Springer JNSM: Special Issue on Management of Federations and Cooperative Management

Journal of Network and Systems Management

The multi-mode, loosely-coupled, user-centric nature of modern communications and services and the diversity of operator business models means that modern end-to-end service provision frequently crosses heterogeneous management and administrative domains. Thus, management approaches that can be applied across organisational boundaries are increasingly important in a wide range of application areas. These range from algorithmic approaches which adapt to the observed behaviour of third-party systems, based on game-theoretic
approaches or other predictive models, to explicit organisational federations which adopt coherent solutions and management models to facilitate interoperability among multiple independent organisations.

Recent years have seen researchers investigate a wide range of issues relating to federated and cooperatively managed systems. For example, research in policy-based management and Service Level Agreement frameworks increasingly addressesfederated, inter-organisational
relationships. Cooperative management research focusses on predictive algorithms that can facilitate non-destructive cross-domain coordination in the absence of explicit federation agreements. Grid and Cloud computing research addresses the problem of making heterogeneous, distributed computing resources available in a flexible manner in order to offer infrastructure as a service. In the security domain, researchers develop trust management solutions on top of heterogeneous, distributed security systems. Further work in the service oriented architectures, data federation and the software engineering communities also addresses aspects relating to the negotiation, deployment and lifecycle management
of federations.

For the special issue we solicit papers presenting novel contributions in the following topic areas:

- Governance Mechanisms for federated environments
- Policy-based Management in federations
- Collaborative management, algorithmic adaptation,game theoretic approaches, predictive modelling.
- Modelling cross domain relationships, incudling Information Models, Formal Specifications, Languages for Federation
- Distributed trust management and federated security systems
- Data federation Techniques
- Semantic technologies, Semantic mapping and linked data
- Information Security in federated environments
- Management of inter-cloud federations and public/private hybrid clouds
- Grid computing management
- Federations for third party management of Home Area Network devices
- Software Engineering for Federated Systems, including Tool chains, Design by Contract, Model Driven Engineering and Design Patterns

Author Instructions

The submitted papers must be written in English and be formatted in accordance with the JNSM author instructions at:

http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10922

Prospective authors should note that is the policy of JNSM that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be previously published or be under review at  another journal or conference at any time during the review process.

Important Dates

Paper submission due:  May 15, 2012
Acceptance notification:  November 30, 2012
Camera-ready due:  March 15, 2013
Publication date:  V21N3 (September 2013)

Guest Editors

Kevin Feeney
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
kevin.feeney(at)cs.tcd.ie

Joel Fleck II
Hewlett Packard Inc., USA
joel.fleck(at)hp.com

Brendan Jennings
Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
bjennings(at)tssg.org