hong, POSTECH, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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