[nmrg] [WIN2024 - Workshop at IEEE NetSoft 2024] Call for Papers

[Davide Borsatti <[e-mail]>]

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CALL FOR PAPERS


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4th International Workshop on Intent-based Networking

*WIN 2024*

In conjunction with IEEE NetSoft 2024, St. Louis, USA

http://adda-association.org/win-2024/Home.html

Intent Based Networking (IBN) aims at technology-agnostic, fast and robust interaction between network infrastructure management systems and their users, in order to automate and speed up the deployment and lifecycle of applications. IBN as such covers mechanisms to recognize, understand and augment intents defining service or operational requests, so as to ensure their fulfillment, with the support of reliable system feedback enabling their execution within the expected quality limits.

The concept of IBN appeared in the 2010’s with a focus on automated policy configuration. IBN now reaches out to OTT applications deployed on multiple and heterogeneous networks. IBN solutions do not aim at covering all applications and the entire network. Instead, they are deemed to run in a well-defined network scope and associated knowledge domains. That said, IBN solutions need to have enough flexibility to span and exchange with connected domains.

The goal of this workshop is to gather research and experiments from industry, academia, and standards, to get a sense of where we stand, what needs to be addressed and what should be explored. To this end, the workshop will cover IBN aspects of all domains including applications, concepts, lifecycle, challenges, architectures, modeling, instantiation, robustness, etc.

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal, to EDAS<https://edas.info/login.php?rurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9lZGFzLmluZm8vbmV3UGFwZXIucGhwP2M9MzIxNzk=>. To submit a paper, you need to have an EDAS account. Signup to create EDAS account, if need be.

Technical papers must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format and not exceed 6 pages (without references).

Accepted papers will be included in IEEE NetSoft 2024 proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore library.

Only PDF files are accepted. Submissions not meeting the above guidelines will be rejected without other consideration. The camera-ready version of accepted papers will have to follow the guidelines for publication in IEEE Xplore.

Authors of accepted papers must present their papers at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper.

Topics of interest include and are not limited to:

●        IBN concepts, architectures, and frameworks

●        IBN enabling techniques: knowledge graphs, natural languages understanding, policy refinement, feedback control loops, smart telemetry, etc.

●        IBN support by machine learning and artificial intelligence

●        IBN applications and use cases, including scenarios combining digital infrastructures and vertical industries

●        IBN proof-of-concepts, experimentations; report on field trials and real-world deployments

●        IBN and digital twins

●        IBN implementations, tools, and user interface design

●        IBN applications for 5G, beyond-5G and 6G networks

●        IBN and cybersecurity

●        Intent modeling, representation, languages, and intent translation techniques

●        Intent and intent-related information models (policies and services)

●        Intent recognition, recommendation, and abstraction techniques

●        Intent assurance and assessment

●        Availability, resiliency, performance, trust, and security considerations in IBN

●        Interfaces and API for intent based systems

●        Recent advances in standards and open source


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IMPORTANT DATES

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Workshop paper submission deadline: April 05, 2024

Workshop paper acceptance notification: April 26, 2024

Camera-ready paper submission deadline: May 03, 2024

Workshop date: June 24 or June 28, 2024


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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Organizing Committee of WIN'2024


General co-chairs

Molka Gharbaoui

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Eric Renault

ESIEE Paris, France

TPC co-chairs

Jaehoon Paul Jeong

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Marc Bruyère

Institute of Innovation Research Lab, Japan

Publicity co-chairs

Barbara Martini

Universitas Mercatorum, Italy

Davide Borsatti

University of Bologna

Anubhab Banerjee

Nokia, Germany

Publication chair

Molka Gharbaoui

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Web chair

Eric Renault

ESIEE Paris, France