The 18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium

APNOMS (Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) has been a premier conference on network operations and management in the Asia Pacific region. APNOMS 2016 is sponsored by IEICE Technical Committee on Information Communication Management (ICM) and the KICS Committee on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). APNOMS (Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) has been a premier conference on network operations and management in the Asia Pacific region. APNOMS 2016 is sponsored by IEICE Technical Committee on Information Communication Management (ICM) and the KICS Committee on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). APNOMS meets every year, and boasts a rich history of successes. It includes a full three-day program of keynotes, tutorials, technical sessions, innovation sessions, panel discussions, poster sessions, and exhibits that focus on managing networks that span the computing and telecommunications areas.

APNOMS 2016 is the 18th in the series, following the successful APNOMS'97 (Seoul) to APNOMS 2015 (Busan). Our targets are enlarging from network management to total system management, business management and so on. We are proud that APNOMS has been encouraging the industrial activities and the academic activities in these fields.

APNOMS 2016 mainly focus on the new trend of softwarized infrasctracture, which enables a flexible and dynamic system evolution. The management will be more important in this trend.

APNOMS 2016 will be held in Kanazawa, Japan. We are cordially inviting you to submit papers for technical session, poster session, innovation session, and special session. Also, we invite you to submit tutorial proposal on recently advanced topics.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Kanazawa.