From: w2xd@mtu2d.att.com (Douglas N Zuckerman)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Workshop on Distributed Systems Operations and Management (DSOM '92)
Keywords: Network Management, Systems Management, Platforms
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:01:26 GMT
Expires: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: AT&T


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       |        IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on           |
       |   Distributed Systems: Operations & Management       |
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       |            Invitation for participation              |
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   Sponsored by International Federation of Information Processing
   (IFIP) WG 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks.
   With participation of IEEE Communications Society Committee
   on Network Operations & Management

   Hosted by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Muenchen and
   Leibniz Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
   Muenchen

                         October 12-13, 1992
                           Munich, Germany



This workshop will cover 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 environments.

Sessions on the following topics:

-- Management Information and Management Knowledge,
-- Management Platforms: Architectures and Concepts,
-- Management Platforms: Implementation and Experience,
-- Management as a Distributed Processing System,
-- Management of Future Telecommunications

and a Panel Session on Automated Operations will be held.

This international workshop follows the highly successful workshops
on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management" held in Berlin
in October 1990 and in Santa Barbara in October 1991.
As at these workshops, the Munich workshop is part of a collaborative
effort by IFIP WG 6.6 and IEEE CNOM, and is intended to foster
cooperation among people actively working in this area. To encourage
discussion, attendance will be limited to about 60 to 70
participants.
Selection of participants will be primarily based on accepted
contributions.

Venue:
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The workshop will be held at the Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
AG (SNI)
in Munich, October 12--13, 1992. It is planned for two days.
Immediately
following the workshop, the Program Committee meeting of the Third
International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, ISINM '93,
will be held.

Program Committee:
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Roberta Cohen (AT&T Bell Labs), Joerg Gonschorek (SNI),
Heinz-Gerd Hegering (University of Munich) (Chair),
Kim Kappel (Georgia Institute of Technology, IFIP WG 6.6 Vice-Chair),
Gautam Kar (IBM ENC Heidelberg), Kenneth J. Lutz (Bell
Communications Research), Branislav Meandzija (MetaAccess Inc.,
IFIP WG 6.6 Vice-Chair), Morris Sloman (Imperial College London),
Wolfgang Zimmer (GMD-FIRST Berlin, IFIP WG 6.6 Chair),
Douglas N. Zuckerman (AT&T Bell Labs,
IEEE CNOM Chair).

Organization:
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For more information regarding the workshop and local arrangements
contact:
Karl Beschoner, Organization Co-Chair DSOM 1992,
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG,
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-8000 Muenchen 83, Germany;
Tel. +49 89 636 40916; Fax: +49 89 636 46931;
E-mail beschoner.muc@sni-usa.com or beschoner.muc@sni.de




                       Advance Program
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Monday, October, 12th
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 9:00 -  9:45        Welcome

 9:45 - 10:15        Coffee and refreshments

10:15 - 12:30        Session 1: Management Information and
                                Management Knowledge

                     Chair: Branislav Meandzija, MetaAccess Inc.,
                            Santa Barbara

                     DAMOCLES - A Tool for the Definition of
                     Managed Objects
                     Wittig & Pfeiler, GMD-FOKUS, Germany

                     Understand -> Specify -> Reuse:
                     Precise Specification of Behavior and
                     Relationships
                     Kilov, Bell Comm. Res., USA

                     Towards an Integrated Performance Management:
                     An Object-Oriented Approach
                     Neumair, TU Muenchen, Germany

                     An Inter-Association Management Knowledge
                     Update Mechanism
                     Balmisse, CNET, France


12:30 -  1:30        Lunch

 1:30 -  3:15        Session 2: Management Platforms:
                                Architectures and Concepts

                     Chair: Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD-FIRST, Berlin

                     Requirements for an Infrastructure Supporting
                     Management Applications
                     Jordaan & Dinger, IBM ENC, Germany

                     Applying the Inductive Modeling Technology
                     to Tackle the Problem of Integrated Network
                     Management
                     Abeck, Leischner, Segner, TU Muenchen, Germany

                     A Security Framework for the Information
                     Networking Architecture
                     Ferro & Mohan, Bell Comm. Res., USA


 3:15 -  3:45        Coffee and refreshments

 3:45 -  6:00        Session 3: Management Platforms:
                                Implementation and Experience

                     Chair: Gautam Kar, IBM ENC, Heidelberg

                     Integration of OSI-Based and SNMP-Based
                     Network Management Systems: an Example
                     Balazs, Beschoner, Mueller, SNI, Germany

                     Implementing a Generic Management Entity
                     Putter & Roos, University of Pretoria, South
                     Africa

                     An Experience in Building a CMISE-Based Interface
                     for Application to Application Communications
                     Chung, Bell Comm. Res., USA

                     A Network Management Platform for SONET Networks
                     Kaplan, NEC America, USA

 7:30                Get-together-party in a typical bavarian
                     restaurant downtown Munich


Tuesday, October, 13th
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 8:30 - 10:15        Session 4: Management as a Distributed
                                Processing System

                     Chair: Morris Sloman, Imperial College, London

                     A Distributed Architecture Framework for
                     Telecommunications Network Operations
                     Anderson & Natarjan, Bell Comm. Res., USA

                     Structuring Concept for Managing Networked
                     Systems
                     Becker, Alpers, Raabe, Siemens, Germany

                     Concurrency Control for Network Management
                     Transactions
                     Based on OSI's Systems Management and Transaction
                     Protocols
                     Nakai & Liu, NEC, Japan

                     Management of Distributed Applications
                     Zimmermann, University of Frankfurt, Germany


10:15 - 10:45        Coffee and refreshments

10:45 - 12:30        Panel Session: Automated Operations

                     Panel Chair: Varoozh Harakirian, IBM-Labs, La
                     Hulpe

12:30 -  1:45        Lunch

 1:45 -  4:00        Session 5: Management of Future
                                Telecommunications

                     Chair: D. N. Zuckerman, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
                     USA

                     Management Architecture for Networks of
                     the Future
                     Westphall & Assoul, Universite P. Sabatier,
                     France

                     Service Management for Integrated
                     Broadband Communications
                     Geihs & Mann, IBM ENC, Germany

                     Failed Path Restoration with Distributed
                     Control Scheme in ATM Networks
                     Kawamura, Sato, Tokizawa, NTT, Japan

                     Distributed SONET Ring Management
                     Lu & Sahin, NEC, USA


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       |                                                      |
       |        IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on           |
       |   Distributed Systems: Operations & Management       |
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       |                                                      |
       |            Organizational Information                |
       |                                                      |
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   Sponsored by International Federation of Information Processing
   (IFIP) WG 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks.
   With participation of IEEE Communications Society Committee
   on Network Operations & Management

   Hosted by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Muenchen and
   Leibniz Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
   Muenchen

                         October 12-13, 1992
                           Munich, Germany


The Surroundings
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With its 1.3 million people, Munich is a very important industrial
location, one of the largest industrial towns of the Federal
Republic of Germany. Cars, beer and electronics are its best-known
products. Its development into a stronghold of high technology has
further increased its traditional reputation as a flourishing
scientific centre (which also finds expression in the over 8700
congresses, conferences and seminars a year). Munich is also a
cultural centre. Fine buildings of every period, grand boulevards
and squares, bear imposing witness to a culture centuries old.
Art, in the museum and outside, lures millions of visitors to the
city year for year. Musical and theatrical life show a vitality
scarcely equalled elsewhere. Included among Munich's most famous
cultural attractions are the Royal Residence, the Church of Our
Lady, the Asam Church, the Nymphenburg Palace, the Deutsches Museum
being the largest technical museum in the world and the Alte
Pinakothek with its magnificent collections of Old Masters.

The Location
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The workshop will take place at Siemens Nixdorf facilities in
Muenchen-Perlach, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6. The Perlach complex is one of
the Siemens Nixdorf locations in Munich. It is an architecturally
interesting combination of low and high buildings with intermittent
open areas containing lawns, groups of trees and fountains and lies
in the south of the city of Munich. This place has direct access
to a U-Bahn and also a S-Bahn station (public transportation). We
recommend to take the S-Bahn as described below. The conference
room is the room "Forum 1/Grosser Vortragssaal" of the conference
centre. The doorman will tell you the way.

The Company
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Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG was formed in 1990 by the
merger of Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, and the Data and
Information Systems Group of Siemens AG, Munich. Siemens Nixdorf
is an independent company within the Siemens organization. With
bases in more than 45 countries and 50000 plus employees on its
payroll, the Company is the world's eighth largest computer company
and the largest universal supplier and systems integrator in the
field of data and information technology to originate in Europe.
Siemens Nixdorf offers a broad line of hardware products, from
notebook PCs to supercomputers, coupled with the services of a
software and systems house for application programs and projects
and supplemented by a comprehensive range of additional services
from management consulting to training and the management of
installed systems.

Accommodations
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the hotels NOVOTEL and
CONCORDE in Munich. The NOVOTEL is located just opposite of the
Siemens Nixdorf facilities, whereas the CONCORDE is located
downtown Munich near the Marienplatz and the Hofbraeuhaus in the
middle of the town.

             Hotel CONCORDE
             Herrnstrasse 22
             D-8000 Muenchen 22
             Phone: +49 89 - 22 45 15
             Fax: +49 89 - 228 32 82

             special rates for single room:
             DM 175,00 and DM 157,00
             (different room types);
             breakfast buffet included


             NOVOTEL MUENCHEN
             Rudolf-Vogel-Bogen 3
             D-8000 Muenchen 83
             Phone: +49 89 - 63 80 00
             Fax: +49 89 - 63 13 09

             special rate for single room:
             DM 158,00;
             breakfast buffet included

Please make your reservation directly with the hotels and do not
forget to refer to SNI/DSOM to get the special rates. You should
make your reservation as early as possible at latest until
August 24.


Transportation
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It is very expensive (about DM 100.-) to take a taxi in order to
get from the new airport of Munich to the hotels, respectively to
the Siemens Nixdorf facilities. For that reason we recommend to
take the S-Bahn (public transportation). The S-Bahn stop is in the
basement of the central airport building.

-  airport - Hotel CONCORDE

   To get from the airport to Hotel CONCORDE enter at the airport
   and take the line S8 direction "Pasing". Get off at the station
   "Isartor". From there it is a 5 minutes walk to the hotel. Back
   to the airport take the S8 direction "Flughafen Muenchen".

-  airport - NOVOTEL/Siemens Nixdorf

   To get from the airport to NOVOTEL enter at the airport and take
   the line S8 direction "Pasing". Get off at the station "Isartor"
   and take the S-Bahn line S1 direction "Kreuzstrasse" at the
   other side of the same platform. Get off at the station
   "Neuperlach Sued". From there it is a 5 minutes walk to the
   hotel, respectively to the workshop location. Back to the airport
   take the S1 direction "Freising" until station "Isartor" and
   then change to the S8 direction "Flughafen Muenchen".

-  Hotel CONCORDE - Siemens Nixdorf

   To get from Hotel CONCORDE to the Siemens Nixdorf facilities
   enter at the station "Isartor" and take the line S1 direction
   "Kreuzstrasse". Get out at the station "Neuperlach Sued". From
   there it is a 5 minutes walk to the workshop location. Back to
   the hotel take the S1 direction "Freising".


Registration
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As the workshop will be limited to about 60 to 70 participants,
register yourself as soon as possible at latest until July 24 by
faxing the filled registration form or by electronic mail. The
registration will be confirmed until July 31.

The registration fee will be DM 150.- or $100.00. It includes two
lunches, coffee and refreshment, one banquet and the conference
proceedings. Please pay the registration fees cash at the
registration office, when you are in Munich. Cards and cheques will
not be accepted.


Organization:

For further information regarding the workshop and local
arrangements, please contact:

             Karl Beschoner
             Organization Co-Chair
             Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
             Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
             D-8000 Muenchen 83
             Telephone: +49 89 636 40916
             Fax: +49 89 636 46931
             E-Mail: beschoner.muc@sni.de or
                     beschoner.muc@sni-usa.com (within USA)


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                         REGISTRATION FORM

                   THIRD IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL

                  WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS:
                 OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM '92)

            Location: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
                      Muenchen-Perlach, Germany

            Dates:    October 12-13, 1992


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Please return by fax to:   Karl Beschoner
                           Organization Co-Chair
                           Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
                           Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
                           D-8000 Muenchen 83
                           Fax: +49 89 636 46931
                           E-Mail: beschoner.muc@sni.de. or
                                   beschoner.muc@sni-usa.com

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