Services Management in Intelligent Networks - Report on DSOM 2000

DSOM 2000, the Eleventh IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on "Distributed Systems:
Operations and Management" followed a series of annual meetings, the latest of which
took place in Zurich, Switzerland (DSOM’99) [1], Delaware, USA (DSOM'98) [2], and
Sydney, Australia (DSOM'97) [3]. DSOM is a single-track workshop of the management
research community. The workshop traditionally stresses interaction and encourages
active participation.
DSOM 2000 was held at the Thompson Conference Center, the University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, USA from December 4 to 6, 2000. Seventy (70) participants
attended the event. It was sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society with technical
co-sponsorship by IFIP Working Group 6.6, and was supported by IBM Research and
Tivoli Systems.
For technical paper sessions, 65 submissions had been received, out of which 21 were
selected for presentation, and are published in the workshop proceedings [4]. In addition,
19 short papers on work-in-progress had been received, of which 12 were selected for
presentation in two special sessions. The submissions were from 14 countries, and the
participants were from both industry and academia. The program was structured into an
opening keynote session, 7 technical paper sessions, 2 work-in-progress sessions, and a