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The 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations & Management (IPOM 2006) will be held October 23-25, 2006 in Dublin, Ireland. The workshop is sponsored by the by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM).

SCOPE OF THE IPOM WORKSHOP

The IPOM 2005 is the sixth in a series of dedicated events to Operations and Management in IP-based networks. Building on the success of the previous events, IPOM 2006 focuses on complexity of interoperability between networks and service providers, the performance versus costs in operating the IP-based networks, and the OM challenges in next generation networks (NGN) and related seamless service provision. Also issues related to Fixed- Mobile Convergence and the emerging IP Multimedia System (IMS) are of prime interest. The overall theme of ManWeek 2006 is the use of autonomic principles applied to the IP Operations & Management domain.

PAPER 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Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences.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 IPOM 2006. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to IPOM 2006. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports):

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

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

PROCEEDINGS

The IPOM 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 IPOM 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.