3rd Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended Deadline for Submissions: March 10 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 --------------- 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 ---------------------- 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 ---------- All submissions should be sent by email in postscript or pdf form to smw4@csd.uwo.ca with the subject line "SMW4 Paper Submission: ," where 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 ------ 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 --------------- Papers, panels, and extended abstracts due: February 22, 2000 -- Extended to March 10 Author notification: April 1, 2000 Camera ready copy: April 28, 2000 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- 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