[sigcomm] Call for Papers: Second SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet-06)

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Subject: Call for Papers:   Second SIGCOMM 2006 Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet-06)


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Today's IP networks are extensively instrumented for collecting a
wealth of different types of data including traffic (e.g., packet or
flow level traces), control (e.g., router forwarding tables, BGP and
OSPF updates) and management (e.g., fault, SNMP traps) data. The
different measurements often exhibit complex interrelationships and
their underlying structure can provide a wealth of information for
improving our understanding of network problems and facilitate network
management and operations. Suitable methodologies, tools and
techniques are needed to process and analyze the vast amount of
primarily unstructured measured data and extract structures,
relationships, and "higher level knowledge" embedded in it, and
use this information to aid network management and operations. An
important question is how advances in fields such as data mining,
machine learning, and statistics can be brought to bear on this
important problem of information mining for network management. Recent
research efforts e.g., in anomaly detection, characterization and
control are showing the potential of such an inter-disciplinary
approach.

The goal of this workshop is to explore new directions in network data
mining and root cause analysis techniques and tools for network
monitoring, management, and remediation. The workshop will provide a
venue for researchers and practitioners from the networking
protocols/systems, data mining, machine learning, and statistics
communities, to get together and collaboratively approach this problem
from their respective vantage points.


The workshop solicits original/position/work-in-progress papers on the
application of data mining, machine learning and statistical
techniques to solve network management and operation problems such as
network reliability and performance, security, traffic engineering and
control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

                * Collection, storage & access infrastructure: platform
instrumentation (e.g. multi- modal, multi-resolution sensors),
collection techniques (e.g. event sampling, filtering, aggregation,
etc.), storage and access (e.g. retention policy, indexing techniques
etc.).  

      * Network data analytics techniques & tools: network stream
mining, network graph mining, micro-clustering, temporal and
statistical correlation, causality tracking, machine learning.

      * Applications to network operations & management: network
problem determination, network reliability and performance, root-cause
analysis, security, emerging phenomenon detection (e.g. DDoS,
virus/worm, spam etc.), traffic classification.

Of particular interest are (i) new solution techniques as well as
applications of existing techniques from data mining, machine learning
and statistics to IP network problems, (ii) experiences with the use
of such techniques for IP networks, and (iii) open networking problems
and challenges that would benefit from the use of such techniques.
Particularly welcomed are papers that bring out interesting and novel
ideas at an early stage in their development. Selected papers will be
forward-looking, with impact and implications for both operational
networks and ongoing or future research.


Submission Instructions

Papers should be at most 6 pages long, in standard ACM format
(single-spaced, double column, at least 10pt font), and in either
postscript or pdf format only. Author names, affiliations, contact
information, paper title and paper abstract.  should also be entered
in ascii format at the submission website.  Submit papers via the
MineNet-06 submission site: (Link TBA). Papers will be reviewed single
blind.  Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their
work at the workshop.


Important Dates 

Paper Registration Deadline: April 21, 2006, 11.59 PM PST (Pacific
Standard Time)

Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2006, 11.59 PM PST (Pacific
Standard Time)

Notification Deadline: May 29, 2006

Camera Ready Deadline: June 16, 2006

Workshop Date:  September 15, 2006



Workshop Co-Chairs

Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs-Research (sen at research.att.com) 

Sambit Sahu, IBM Research (sambits at us.ibm.com)


Program Committee 

Graham Cormode, Lucent Bell Labs

Mark Crovella, Boston University

Michalis Faloutsos, U.C. Riverside

Anja Feldmann, T.U. Munchen

Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research Berkeley

Patrick Haffner, AT&T Research

Hani Jamjoom, IBM Research

Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology

Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers

Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Cambridge

Matthew Roughan, Univ. of  Adelaide, Australia

 Kave Salamatian, LIP6, France

Dawn Song, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Research

Patrick Thiran, EPFL Switzerland

ZhiLi Zhang, University of Minnesota