The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD student workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across different communities and among PhD students. Furthermore, AIMS 2010 collocates the International Summer School in Network and Service Management (ISSNSM 2010). This unique summer school will offer hands-on learning experiences in network and service management topics, which will requires attendees to work in practical on-site courses combined with preceding short tutorial-like teaching sessions.

AIMS 2010 focusses on the service provisioning aspects of modern networks and their services. The set of mechanisms, negotiation schemes, scalability aspects, and autonomous approaches are of key interest. In particular the design, monitoring, management, and protection of networked systems in an efficient, secure, and autonomic manner are key to commercially viable and successful networks and services.