Conference Topics

All authors are invited to submit unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following or related topic areas:

• Autonomic network and service management
• Adaptability and self-organization
• Decentralized and distributed management techniques
• Monitoring and visualization of management data and systems behavior
• Accounting of systems, services, and behaviors
• Distributed network analysis and accounting
• Management of grid resources and virtual networks
• Network measurements in large high-speed networks (hardware acceleration in networking)
• Network security monitoring
• Monitoring of special environments (SCADA networks, smart grids, building management systems)
• Protection against distributed attacks and botnets
• Modeling of management technologies and procedures
• Virtualization of resources and services
• Configuration and security in the Internet of Things
• Overlay- and P2P-based management systems
• Socio-economic effects of service provisioning
• Economic traffic management

Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series and will include the conference papers as well as the PhD student workshop papers. Tutorial materials will be distributed to participants at the conference.

Conference Paper Submission

Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2012 Web page.

Submissions to the conference are expected to report substantial research results relevant for the subjects listed above.

PhD Student Workshop Submission

The PhD workshop is open to both PhD and prospective PhD student. Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their research. The paper should include a clear description of the research problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers should have no more than two authors - the student and the advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS 2012 proceedings.

Best Paper Award

The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible). The winner will be presented at the conference.

Deadlines

• January 27 February 10, 2012 - Conference paper registration deadline
• January 27 February 10, 2012 - Conference paper submission deadline
• January 27 February 10, 2012 - Ph.D. student workshop paper registration deadline
• January 27 February 10, 2012 - Ph.D. student workshop paper submission deadline
• March 05 March 19, 2012 - Notification about paper acceptance
• March 26, 2012 - Camera ready paper copies due
• June 04-08, 2012 - AIMS 2012 conference and summer school

The call for papers is also availabe in PDF format.