You are cordially invited to join us at the10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2007) at Sapporo Convention Center in Sapporo, Japan.

Importance of network operations and management has been discussed for more than 10 years since 1st APNOMS in1997, and now is acknowledged to dramatically increase due to introduction of next generation networks (NGNs). NGNs provide service flexibility for users by implementing many levels of services on a variety of networks including wireless networks and even ad-hoc networks. Managing NGNs is a big effort to achieve this service flexibility as well as enabling new services, such as IPTV and multimedia group communications. These services need high level of QoS management which is a key factor of NGNs and is achieved by management features of NGNs. The operation system is not only a support system but a service creation mechanism when NGNs are established.

The organizing committee of APNOMS 2007 has timely selected ¡°Managing Next Generation Networks and Services¡± as the main theme of the symposium. The

Services¡± as the main theme of the symposium. The  management technologies contain not only network technologies but many aspects of ICT technologies realizing flexible services which are expected to be widely discussed during three days of the symposium. The symposium consists of keynotes, tutorials, special sessions, distinguished experts panel, technical sessions, innovation sessions, poster sessions, and the exhibitions. The innovation session is a new program of APNOMS 2007 to present and discuss ongoing research, work-in-progress ideas, practical solutions, experimental studies, and any topic of interest to the community.

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the participants to the symposium. I sincerely hope that all of you will help make this symposium the most productive and useful and have fruitful discussions with other participants.

Finally I would like to thank all contributors to this symposium who worked hard to make this all possible. I would also like to thank all committee members, who devoted their time to preparing and organizing the symposium toward the success.

APNOMS 2007 General Chair
Hiroshi Kuriyama
NEC, Japan