Conference Topics

Authors are invited to submit papers on the following topics, including related fields:

Network and service management

• Wireless networks (adhoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, ...)
• Internet of things
• Smart cities
• Smart grids
• Cyber-physical networks
• Overlay, grid and virtual networks
• Big data Analytics
• Software defined networks
• Data centers and clouds (Iaas, Paas and SaaS)
• Content delivery (P2P, CDN, ICN, ...)
• Social networks
• Future Internet

Management functions

• Intrusion detection
• Protection of infrastructures and services
• Security management
• Configuration management
• Accounting of systems, services and behaviors
• Economic traffic management
• Service provisioning
• Resilience of management infrastructures and services
• Privacy and management data
• Quality of service and experience

Techniques and Methodologies

• Autonomic and self-management
• Cognitive management
• Distributed monitoring and correlation
• Risk management
• Knowledge plane design and deployment
• P2P-based management
• Modeling of management technologies and procedures
• Flow based management
• Scalability of management infrastructures
• Experimental studies

Conference Paper Submission

Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission must be written in English and will be limited to 12 pages, references excluded, 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. Submit to the AIMS 2015 conference now.

PhD Workshop Submission

The PhD student workshop is open to both junior PhD (max 2 years) and prospective PhD students. Authors are invited to submit short papers (4 pages excluding references, written in English and in LNCS 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 will be evaluated based on the proposed idea, methodology and foreseen impact. Authors of the papers should only be the student and his/her advisor(s). Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS 2015 proceedings. Submit to the PhD workshop now.

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.

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.

Deadlines

• January 16, 2015, February 6, 2015: Paper registration deadline (extended)
• January 23, 2015, February 6, 2015: Paper submission deadline (extended)
• March 11, 2015: Notification of acceptance
• April 1, 2015: Camera-ready papers due
• June 22 - 25, 2015: AIMS 2015 conference