The 6th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2002) will be held in the attractive island, Jeju, Korea on September 25-27, 2002. The theme of APNOMS 2002 is ¡°Integrated Management for Telecommunications Solutions - Process, OSS and Technology ¡±. With the rapid progress in the information networking technologies, Solutions for Network Operations and Management surely become important more and more for our e-World environments. APNOMS 2002 will provide excellent opportunities for researchers, engineers, network planners, and service providers in telecommunications to learn and share ideas, views, technologies and experiences on network operations and management. You are cordially invited to participate in APNOMS 2002.

Keynote Speeches:

- Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterlooo, Canada), Managing the Internet the Telco's Way!

- Martin Creaner (TeleManagement Forum, U.S.A.), Surviving in Today's OSS industry

- Toshitaka Tsuda (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan), Towards the Ubiquitous Network

- Jae-Woo Yang (ETRI, Korea), Next Generation Access Networks

Tutorials:

- Koichi Asatani (Kogakuin University, Japan), Trends and QoS Issues in VoIP Service

- Young-Tak Kim (Yeungnam University, Korea), DiffServ-aware-MPLS Networking: a Promising Traffic Engineering for Next Generation
  Internet (NGI)

- Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), Quality of Service Control in the Internet

- Graham Chen (EPAC Technologies, Australia), Wireless Location-based Services: Technologies, Applications and Management

- Christian Rad (AT&T Laboratories, U.S.A.), Service Level Agreements (SLA)

- Kouzou Sakae (NTT DoCoMo, Japan), IMT-2000 Network, Operation Support System and Service

Special Session:

Theme: Challenge for Integrated Management

Chair: Shoichiro Niwa (Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd, Japan)

- Nobuo Fujii (NTT, Japan), Broadband Network, Integrated Management and Standardizations

- Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand), QoS Stratergy for MPLS Environment

- Kenzo Takahashi (Multimedia University, Malaysia), Survivability Optimization of Broadband Networks Using Genetic Algorithms

- Alexander Kostin (Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia), Planning of Integrated Network and Service
  Management Systems for the Russian Telecommunications Market

- Martin Creaner (TeleManagement Forum), The Progress of the NGOSS Initiative towards simpler integrated management

- Ilsoo Ahn (Samsung Electronics Co, Korea), Integrated Management for the Next Generation Network

- Hiroyuki Okazaki (NEC Europe Ltd.), Challenges in Inter-Operator Network and Service Management

- Wilfred Wong (NetTasking Inc. Singapore), Maximizing IT Efficiency in the Managed Services Provider Environment

- Dongsik Yun (KT OSS Lab, Korea), Operation & Management of KT ADSL Networks

- Hideyuki Shinonaga (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan), Latest Mobile Services and Associated R&D Activities

- Si-Hong Lee (SK Telecom, Korea), Wireless Internet QoS Management in SK Telecom

Distinguished Experts Panel:

Theme: Integrated Management for Telecommunication Solutions - Process, OSS and Technology

Chair: Tai M. Chung (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)

- Salah Aidarous (NEC America, USA)

- Peter Buckner (TCSI Inc, USA)

- Graham Chen (EPAC Technologies, Australia)

- Wonhee Sull (SK Telecom, Korea)

- Makoto Takano (NTT West, Japan)

Program at a Glance:

Registration Fees:

Map of Jeju(Cheju):

For more information, please contact:

¢º  Byoung-Joon Min, Univ. of Incheon, Korea:      bjmin@incheon.ac.kr

¢º  MoonSook Song, EzNetSoft, Korea:                  moon@eznetsoft.co.kr

¢º  Hiroshi Uno, NTT, Japan:                                    uno@ansl.ntt.co.jp

APNOMS 2002 Web site: http://www.apnoms.org/2002

Seogwipo KAL Hotel: http://www.lifeinkorea.com/DRS/Hotels/hoteldisp.cfm?Lang=English&HotelID=1023