Call for Papers
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***New date for submissions is April 3, 2000***
IEEE 4th International Workshop on Systems Management
(Theme: Exploitation of Data Mining and Visualization Age)
Montreal Quebec, Canada
June 28-30, 2000
This workshop is the fourth in a series of highly successful forums for the
discussion of research in the area of systems management. Previous
workshops
have been held in Los Angeles, California, Toronto, Ontario, and Newport,
RI.
This year the scope of this workshop is mining, visualization, management,
and acquisition of data for network and systems management. With the
widespread adoption of standards for data collection (e.g., SNMP in
data networks CMIP in telecommunications networks) and the growing
acceptance of technologies for information modeling (e.g., UML, XML, and
CIM),
the next challenge for network and systems management is interpreting the
data.
These interpretations should be task oriented, such as for problem
detection,
problem diagnosis, and planning. The purpose of this workshop is to bring
together researchers with in-depth knowledge of data interpretation and
presentation to focus on challenges of network and systems management.
These challenges include: heterogeneous data semantics, dealing with large
data
volumes, noisely data, high dimensional data, dearth of labelled data for
supervised learning, and the exploitation of underlying structure
(e.g., based on network topologies). To aid in our objective,
several data sets will be provided in advance of the workshop, along with
some background about the kinds of information that should be extracted.
Workshop participants are encouraged to submit papers (or extended
abstracts)
that apply their techniques to these data.
The URL for our site is http://www.csd.uwo.ca/SMW4.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
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Three kinds of participation are possible. The first are presenters of
full papers that fall within the topic areas considered by this workshop.
The
second are those who report on the results of mining and/or visualizing
network and systems management data made available for this workshop, which
can be found under Dataset Information at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/SMW4/.
This data has been provided by Cooperative Association for Internet Data
Analysis (CAIDA). Also encouraged is participation by individuals
seeking information on recent advances in the application of data mining
and visualization to network and systems management.
An award will be presented to the best paper that provides the best insight
into the analysis (visualisation or patterns) of the skitter data
(please see "Dataset Information" at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/SMW4/).
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the area of submission.
Individuals presenting the results of analyses of the data sets provided by
this workshop should submit an extended abstract summarizing their
methodology
and results. All accepted contributions (including extended abstracts) will
be
eligible for publication in the bound proceedings of the workshop. At
least
one of the authors of each paper must register for the workshop to present
the paper.
Papers are to be submitted in English. The cover page should include
paper title, author(s) full name, affiliations, complete address(es),
telephone number(s), and electronic mail address(es). Full-length papers
should have a brief abstract and be no longer than 12 pages (6,000 words),
including references and figures.
Extended abstracts should be in the format of an extended abstract that is
no
longer than 2 pages (1,000 words), excluding figures.
Proposals for panel discussions are also solicited. Panels are scheduled
for 1.5 hours. Proposals should specify the topic, panel chair, and
participants. Please include a two page abstract that highlights key
points
for discussion and areas of controversy that will be addressed.
SUBMISSION
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All submissions should be sent by email
in postscript or pdf form to smw4@csd.uwo.ca with the subject
line "SMW4 Paper Submission: <file name>," where <file name>
indicates the compression used if any (e.g., paper.ps.gz).
If electronic submission is not possible,
please submit 4 paper copies to the following address:
Professor Hanan Lutfiyya
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario CANADA N6A 5B7
TOPICS
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Application of data mining algorithms to network and systems management
Scalable and effective visualizations for management tasks
Efficient techniques for on-line pattern recognition (e.g., for detecting
performance problems and security intrusions)
Scalable architectures for distributed data mining and visualization
Case studies of data mining and visualization in systems and network
management
Agent technologies for building distributed mining and visualization
applications
Information models that aid in mining and visualizing network systems
management data
IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers, panels, and extended abstracts due: April 3, 2000
Author notification: April 21, 2000
Camera ready copy: May 10, 2000
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CHAIR
Hanan Lutfiyya
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Ontario
hanan@csd.uwo.ca
VICE CHAIRS:
Paul J. Brusil
SMD
35 Brackenbury Lane
Beverly, Massachusetts, USA 01915-3821
brusil@snad.ncsl.nist.gov
Joseph L. Hellerstein
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, New York, USA
hellers@us.ibm.com
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