Chair: Marcus Brunner
D-69115 Heidelberg
Germany
Dr Marcus Brunner is chief researcher at the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1999. He got his M.S. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 1994. Aside from the involvement in different national and international projects, his primary research interests include network architectures (fixed and mobile), programmability in networks, network and service management. He is a member of the network management research community with being in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of many network management conferences such as NOMS, IM, DSOM, IPOM, etc. E.g., he was TPC co-chair of NOMS’08. Also in the networking area he is in the Organization and Technical Program Committees of major conferences such as IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, etc. He is currently ICC’09 symposium chair on Next Generation Networks and ICC’10 symposium chair on Communication Software and Services Symposium. He is in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), and the Journal on Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Finally, he is secretary of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Activities Council (TAC), secretary of the IEEE ComSoc technical committee on Network Operation and Management (CNOM), and member of the IEEE ComSoc Nomination and Election Committee.
Vice-Chair: George Pavlou
London
WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom
George Pavlou is Professor of Communication Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK where he leads research activities in networking and network/service management. Before re-joining UCL in the beginning of 2008, he was for ten years (1998-2007) Professor of Communication and Information Systems in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK. He holds a Diploma (MEng equivalent) in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, UCL. At both Surrey and UCL he established and led highly successful research teams. His research interests focus on networking, network management and service engineering, including aspects such as network dimensioning, traffic engineering, quality of service management, ad hoc/mesh/sensor networks, policy-based systems, autonomic networking, multimedia service control and object-oriented communications middleware. He has been instrumental in a number of European and UK research projects that produced important results and has contributed to standardization activities in ISO, ITU-T and the IETF. Prof. Pavlou is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Communications, IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials and the Springer Journal of Network and System Management. He has been the technical program co-chair of the 7th IFIP/IEEE Integrated Management Symposium (IM 2001) and of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008).
Technical Program Chair: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
Agronomia
91501-970
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville is an associate professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He has served as a TPC member (2003-2008), General Co-Chair (2004), and Steering Committee member (2005-2008) for the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBC/LARC SBRC). He’s a previous executive director of the Brazilian National Laboratory on Computer Networks (LARC) and chair of the Special Group on Networks and Distributed Systems of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Currently, he is member of the Brazilian Internet Committee (CBG.br). He has been servinf as a TPC member for NOMS, IM, DSOM, LANOMS, and APNOMS. Lisandro has served as TPC co-chair for DSOM 2007 and is future TPC co-chair for NOMS 2010.
Secretary: Brendan Jennings
Carriganore
Co Waterford
Ireland
Brendan Jennings, BEng, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow with the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, in Ireland. His current research interests include autonomic network management, charging and billing, performance management, and digital ecosystems. He has acted as co-chair of MMNS 2006 and MACE 2007 and regularly serves on the technical programme committees of a number of network management related conferences and workshops. He has published widely in international journals and conference proceedings and contributed to the work of standards bodies ETSI, FIPA, and the TM-Forum.