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ADVANCE PROGRAM SUMMARY & REGISTRATION INFO ******************************************************************** ** FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT ** ******************************************************************** Improving Global Communication Through Network Management May 14-17, 1989 The Westin Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Hosted by The MITRE Corporation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology ****************** * OVERVIEW * ****************** This symposium, a unique combination of high-level technical sessions and presentations by industry-leading vendors, will: o familiarize professionals from diverse network management backgrounds with the goals, current priorities, and plans of the many worldwide activities focusing on network management o promote detailed technological interchanges o create a forum for discussion and coordination of the complex advanced research and development needed to define the network management standards of the future o provide a framework to feed back insight about current implementations to standards developers o stimulate cooperative international efforts in various areas of network management ********************************************************* * TECHNICAL TRACKS (two parallel tracks on May 15 & 17; * * three parallel tracks on May 16) * ********************************************************* 1.Heterogeneous Network Management -- Invited Speaker: Carl Sunshine (UNISYS) Session 1A: Enterprise Management Panel 1B: Experience with Network Management 2.Integration Through Standards -- Invited Speaker: Yoshikazu Kobayashi (IBM) Session 2A: Business Requirements Session 2B: Technical Requirements 3. Management Information and Functions -- Inivted Speaker: Jeremy Tucker (Logica) Session 3A: Management Information Session 3B: Performance Management and Modeling Session 3C: Security and Dialogue Management 4. Design and Modeling -- Invited Speaker: Lev Feldkuhn (Bell Atlantic) Session 4A: Design Approaches Session 4B: Fault Management Panel 4C: Network Management: Which Model to Choose? 5. Management Architectures -- Invited Speaker: Phillip Enslow (Georgia Inst Technology) Session 5A: Telecommunication Architectures Session 5B: Multimedia Integration Session 5C: LAN Management 6. Distributed Systems Management -- Invited Speaker: Morris Sloman (Imperial College) Session 6A: International Cooperation Session 6B: Implementation and Language Issues 7. Artificial Intelligence in Network Management -- Invited Speaker: Rodney Goodman (Cal Tech) Session 7A: Expert Tools for Network Management Panel 7B: Intelligent Network Management ************************************************ * TUTORIALS (five parallel sessions on May 14) * ************************************************ Management Standards - Current Status of Work in ISO -- Chris Sluman, Jeremy Tucker, and Tony Jeffree Tools for the Performance and Fault Management of Local and Wide Area Networks -- Belinda Yung-Rubke Recent Developments in Integrated Network Security -- Harold Podell and Marshall Abrams Comparative Analysis of Existing Network Management Systems -- James Herman Management of Manufacturing Networks -- Juan Pimentel ********************** * FEATURED SPEAKERS * ********************** Vinton Cerf, Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives John Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress Lt. Gen. John Myers, Director, Defense Communications Agency John Crecine, President, Georgia Institute of Technology ******************************************** * VENDOR PRESENTATIONS - CORPORATE PATRONS * * (4 vendors/day; 30 min plenary * * presentations each; single day suite for * * each) * ******************************************** Atlantic Research Corporation Avant-Garde Computing, Inc. Boeing Computer Services, Inc. Codex Corporation Data General Corporation Digital Communications Associates, Inc. Digital Equipment Corporation International Business Machines Corporation MCI Telecommunications, Inc. NYNEX Information Systems Group OSI/NM Forum Wang Laboratories, Inc. ****************************** * REGISTRATION FEES * ****************************** TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Full registration (received before April 14, 1989): $595 (includes technical and vendor sessions, three breakfasts, two luncheons, three receptions, one banquet, the Omni Theater social event, and one copy of the proceedings) Full registration (received after April 14, 1989): $695 TUTORIAL PROGRAM: Tutorial registration (received before April 14, 1989): $200 (includes admission to one tutorial, plus that tutorial's handouts) Tutorial registration (received after April 14, 1989): $300 Copies of Tutorial Materials: $25 for each tutorial; $100 for all tutorials ************************ * FURTHER INFORMATION * ************************ For a copy of the advance program, contact: Hershey Young, IFIP Symposium, c/o National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 225, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; (301) 975-5267