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Management Paradigms and Technologies Towards the Internet Millennium: Hiroshi Tokunaga, Seong-Beom Kim, Satoshi Hasegawa and Tai Myung Chung APNOMS 2000, the fourth Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, was held October 11-13, 2000 in Nara, Japan. This symposium, which follows the successful APNOMS '97, APNOMS '98, and APNOMS '99, was attended by 258 researchers, developers, service providers, and vendors from 12 countries. Although APNOMS 2000 strongly reflects the Asia-Pacific region's activities on network and service management issues, it is becoming a global symposium with participants from around the world. The theme of this three-day symposium was "New Management Paradigms and Technologies Towards the Internet Millenium." Nowadays, the Internet is in widespread use in business and at home. Moreover, the integration of voice and data into one IP-based network through the development of voice over IP (VoIP) technology has changed the network architecture. At the same time, research and development continues apace on the operation and management of IP-based networks, addressing such issues as QoS measurement and control, policy management, and how to manage the integration of a network composed of elements supplied by various vendors. The migration from legacy networks to IP-based networks in terms of their operation and management also represents a significant challenge for carriers with a large legacy network. On the first day of the symposium, APNOMS 2000 participants enjoyed six tutorials on the hottest topics in the area of network operations and management. Graham Chen (CiTR, Australia) gave a tutorial on "New Trends in Telecommunications Services." Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ.,Japan) gave a tutorial on "IP over WDW Networks towards the Next-Generation Internet." Edward L. Pinnes (Telcordia, USA) gave a tutorial on "Operations and Management for Next Generation Networks." Taesang Choi (ETRI, Korea) gave a tutorial on "The Essential Component Technologies for Qos and Traffic Management in IP Networks." Cherng Yeh (Lucent, USA) gave a tutorial on "TMN Architecture Evolution for End-to-End Management of Network in th IP Era." Finally, Al Vincent (TMF, USA) gave a tutorial on "Changing Direction - The Impact of the NGOSS on the Telecom Industry." All tutorials were well attended, and there were a lot of interesting discussions between the audience and speakers. The second day started with a welcoming address from the general chair, Hiroshi Tokunaga (NTT, Japan) and was followed by two keynote speeches by distinguished invited speakers. Salah Aidarous (NEC America, USA) delivered a speech on "The Next Millenium Management Landscape." Jong-Tae Park(Kyungpook National Univ., Korea) delivered a speech "On the Evolving IP-Based Systems and Service Management." Following the keynote speeches on the second day of the symposium were special and technical presentations. The special session is the place to discuss issues while keeping our feet on the ground. Papers for this kind of topic usually are difficult to pass through the review process for technical sessions; it is also difficult to encourage submission of such papers even though they may contain important issues to bo considered. The session was chaired by Masayoshi Ejiri(Fujitsu, Japan) on the topic "Migration to New Millennium - Experience, Practice and Technology." Seven invited speakers - Alexander Kostin (Saint Petersburg State Univ., Russia), Atsunori Kubota (NTT West, Japan), Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn (Asian Inst. of Technology, Thailand), Young-Jin Sim (Korea Telecom, Korea), Mans O. Jacobsson (Telia Sweden), James L.Warner (TMF, USA), and Yuval Levy (Vertel, U.S.A) - delivered speeches. There were a lot of interesting discussions between the audience and speakers. The third day started with two keynote speeches by the distinguished invited speakers. Vijay Varadharajan (Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia) delivered a speech on "Secure Networked Computing." Kentaro Sumio (MPT, Japan) delivered a speech on "E-Japan Initiatives for the Deployment of Ultra High-Speed Network." Following keynote speeches on the third day were technical presentations. At APNOMS 2000, 34 papers were accepted for technical presentations and 13 for poster presentations. These high-quality technical papers on the latest results of research and development were presented. Technical paper and poster presentations covered topics on active network management, mobile network, service management, Java/CORBA-based management, IP network management, policy-based management and SLA, integrated network planning and management, TINA/TMN, and hot topics. APNOMS 2000 participants were also treated to two days of demo exhibitions on the latest tools and systems in network operations and management. There were 13 exhibitions by ETRI, Fujitsu, GAURI Info-Comm, HP, Korea Telecom, NEC, NTT-AT, NTT Comware, NTT Soft, Sumisho Net Solutions, Sumitomo Electric Industries, and Vertel. APNOMS 2000 ended its three days with a very interesting distinguished experts panel on the topic of "New Management Paradigms and Technologies Towards the Internet Millenium." The panel was chaired by James W. Hong (Postech, Korea), and the panelists were Salah Aidarous (NEC America, USA), Graham Chen (CiTR, Australia), Seong-Boem Kim (Korea Telecom, Korea), Mana O. Jacobsson (Telia, Sweden), and Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ. Japan). Overall, APNOMS 2000, was a very successful symposium in terms of the number of participants, the quality of technical and poster presentations, the number and quality of exhibitions, the visionary keynote speeches and special session speeches, and finally, lively discussions between attendess and presenters. APNOMS 2001 is planned to be held in autumn 2001 in Australia. |