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The 7th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2003)
━ Managing Pervasive Computing and Ubiquitous Communications ━

October 1 – 3, 2003
 Fukuoka, JAPAN

Sponsored by IEICE TM, KICS KNOM
Supported by IEEE CNOM, IEEE APB, IEEE COMSOC Japan Chapter and TMF
http://www.apnoms.org/2003/

The 7th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2003) will be held in Fukuoka city of Kyushu, Japan from October 1 to 3, 2003. The theme of APNOMS 2003 is "Managing Pervasive Computing and Ubiquitous Communications". With the rapid progress in the information networking technologies supported by broadband networks, solutions for network/service operations and management play key roles for establishing our e-World environments. APNOMS 2003 will provide excellent opportunities for researchers, engineers, network planners, service providers and network operators in telecommunications to learn and share ideas, views, technologies and experiences on network/service operations and management. You are cordially invited to submit original papers for consideration to be presented at APNOMS 2003.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

Network Management Area:

·            IP Network/Service Management

·            Management of Broadband Access Network

·            Management of Mobile/Wireless Converged Networks

·            Management of DWDM, Optical Cross-connect

·            Active Network Management

·            Home Network Management

·            Management of Wireless LAN

·            End to End Network/Service Management

Business Operation Area:

·            ISP/ASP/CSP Management

·            Business Process Engineering

·            Customer Care and Self Operations

·            e-Business Management

Specific Management Function Area:

·            SLA/QoS Management

·            Security Management

 

·            Billing Management

·            Service Creation and Delivery

·            Human Factors and User Interfaces

Management Architecture and Technology Area:

·            Architecture and Modeling

·            Web/Java Based Management

·            Mobile Agent-based Management

·            Policy-driven Management

·            XML-based Management

·            Next Generation OSS Platforms

·            CORBA, SOAP, SNMP, CMIP

·            Distributed Systems Management

·            OSI Management and FCAPS

Experiences:

·            TMN Implementation

·            Experiences, Migration and Case Studies

·            Interoperability Issues

 Instructions for Authors:
 All submitted papers should be written in English. The cover page should clearly include paper title, brief abstract, list of key-words, author(s) full name(s), affiliation(s) and complete address(es), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es). Please state the name of the contact person. Paper submissions should consist of no more than 12 visuals with explanatory text accompanying each one. The format should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Please download a sample PowerPoint file from the symposium Web site and use it as a reference.
   - APNOMS 2003 paper submissions will be done electronically only.
   - Authors are requested to submit an electronic version of the paper (in Powerpoint) to the symposium Web site.

Please send any enquiry on APNOMS 2003 to TPC Co-Chairs:

 

Nobuo FUJII
NTT
1-1 Hikarino-oka Yokosuka-shi, 239-0847 JAPAN
Email: nobuo@exa.onlab.ntt.co.jp
Tel: +81 468 59 3510,  Fax: +81 468 55 1282

 

Young-Chul Shim
School of Information and Computer Engineering
Hongik University
72-1 Sangsudong, Mapogu　Seoul, 121-791, KOREA
Email: shim@cs.hongik.ac.kr
Tel: +82 2 320 1695, Fax: +82 2 320 1105

 Important Dates (tentative):
       Deadline of Receipt of Papers:             June 18, 2003 (updated)
       Notification of Acceptance Mail:          July 31, 2003
       Final Camera-Ready Papers Due:       August 31, 2003

Symposium Web Site: http://www.apnoms.org/2003/