Network Management: Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless and Mobile Networks, IP Networks, LANs, Optical Networks, Sensor Networks, Overlay Networks, Virtual Networks, Software Defined and Programmable Networks, Data Center Networks, Smart Grids, Home Networks

Service Management: Multimedia Service Management (Voice, Video, ...), Data Service Management (email, Web, ...), Hosting (VMs, ...), Grids, Cloud Computing Management, Resource Provisioning and Management, QoE-centric Management, Service Discovery, Migration and orchestration  Smart Grid

Business Management: Legal and Ethical Issues, Process Management

Functional Areas:  Fault Management, Configuration Management, Accounting Management, Performance Management, Security Management, SLA Management, Event Management, Energy Aware Management

Approaches: Centralized Management, Distributed Management, Autonomic and Self-Management, Policy-Based Management, Federated Network Management, Pro-active Management, Energy-aware Network Management

Technologies: Protocols, Middleware, Mobile agents, Peer-to-Peer, Grid, (Data, Information, and Semantic Modeling), Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Human Machine Interaction, Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS)

Methods: Control Theories, Optimization Theories, Economic Theories, Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithms, Logics Probabilistic, (Stochastic Processes, Queuing), Theory, Simulation, Experimental Approach, Design, Monitoring & Measurements, Data Mining and (big) Data analytics