Call for
Papers
IEEE Network Magazine
Special Issue on
Computer Network
Visualization
Background
Computer
networks are dynamic, growing, and continually evolving. As
complexity grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate to
human decision-makers the results of methods and metrics for
monitoring networks, classifying traffic, and identifying malicious
or abnormal events. Network administrators and security analysts
require tools that help them understand, reason about, and make
decisions about the information their analytic systems produce. To
this end, information visualization and visual analytics hold great
promise for making the information accessible, usable, and actionable
by taking advantage of the human perceptual abilities. Information
visualization techniques help network administrators and security
analysts to quickly recognize patterns and anomalies; visually
integrate heterogeneous data sources; and provide context for
critical events.
Scope
This special issue seeks
original articles examining the state of the art, open issues,
research results, evaluations of visualization and visual analytic
tools, and future research directions in computer network
visualization and visual analytics. All submissions should be written
to be understandable and appealing to a general audience. Research
papers should contain a substantial amount of tutorial content and
minimal mathematics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:
- Uses of visualization for network status
monitoring and situational awareness
- Visualization
methods employed in the classification of network traffic and its
analysis
- Visualization methods enhancing network intrusion
detection and anomaly detection
- Visualization methods for
the analysis of network threats (e.g. botnets)
- Visualization methods for the analysis of network
routing
- Methods for integrating analytics and
visualization together for network analysis tasks
- Methods
for visually integrating heterogeneous data sources to support
network analysis tasks
- Case studies of open source
visualization tools in network analysis tasks
- Evaluations of network visualization tools in
situ
Manuscript Submission
Articles should
be written in a style comprehensible and appealing to readers outside
the speciality of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Network
Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For
details, please refer to the "Guidelines for manuscripts" at the IEEE
Network Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines.
Submitted papers must be original work and must not be under
consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit
their manuscripts in PDF through ScholarOne (ManuscriptCentral) for
IEEE Network Magazine. Choose this special issue from the drop down
menu on the submission page. Authors uncertain about the relevance of
their paper to this special issue should inquire with the guest
editors before submission.
Schedule
Submissions:
April 1, 2012
Author notifications: July 1, 2012
Final
papers: September 1, 2012
Publication: November
2012
Guest Editors
John Goodall
Oak Ridge
National Lab
jgoodall@ornl.gov
John Gerth
Stanford
University
gerth@graphics.stanford.edu
Florian
Mansmann
University of Konstanz
Florian.Mansmann@uni-konstanz.de