[hpc-announce] IEEE NetSoft 2025 - PhD Symposium - Call for Papers

Tue Feb 25 06:50:04 CST 2025

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                                  Call for Papers

                          IEEE Netsoft 2025 PhD Symposium

                       in conjunction with IEEE NetSoft 2025
                                  23-27 June 2025
                                 Budapest, Hungary
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                                  Important Dates
                         Submission deadline: April 3, 2025
                          Notification date: May 9, 2025
                            Camera ready: May 15, 2025

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Objectives

The spirit of the PhD symposium is to offer an opportunity for students,
currently performing a PhD in the scientific scope of the Netsoft
conference,
as specified in the call for papers, to present the advancement of their
research work and collect tailored feedback from experts of the Netsoft
community. As such, expected submissions must be issued by ongoing or very
recently defended PhD students. The PhD symposium clearly expects
submissions
which summarize the PhD scientific activities at a given advancement stage.
As
such, they must not overlap with traditional scientific papers presented as
long or short papers in conferences and workshops.

Since the relevant scientific aspects evolve according to a PhD advancement,
two types of submissions are considered in the PhD symposium, as described
below.

EARLY STAGE PHD

Expected contribution: Early stage PhD submissions are welcome with papers
describing the general context of the PhD activity and the locks it aims at
eventually overcoming. A synthetic but comprehensive state of the art of the
field must be provided and the limits of current scientific contributions
must
be especially emphasized so that to formulate one or a few research
questions
which form the core of the PhD problem statement. Finally, the selected
research methodology and some early ideas, even neither implemented nor
validated, can be exposed. Finally, a general view of the work lying ahead
has
to be provided too.

Eligibility: The Early Stage paper format is dedicated to the 1st year PhD
students or early 2nd year PhD students who are starting to elaborate their
first research contributions.

Paper format: Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages in length,
including references.

LATE STAGE PHD

Expected contribution: Late Stage submissions aim at providing an overview
of
the accomplished PhD work from a methodological perspective. More
specifically,
it must provide an up-to-date state of the art that pinpoints some limits
motivating the contribution further exposed. Then, the current status of the
research work with a particular emphasis on the selected methodology is
expected and a comparison with the state of the art can be provided when
relevant and achievable. Finally, according to the PhD advancement, the
planned
or implemented evaluation methodology and to what extent the latter supports
reproducibility of research (sharing data sets, codes, etc.) have to be
exposed. For PhD students who have already graduated, the PhD outcomes and
the
way they push forward the initial limits, as well as their current limits,
is
particularly expected.

Please note that late stage submissions must not overlap with standard
scientific papers focused on a standalone scientific contribution as
presented
in long or short papers of conferences and workshops, such as Netsoft and
beyond.

Eligibility: Late Stage submissions target ending PhD students or those who
recently graduated, which is roughly from the beginning of the PhD
manuscript
writing up to 6 months after the defense. The Late Stage format is also
open to
ongoing PhD (i.e. 2nd year) if the submitted content satisfies with the
expectations exposed above.

Paper format: Submitted papers should not exceed six (6) pages in length,
including references.

General Eligibility

As PhD symposium differs from standard scientific tracks, and solely targets
ongoing or very recently defended PhD, some eligibility assessment must be
satisfied for submissions to be considered:
- The list of authors is restricted to the PhD student and the supervisor.
In
  the case where more than one advisor is involved in the PhD, thus leading
to
  several authors in addition to the PhD student, the PhD symposium chairs
must
  be informed and any official assessment must be provided.
- PhD students of accepted PhD symposium papers must register to Netsoft
2025
  and they are the sole person able to present their work during the event.
- An official letter from the PhD advisor(s) is required to state the PhD
  status (beginning for Early Stage, ending with PhD defense date (expected
or
  achieved) for Late Stage).

General Submission Guidelines

Two tracks are available for submission: one for Early Stage PhD
submissions,
and one for Late Stage PhD submissions. In both tracks, PhD students have to
submit two files: the manuscript and the letter of their supervisor to prove
their status as a PhD student. Manuscripts must be written in English and
formatted according to the standard IEEE double-column conference template
(10-point font). Templates and examples in LaTeX and Microsoft Word are
available for download at:

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZCQgQU5_4jtAwpwfyu5nsJ_G64WFBE_ZRV-6KT6B8qVK9nI6Ggy--XpuSZh7NMaQpVvS37rdD6Ws-niZ7Qcg9ZbYMqNtDiNZx9s$ .

Papers not matching the length and formatting requirements or violating
IEEE’s
guidelines on plagiarized content will be rejected without review. All other
submitted papers will be reviewed. Only PDF files will be accepted for the
review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through
EDAS using the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://edas.info/N33479__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZCQgQU5_4jtAwpwfyu5nsJ_G64WFBE_ZRV-6KT6B8qVK9nI6Ggy--XpuSZh7NMaQpVvS37rdD6Ws-niZ7Qcg9ZbYMqNtLqWIsBA$ . Accepted
submissions
are published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore
Digital Library, provided that they are duly presented.

Topics of Interest

The symposium solicits submissions in the same field of the main conference.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Softwarized cloud, fog, and edge infrastructures
- Network softwarization for 5G/6G
- Softwarization in Metaverse (AR/VR and digital twins)
- Cooperative multi-domain, multi-tenant SDN/NFV environments.
- Future Internet and New IP architectures.
- Mobility management in softwarized networks.
- High-precision communications and computing
- Service Function Chaining (SFC).
- Network slicing and slice management
- QoS and QoE in softwarized infrastructures.
- Network softwarization for deterministic Internet re-engineering
- Softwarization for Cognitive and autonomic networking
- Policy-based and Intent-based networking.
- AI/ML techniques and network softwarization
- Dynamic resource discovery and negotiation schemes.
- Assurance and Measurements in softwarized networks
- Resilience, reliability, and robustness of softwarized networks
- Security, Safety, Trust, and Privacy in virtualized environments.
- Energy Efficiency in network softwarization
- Abstractions and virtualization of resources, services, and functions.
- Programmability for Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN)
- Programmable Networking Protocols
- Programmable SDN and NFV: languages and architectures (P4 and others)
- Open source and network softwarization.
- Hardware acceleration for programmable network functions.
- Development methodologies for network softwarization (DevOps, NetOps,
verification).
- Deployment and transition strategies.
- Experience reports from experimental testbeds and deployments.
- New value chains and service models enabled by softwarization.
- Socio-economic impact and regulations for softwarization.

NetSoft 2025 PhD Symposium Co-Chairs
Guillaume Doyen, IMT Atlantique, France
Srinivas Petale, George Washington University, USA
Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy

-- 
Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Head of Big Data & Compute Continuum Research Laboratory
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Ferrara