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Subject: [Fwd: [Ifip_nm] XML-based Management of Networks and Services]
Hello, Since this topic is clearly related to the WSDM work, I thought this call for papers would be relevant. -- John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
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- From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- To: ifip_nm@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:22:26 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE XML-based Management of Networks and Services Background The increasing dependence of society on the availability and the correct operation of the Internet demands for continuous improvement of Internet management technologies. Traditionally, Internet management is based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), which defines the management information exchange between managers and agents. Within agents, the management information is organized in Management Information Bases (MIBs) and described according to the rules of the Structure of Management Information (SMI). Although several versions of SNMP, MIBs and the SMI exist, the basic concepts did not change since the first versions appeared nearly 15 years ago. At that time bandwidth was scarce and processing power of devices was limited. Although many years of experience proved that existing Internet management technology is well suited to monitor network devices, it also became clear that SNMP technology is hardly used for configuration management and management of higher level services. These management tasks still rely on proprietary and ad-hoc technologies. Currently, there is a growing interest in using XML technologies for management purposes. XML has the advantage that it is widely accepted, which means that there are many tools available that potentially support the implementation of management functions. In addition, the promise of XML is to facilitate the easy integration of different applications; something that is particularly important for the cooperation of network and service management applications. Scope of Expected Contributions It is the intention to present the state of the art and recent developments in XML based management in a feature issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. Authors are therefore invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review for any other conference or journal, in the following areas: - Architectures for XML based management - Management based on Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, ...) - Management information and data modeling using XML Schema - Translation from traditional information and data models to XML schemas or DTDs - Protocols for XML based management - Interworking between XML and traditional management systems - Secure management using the XML security framework - Application of generic XML technologies (XPath, RDF, XQuery, ...) for management - Implementation experiences and case-studies - Standardization activities (IETF, DMTF, ...) Submission Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts through Manuscript Central <http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/> by November 15th. Please see <http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html> for the author's guidelines. The following is the timetable for this feature topic publication: Submission Deadline: November 15, 2003 Acceptance Notifications: February 15, 2004 Final Manuscripts Due: April 15, 2004 Journal Publication: July 01, 2004 Guest Editors Olivier Festor LORIA - INRIA Lorraine 54602 Villers-lès-Nancy France <olivier.festor@loria.fr> Aiko Pras University of Twente 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands <a.pras@utwente.nl> Jürgen Schönwälder International University Bremen 28759 Bremen Germany <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany _______________________________________________ IFIP_NM mailing list IFIP_NM@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm--- End Message ---
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