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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Apologies for cross-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""> CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS<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""> WIN 2022
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> 2nd International Workshop on Intent-based Networking<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""> co-located with IEEE International Conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> 27 June - 1 July 2022, Milan, Italy<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""> Workshop paper submission deadline: February 28, 2022<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"">Aim and Scope<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"">Intent Based Networking (IBN) aims at technology-agnostic, fast and robust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">interaction between network infrastructure management systems and their
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">users, in order to automate and speed up the deployment and lifecycle
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">of applications. IBN as such covers mechanisms to recognize, understand
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and augment intents defining service or operational requests, so as
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to ensure their fulfillment, with the support of reliable system feedback
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">enabling their execution within the expected quality limits.<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 concept of IBN appeared in the 2010’s with a focus on automated policy
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">configuration. IBN now reaches out to OTT applications deployed on multiple
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">and heterogeneous networks. IBN solutions do not aim at covering all
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">applications and the entire network. Instead, they are deemed to run in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">a well-defined network scope and associated knowledge domains. That said,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IBN solutions need to have enough flexibility to span and exchange with
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">connected domains.
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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"">The goal of this workshop is to gather research and experiments
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">from industry, academia, and standards, to get a sense of where we stand,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">what needs to be addressed and what should be explored. To this end,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the workshop will cover IBN aspects of all domains including applications,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">concepts, lifecycle, challenges, architectures, modeling, instantiation,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">robustness, etc.<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<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"">* IBN concepts, architectures, and frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* IBN enabling techniques: knowledge graphs, natural languages under-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">standing, policy refinement, feedback control loops, smart telemetry,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">various artificial intelligence methods, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* IBN applications and use cases, including scenarios combining digital
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">infrastructures and vertical industries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* IBN proof-of-concepts, experimentations; report on field trials and real-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">world deployments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* IBN implementations, tools, and user interface design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* IBN applications for 5G, beyond-5G and 6G networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Intent modeling, representation, languages, and intent translation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Intent and intent-related information models (policies and services)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Intent recognition, recommendation, and abstraction techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Availability, resiliency, performance, trust, and security considerations
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">in IBN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Interfaces and API for intent based systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Recent advances in standards and open source<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"">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: February 28, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Notification of Acceptance: April 11, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Camera-ready Submission: April 25, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Workshops Date: Either Monday June 27th, 2022 or Friday July 1st, 2022<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"">Submission<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"">A selection of the best papers will be further considered for possible
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">publication in IEEE Journals and Magazines with high impact factors.<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"">Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">must be electronically submitted through EDAS: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">https://www.edas.info/chair.php?c=29267<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"">* Laurent Ciavaglia, Rakuten Mobile, France – General Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Sabine Randriamasy, Nokia, France – General Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Eric Renault, ESIEE Paris, France – TPC Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Molka Gharbaoui, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy – TPC Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Pedro Henrique Gomes, Ericsson, Brazil – Industry Track Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Danny Lachos, Benocs, Germany – Industry Track Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Nicolas Herbaut, U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France – Industry Track Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Sabine Randriamasy, Nokia, France – Industry Track Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Barbara Martini, CNIT, Italy – Publicity Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Mohamed Faten Zhani, ETS, Canada – Publicity Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Kohei Shiomoto, Tokyo City University, Japan – Publicity Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Nicolas Herbaut, U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France – Publication Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">* Eric Renault, ESIEE Paris, France – Web Chair<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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