Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Smart Vertical Systems in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era

• Smart Cities

• Smart Grid

• Smart Homes

• Cyber‐Physical Systems

• Internet of Things

• 5G

• Social Networks

• Applications and case studies

Software‐Defined Networking (SDN),Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

• Network virtualization

• Control plane programmability

• Data plane programmability

• Management & Orchestration (MANO)

• Service Function Chaining

• Protocols, languages and frameworks

• Open source networking (ONOS, CORD, ODL, ONAP, OSM, OVS, DPDK, etc.)

• Cloud native networking

• Case studies and practical deployments

Technologies Enabling Smart Management.

• Management with Big Data

• Management with AI, Deep Learning

• Data, information, and semantic modeling

• Message and software buses

• Middleware, Mobile agents, Protocols

• Software engineering for clouds

• Software product lines

• Virtualization

• Web services

Security Management

• Intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, intrusion response

• Network security

• Security for peer‐to‐peer and overlay networks

• Security for smart X and large systems and critical infrastructures

• Privacy and anonymity

• Vulnerability management

• Early warning

Network Management & Operational Experience

• Ad‐hoc networks

• Automotive and Vehicular Networks

• Big Data in and for management

• Broadband access networks

• Cognitive Radio networks

• Data Centers

• e‐Maintenance

• Future Internet

• Heterogeneous networks

• Home networks

• M2M networks

• OSS/BSS development

• Overlay networks

• Personal area networks

• Sensor networks

• Wireless & mobile networks

Service Management

• Business management

• Clouds

• Data center management

• Data service management

• Hosting

• Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service

• IT service management

• Managed service provisioning

• Multimedia service management

• OTT service management

• Virtualized infrastructure management

Functional areass

• Billing, Accounting

• Configuration and Deployment

• Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting

• Fault management

• Energy‐efficiency/green management

• Service Assurance

• Service Fulfillment

• Service Level Management

• Security Management

Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

• Control theory

• Data collection and aggregation

• Data mining, Machine learning

• Design and simulation

• Economic/finance theories

• Experimental approaches

• Optimization theory

• Probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory

• Risk management

• Software engineering methodologies

• Visualization

Management approaches

• Autonomic and self‐management

• Best practices

• Centralized management

• Distributed management

• Integrated management

• Management architectures

• Organizational aspects

• Policy‐based management

• Process oriented management

• IT service management (ITSM)

• Process engineering and frameworks (ITIL, CobIT, RiskIT, ValIT)