Keynote 1: Intelligent Network Operations and Management — It's about the data

Intelligent Operations and Management, in general, and, Intelligent Network Operations and Management, in particular, is increasingly about End-to-End control across multiple networks/services; across multiple layers in network, computing, and software stacks; and, across a variety of time-frames. It is, therefore, a problem of integration and analysis of huge amounts of very heterogeneous data in real time. This talk will contain an overview of AT&T Shannon Labs research, and a discussion of our work in Information Mining and Software Research with applications in telecommunications industry including network operations, network security, IP network management, fraud detection, marketing, and business & consumer markets analysis. The emphasis will be on near real-time analysis and mining of large scale data streams. Selected future research direction will be presented.