Research arenas for system configuration Journals publishing work related to configuration and autonomics International Journal of Network Management (Wiley) Transactions on Network and Service Management Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier) Conferences Manweek 2007 LISA 2007 NOMS 2008

Special Edition of Science of Computer Programming "Science of Network and Service Management" Editors Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Olivier Festor, INRIA, France For this special edition we seek papers that address the field of network and service management in an exploratory and scientific way. Papers describing management architectures will not be accepted. without significant validation. Foundational Issues on Service Management Models of network and service behaviour Evaluation of current technologies Principles of management and their evaluation Empirical studies of management frameworks Logic and analysis of Network and Service Management Fault and Reliability studies of systems Other topics of a scientific nature Submissions should be sent to Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no by 1 december 2007.