From: dnz@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (douglas.n.zuckerman)
Subject: DSOM '93 CFP
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:52:01 GMT
Keywords: Distributed Systems, Operations, Management, Communications, Networks

            Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on
           Distributed Systems: Operations & Management

                         October 5-6, 1993

         Ocean Place Hilton, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

                      Call for Participation


Sponsored by International Federation of Information Processing
(IFIP) Working Group 6.6 (IFIP WG 6.6) on Network Management for
Communication Networks, with participation of IEEE Communications
Society Committee on Network Operations & Management (IEEE CNOM).
Hosted by AT&T Bell Laboratories.


Subject

This workshop covers aspects of operations and management of
distributed systems, including new techniques arising from recent
experiences with management tools and from the integration of
broadband networks and telecommunications into distributed
computing environment. Topics of particular interest include but
are not limited to:

Management Platforms
- Experiences using distributed management platforms
- Application programming interfaces for network management
- User interfaces for distributed management

Management Information
- Distributed MIB implementations
- Modelling relationships, time aspects, global network views and domains

Management Knowledge
- Acquisition techniques
- Shared management knowledge techniques and management schema negotiation

Management as a Distributed Processing System
- Using distributed system techniques for management
- Integration of operations and management systems

Management of Broadband Networks
- Integrating broadband networks and multi-media
  services into distributed systems
- New operations and management techniques for broadband networks

Security Management
- Management of security mechanisms
- Security policies

This international workshop follows the highly successful workshops
on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management" held in Berlin,
Santa Barbara and Munich in previous years.  As at these workshops,
the New Jersey workshop is part of a collaborative effort by IFIP
WG 6.6 and IEEE CNOM fostering cooperation among people actively
working in this area. To encourage discussion, attendance will be
limited to about 60 participants. Selection of participants will be
based, primarily, on submitted and accepted contributions.
Selections of contributions will be based on reviews of the paper
summaries submitted.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Ocean Place Hilton, Long Branch,
New Jersey, on October 5-6, 1993.  On October 7 the Program
Committee meeting of the IEEE/IFIP 1994 Network Operations and
Management Symposium, NOMS '94, will be held at the same site.

Program Committee

Salah Aidarous (Bell-Northern Research)
Roberta S. Cohen (AT&T Bell Labs)
Richard Edmiston (GTE Labs)
Fabienne Faure, IRIT/SIERA Toulouse)
Heinz-Gerd Hegering (University of Munich)
Gautam Kar (IBM ENC Heidelberg)
S. Mark Klerer (AT&T Bell Labs)
Kenneth J. Lutz (Bell Communications Research)
Branislav Meandzija (MetaAccess Inc.) IFIP WG 6.6 Vice-Chair
Shoichiro Nakai (NEC Japan)
Morris Sloman (Imperial College London)
Yechiam Yemini (Columbia University)
Wolfgang Zimmer (GMD-FIRST Berlin) IFIP WG 6.6 Chair
Douglas N. Zuckerman (AT&T Bell Labs) IEEE CNOM Chair (DSOM'93 Chair)

Please submit 4 copies of a summary (4-10 double-spaced pages) of
your technical contribution to:

       Douglas N. Zuckerman
       Room 3P-364, AT&T Bell Laboratories
       200 Laurel Avenue
       Middletown, New Jersey 07748  USA
       Tel: +1 908 957 7874
       Fax: +1 908 957 7500
       Email: w2xd@mrspock.att.com

Schedule

Contribution summary due: March 15, 1993
Authors notified: June 15, 1993
Tentative program mailed: July 1, 1993
Presentation materials due: September 1, 1993

Organization

For information regarding local arrangements contact:

      Dorotea DeSan, Local Arrangements Coordinator
      Room 1L-314, AT&T Bell Laboratories
      101 Crawfords Corner Road
      Holmdel, New Jersey 07733  USA
      Tel: +1 908 949 5534
      Fax: +1 908 949 8569
      Email: dds@arch3.att.com
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