The computer networks are making their mark on our daily life successfully. The researchers in the ubiquitous systems domain are producing valuable solutions in order to make the vision of Mark Weiser a reality. This innovation brings along with the fruitful benefits, ever growing network size and functional complexity, the huge maintenance costs, and irresolvable bugs and congestion problems. The complexity has also crept into the middleware part of the networks and is increasing that affects the performance of services running on top of the network. The Autonomic Computing provides many creative solutions in the form of self management that is cheaper, scalable, and trustworthy for network management.

A lot of people believe that the success of internet was triggered by the presence of Domain Naming Service and the applications that were built on of top of it. This converged effort gave rise to the killer applications like electronic mail, instant messaging etc. The wireless sensor network industry tried to follow this model of market penetration but with very little success that came in the form of isolated successes i.e. smart phones, toys, and miscellaneous gadgets. The wireless sensor network industry is investing resources in a Sensor Naming System (SNS) that could utilize the benefits from the semantic web domain to form sensor-based intelligent applications. The convergence issues on such networks, context related issues, privacy, security, data integrity, and issues related to entity lifecycle management gain central attention and that is what we envisage to discuss in this workshop.

Social Networks have attracted attention from all corners of the world. People from thin clients sending data in various formats can create issues like data duplication issues in the circumstances where a lot of people report about one incident or convergence of reports of isolated incidents by different people, data synchronization among various data servers, repository adaptation (in the other words called repository freshening), and context assimilation issues shall be among the topics of interest.

The WWW has clearly demonstrated the socio-economical potential of enabling a global decentralized network of documents, connected by hyperlinks, and services built on top of this infrastructure. In a short period of time, we have witnessed how the WWW has had a remarkable impact on our personal, social and professional lives. So much is the speed of evolution that the idea of third generation of web is being tailored in the research labs around the world. We in this workshop would like to initiate a discussion over the challenges web 3.0 could face with emphasis on the use of computer networks and how the development in computer networks industry can benefit the third generation of WWW.

The International Workshop on Autonomic Networks and Services is a forum to discuss the applications of autonomic computing in networks like wireless sensor network, social networks, Web 3.0 applications, research reports about research and technology review, visionary papers about future directions for autonomic network and service architectures, and reports about development experiences of autonomic network management solutions. The technical program of ANS2010 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions.

Scope:

The ANS2010 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures, and technological designs to enable manageable network, service, and mobility proliferation in Ubiquitous Networks. ANS2010 intends to set high standards for the future by soliciting original, creative, and practical ideas in the domain of autonomic network and service management.

Topics include but are not limited to the following: 

  • - Autonomic Network Management Architectures

  • - Cross Discipline Inspired Network Management Solutions

  • - Preemptive Fault Diagnostics

  • - Implementation Experiences of Middleware for Ubiquitous Systems

  • - Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks

  • - Management of NGN/4G networks and services

  • - Management of Service Oriented Architectures

  • - Middleware for the management of mobile multimedia services

  • - Middleware support for seamless mobility of multimedia services

  • - Multi-service/multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management

  • - Cross-layer management

  • - Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks

  • - Management of service delivery platforms

  • - Management of content distribution networking

  • - Multi-point and multicast service management

  • - Pricing, accounting, and billing for ubiquitous network management services

  • - Self-* properties of network management and mobile networks and services

  • - Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning

  • - Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks

  • - End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks

  • - Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services

  • - Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks

  • - Data management issues in social networks through network intelligence

  • - Sensor Naming Service (SNS) based solutions for wireless sensor network management

  • - Novel extensions and implementation experiences of Service Oriented Architectures

  • - Context, Its mobility, conflict management, context Merging and Splitting

The ANS2010 proceedings shall be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (IEEE CPS). The IEEE CPS publishes high quality research reports that are indexed by INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. The selected papers among those presented in the workshop shall be invited to submit the extended versions of their research papers in the special issues of renowned journals.