8:00          Opening Remarks

                Alan Leddy, Head of Research, Ericsson Ireland

8:10          Keynote Address:

                "Application of Intelligent Systems in Communication Service Providers Operation"

                Detlef Nauck, Chief Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation Centre, BT Group CTO

                Session chair: Alan Leddy, Head of Research, Ericsson Ireland

9:10          Policy-based Systems (Part 1)

                Session Chair: Professor Gerard Parr, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland

                "Policy-Based Autonomic Replication for Next Generation Network Management Systems"

                Cormac Doherty and Neil Hurley (School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland)

                 "On the use of Policies for Ambient Networks Management"

                 Carlos Kamienski, Joseane Fidalgo, Djamel Sadok, Jennifer Lima, Leonardo Pereira (Universidade Federal

                 de Pernambuco, Brazil) and Börje Ohlman, Johan Nielsen (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

10:00         Coffee Break

10:30         Policy-based Systems (Part 2)

                 Session Chair: Dr Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

                 "Policy-based Management for Resource-Specific Semantic Services"

                 David Lewis, John Keeney, Declan O’Sullivan (Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin)

                 "The Omega Architecture: Towards Adaptable, Self-Managed Networks"

                 Javier Baliosian, Franciose Sailhan, Ann Devitt, Anne-Marie Bosneag (Network Management Research

                 Centre, Ericsson, Ireland)

11:30         Panel: "Toward Self-Managed Networks?"

                 Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada

                 Invited speakers:

                 David Bartlett, IBM Corporation, USA

                 Bruno Klauser, Cisco, Switzerland

                 Alan Leddy, Ericsson, Ireland

                 Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK 

12:30         Lunch

13:30         Keynote Address:

                 John Hopprich, Sr. Manager, Network Management Technology Group, CTO Office, Cisco Systems, San Jose USA

                 Session chair: Alan Leddy, Director of Research, Ericsson Ireland

14:30         Configuration Management

                 Session Chair: Professor Geng-Sheng Kuo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China

                 "Transaction-based Configuration Management for Mobile Networks"

                 Henning Sanneck, Christoph Schmelz (Siemens AG, Communications, Mobile Networks) and Alan Southall,

                 Joachim Sokol, Christian Kleegrewe, Christoph Gerdes (Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Information &

                 Communication)

                 "Self-Organization of Open Complex Distributed Systems"

                 Huaglory Tianfield (School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom)

                 "Orchestrating Computing Objects Using Web-Services Technologies Intel IT Proof-of-Concept"

                 Guy Yohanan, Jay Hahn-Steichen, Jim Hobbs, Jackson He, Intel Corporation

15:45         Coffee Break

16:10         Performance Management

                 Session Chair: Jarle Hulaas, EPFL, Switzerland

                 "Pattern-based Management in Dynamic Wireless Networks"

                 Zoltan Lajos Kis (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) and Johan Nielsen

                 (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

                 "PFR: A Distributed Preemption Strategy for Improved QoS in Multi-Class Networks"

                 Fahad Rafique Dogar, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Shahab Munir Baqai (Department of Computer Science and

                 Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

17:00         Workshop Close