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From: "J.P. Martin-Flatin" <jp.martin-flatin@ieee.org>
To: Nikos Anerousis <nikos@voicemate.com>,
"J.P. Martin-Flatin" <jp.martin-flatin@ieee.org>
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Subject: CFP on Web-based management
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:42:56 +0200
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*** LAST CALL ***
CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Special Issue on
Web-Based Management
The use of Web technologies in network, systems, application and service
management--also known as Web-based management--has attracted a lot of
attention in the recent years. In the IP world, all major network management
platform vendors are migrating toward Web-based graphical user interfaces.
Current suggestions include to redesign entirely the managers and agents
using Java, take advantage of distributed object-oriented technologies such
as CORBA and Java RMI, base the manager-to-agent communication on HTTP, or
use XML to format and structure management data. Even in the OSI world,
especially for telecommunication switches, more and more vendors are turning
to solutions integrating CORBA and Java. What are the opportunities of Web
technologies in these two worlds? What are the principles behind the design
of Web-based management systems? How can we make such systems reliable and
scalable? What are their limitations? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using HTTP, applets, servlets, RMI, JDBC, etc. in
management applications? Topics of interest for this special issue include,
but are not limited to, the following:
* Web technologies in network, systems, service and application
management
* Information models in support of Web-based management (semantics)
* Distributed computing for Web-based management applications
* Web technologies as facilitators of integrated management
* New designs for Web-based managers and agents
* Web-based communication between managers and agents
* How to format, encode and represent management data in transit
(agent/manager, manager/manager)
* Techniques to efficiently save and retrieve management data to/from
persistent storage (e.g. how to store time series?)
* Scalability, efficiency and reliability of Web-based management
* Performance analysis of Web-based management
* Case studies of Web-based management systems
* Experiences with commercial Web-based management platforms
Instructions to Contributors:
We invite prospective authors to submit high quality papers via email to one
of the guest editors, depending on their geographic zone. Only electronic
submissions are acceptable. Please prepare the manuscripts according to the
Instructions to Contributors which can be found in any copy of the Journal,
or by visiting the JNSM Web site at <http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/>.
Guest Editors:
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, Lausanne Nikos Anerousis
(EPFL) VoiceMate.com
DSC-ICA 215 W. 95th St., Ste. 10M
1015 Lausanne New York, NY 10025
Switzerland USA
Email: jp.martin-flatin@ieee.org Email: nikos@voicemate.com
Schedule:
Manuscript due: April 30, 2000
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2000
Final Manuscript due: Sep. 30, 2000
Publication Date: 1st Quarter 2001
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(First advertised on July 29, 1999)
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