SIGMOBILE 1997-98 Annual Report

Conference Highlights
 
MobiCom'97, Budapest, Hungary
 
The Third Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'97), was held 26-30 September 1997, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference sessions took place in the beautiful Hungarian Academy of Sciences building, near the historic Chain Bridge, in the most scenic part of Budapest.

MobiCom'97 marked the third consecutive year of growth for this conference series. We received 101 research paper submissions, a growth in number of about 10% over last year, from which 26 "best of the best" papers were selected for presentation at the conference. The largest number of submissions came from the United States, although papers were submitted from 18 different countries, and well over half of the submitted papers came from outside the United States, demonstrating the truly international flavor of the conference and the research area. The paper review process was double-blind (reviewers were not provided author information) and almost all papers received three or more independent detailed reviews from Technical Program Committee members. All this resulted in an excellent technical program on the cutting edge of mobile computing and networking.

Two workshops were held in parallel on the day following the conference on 1 October 1997:

• The Second International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Systems (WOSBIS'97) and
• The First International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DIAL-M).

The SIGMOBILE Executive Committee approved a request by ACM to provide the past and present MobiCom conference proceedings to ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY subscribers.