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The 17th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2006) will be held October 23-25, 2006 in Dublin, Ireland. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

SCOPE OF THE DSOM WORKSHOP

The major theme of the DSOM 2006 workshop is the management of large scale systems. Such systems are becoming a reality, including such systems as: large sensor networks, server farms, distributed content provider networks, IP and telecommunications networks. Scalability issues and their impact on the management plane are common among all such infrastructure, and the existing management approaches are largely inadequate for emerging large scale and complex systems.

The ambitious goal of DSOM 2006 is to facilitate the sharing of a first research vision on scalable network management paradigms for large scale service and network infrastructures. Rethinking network and service management from a scalability perspective and redefining what management paradigms and approaches are adequate, are the main challenges of DSOM 2006.

Research papers addressing scalable network and service management techniques for large scale management are particularly encouraged for submission at DSOM 2006.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

SUBMISSION

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2006. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2006. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), stricly in LNCS format (see below):

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions.

PROCEEDINGS

The DSOM 2006 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

The best papers of DSOM will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM.