[IEICE-CS eNews<2026-17>][CFP] APNOMS 2026 (Submission deadline: 19 June, Extended) Call for Papers The 26th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium APNOMS 2026 Sustainable and Resilient Network Management in the AI-native Era September 9-11, 2026, Kumamoto, Japan https://apnoms.org/2026/ Sponsored by IEICE ICM, KICS KNOM Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society The Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) is a premier conference on network operations and management in the Asia-Pacific region. APNOMS meets every year and boasts a rich history of successes. It includes a three-day program of keynotes, tutorials, technical sessions, panel discussions, poster sessions, and exhibits aiming to manage networks that span computing and telecommunications areas. APNOMS 2026 encourages open discussions on technology alternatives that aim at the operations and management of current and future networks and services. APNOMS welcomes submissions based on implementation, experimentation, simulation, and analytical methods. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following items: (1) Network Management - Management of 5G/6G Networks - Management of the Future Internet - Management of IP, Optical, and SDN Networks - Management of Ad-Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks - Management of Wireless and Cellular Networks - Management of Heterogeneous Networks - Management of Converged Networks - Management of Data Centers and Clouds - Management of Vehicular Networks - Management of Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks - Management of Cognitive Networks - Management of Non-Terrestrial and Satellite Networks - Management of Quantum Networks (2) Architectures, Methods & Technologies - New Network Architectures, Models, and Protocols - Next Generation of BSS/OSS Platforms - Intelligent Management - SDN and NFV - Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing - Control Theoretic Management Approaches - Mobile Agent-Based Management - Policy-Based Management - Converged Networking Issues - SLA/QoS Management and Traffic Engineering - Network Monitoring and Measurements - Configuration and Fault Management - SNMP, NETCONF, Web Services, XML - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (3) Service Management - Internet-of-Things Management - Cyber-Physical System Management - Big Data Management - Ubiquitous Service Management - Management of Personalized Services - Services Science, Management, and Engineering - Security Management, Accounting, and Billing - Applications and Service Provisioning - Seamless Service with Roaming and Handover - Signaling for Application Sessions and Networking - Management of Bandwidth on Demand - Regulatory Issues - Blockchain Management (4) Business Management - Economic Aspects of 5G/6G and Future Internet - Next Generation BSS Platforms - SLA/SLO/SLS Management - ITIL and eTOM - ISP/ASP/CSP Management - Business Process Engineering - Customer Care and Self Operations - Management of e-Business (5) Experiences - Trial Results, Migration and Case Studies - Interoperability Issues - R&D Networks - Advances in and Federation of Testbeds Technical Session: Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers in English, which are not under review in any other conferences or journals. Submission should be in form of a PDF file of a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 6 pages, prepared in accordance with IEEE author guidelines. All presented papers in the conference are expected to be included in the proceedings of the conference as well as IEICE Proceedings Series and KICS Proceedings Series and IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and will be indexed by EI and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The copyright of accepted papers will be transferred to IEICE. A submitted paper may be accepted as a short paper (presented in a poster session). NOTE: To be published in the proceedings, for each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference at the full rate and the paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Online presentation is not permitted without an unavoidable reason such as a natural disaster. Innovation Session: APNOMS 2026 will include innovation sessions to present and discuss ongoing research, work-in-progress ideas, practical solutions, and experimental studies. Authors are requested to submit PDF documents in a special format (should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half, and must not exceed 20 annotated visuals including title and references). The sample file can be obtained at APNOMS website: https://www.ieice.org/cs/icm/apnoms/2026/manuscript.html. Innovation papers will be included in conference proceedings but will NOT be indexed by any scholarly research database. The copyright of accepted papers will belong to the author(s). The author(s) may transfer the copyright to a journal publisher if the same content or its extended version is submitted separately to a journal. In addition, it is possible to add a demonstration if you wish, please choose at the submission. Paper Submission: All submissions should go through EDAS (https://edas.info/N34956). Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 19 June 2026, Extended!! Notification of acceptance: 17 July 2026 Camera-ready paper submission: 31 July 2026 Send Your Questions to TPC Co-Chairs: Takashi Kurimoto (National institute of Informatics, Japan) tkurimoto@nii.ac.jp Myung-Sup Kim (Korea University, Korea) tmskim@korea.ac.kr Jen-Jee Chen (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) jenjee@nycu.edu.tw ======Notice====================== This is a send-only address. Please note in advance that we cannot accept your replies. If you do not need any e-mail notifications, please access to your Member Page, click "E-mail address / E-mail delivery", and complete the suspension procedure. However, even you do not desire any e-mail distribution, important notices from IEICE such as announcement of election and membership dues will be sent to you. Member Page：https://cmweb3.ieice.org/Kjn/EN/ -----------------------END----------------------