TSSG Organise and Sponsor Manweek 2007

After running the very successful Manweek 2006 in Dublin in 2006, the TSSG (in Waterford Institute of Technology) were requested to organise Manweek 2007 in San José, California, hosted by Cisco. By underwriting the financial risk of running such a conference, the TSSG directly supported the IEEE CNOM group's aim to continue to build on previous successes of Manweek. TSSG members were very active on the committees that organised the overall event and the individual workshops and conferences. The MACE workshop, run by the TSSG, has now established itself as one of the premier events for publishing papers on autonomics communications.

• DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management
  (Oct 29-31)
• MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
  (Oct 31 – Nov 2)
• IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management
  (Oct 31 – Nov 2)
• MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
  (Oct 29-30)
• EVGM 2007 – 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM)
  (Oct 29-30)

The general theme of this Manweek 2007 was "End-to-End Virtualization of Networks and Services", a topic that captures the imagination of industry and researchers alike. In addition, there were several keynote speeches, a welcome reception, a social event at the San José Tech Museum of Innovation, and a social event at Santa Clara Mission Gardens. This year's Manweek also featured two tutorials ("Device Instrumentation for Active and Passive Performance Monitoring", "Basic and Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking") free of charge for registered Manweek attendees.