Final Call for Papers

              Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on 
             Distributed Systems: Operations & Management 
                           DSOM'99

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, TIK, Zürich, Switzerland
                      October 11-13, 1999
                  http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/dsom99

The Tenth Annual IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on "Distributed 
Systems: Operations and Management" (DSOM'99) will be hosted by the 
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory TIK of the Swiss 
Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zürich. DSOM'99 is sponsored 
by the IFIP Working Group 6.6 with technical co-sponsorship by the 
IEEE Communications Society. DSOM'99 follows a series of highly 
successful meetings, the latest of which took place in Delaware, 
USA (DSOM'98), Sydney, Australia (DSOM'97), and L'Aquila, Italy 
(DSOM'96).

The DSOM workshops focus on the latest advancements in operations 
and management in networked environments and discuss the impact of 
emerging computing and networking technologies on management. Of
specific interest to DSOM'99 will be the current developments in
the field of active and programmable networks.

The workshop will be limited to approximately 100 participants and 
will follow a single track program, in order to allow for in-depth 
discussions and interaction among workshop participants. The 
workshop proceedings will be published by Springer's series of 
"Lecture Notes in Computer Science." 

TOPICS
Authors are invited to submit research and experience papers. 
Topics of interest include: 
        - Management of Active and Programmable Networks
        - Mobile and Intelligent Agent Technology in Management
        - Telecommunication Services Management 
        - Interdomain Management
        - Management of Mobile Systems and Networks 
        - Management of the Internet and Internet Services
        - Enabling Management Platforms: CORBA, Java, Web, etc.
        - Integration of Network Control and Management
        - Monitoring, Event Handling, and Fault Management of 
          Networks and Services
        - Policy-Based Management
        - Security Management 
        - Management Aspects of Service Pricing and Electronic 
          Commerce

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or 
experiences. They should be full papers and be no longer than 5000 
words (less than 12 single-spaced pages). Submissions must include 
a cover page in ASCII format, containing the title, author name(s) 
and affiliation(s), the complete address (telephone, fax, email) of 
the corresponding author, and an abstract (max 150 words) followed 
by up to 5 keywords. 

Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to DSOM'99.

Authors are requested to submit papers in electronic PDF or 
Postscript format. Instructions for electronic submissions are 
available at the following URL: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/dsom99.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
        April 1, 1999:  Submission of Full Papers 
        June 15, 1999:  Notifications of Acceptance
        August 1, 1999: Camera-ready Papers Due Date

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
Conference Chair: 
        Rolf Stadler, Columbia University, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs: 
        Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland
        Rolf Stadler, Columbia University, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to include) 
        Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
        Nikos Anerousis, ATT Research, USA
        Raouf Boutaba, University of Toronto, Canada
        Seraphin B. Calo, IBM Research, USA	
        Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland
        Rob Davison, BT, UK
        Kurt Geihs, University of Frankfurt
        German Goldszmidt, IBM Research, USA
        Sigmund Handelman, IBM Research, USA
        Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany
        Joseph Hellerstein, IBM Research, USA
        Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
        Gabriel Jakobson, GTE Laboratories, USA
        Pramod Kalyanasundaram, Lucent Technologies, USA
        Ryutaro Kawamura, NTT, Japan
        Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
        Thomas Magedanz, IKV++ GmbH, Germany
        Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK
        Kenneth Lutz, Bellcore, USA
        Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA
        Branislav Meandzija, General Instrument Corporation, USA
        George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK
        Pradeep Ray, University W. Sydney, Australia
        Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK
        Jürgen Schönwälder, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
        Roberto Saracco, CSELT, Italy
        Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA
        Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil
        Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany
        Simon Znaty, ENST-Bretagne, France
        Douglas Zuckerman, Bellcore, USA