SIGMOBILE Research Highlights

Papers of high quality and broad appeal will be selected from SIGMOBILE sponsored conferences by a committee including SIGMOBILE's major conferences representatives and elected officials. These papers will be recommended for consideration for the Communications of the ACM Research Highlights section, published in ACM GetMobile (if they did not already appear), and highlighted on the SIGMOBILE website.

Highlight Papers

Process

SIGMOBILE research highlights are selected based on the following process.

Committee Members and SIGMOBILE Conferences (2-year term)

  • Chair: Xia Zhou, Columbia University
  • Ex Chair: Lin Zhong, Yale University
  • SIGMOBILE EC Chair: Mo Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Engineering
  • Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University
  • Swarun Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Nic Lane, University of Cambridge
  • Chenren Xu, Peking University

Nomination Process and Paper Eligibility

Nominations come from three sources:

  • Best papers at SIGMOBILE flagship conferences (i.e., MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, UbiComp) are nominated by default.
  • The Research Highlights Committee chair will work closely with conference program chairs to review and nominate papers from the SIGMOBILE conferences for consideration by the full committee.
  • Any SIGMOBILE member may nominate a paper appearing in a SIGMOBILE conference. Authors may not nominate their own papers.

Nominations can be made by emailing title, authors, conference and year of publication to sigmobile-highlights at acm.org. All papers published in the covered conference in the previous 1-2 years will be considered by the committee. Papers published in conferences not in the above list are also eligible for consideration, but the committee does not take responsibility for proactively considering these venues. Community members may ask the committee to consider papers from such venues through the community nomination process, described below.

Community Candidates

Community members not on the committee may ask for papers to be considered by submitting to the committee chair a nominating proposal. Such a proposal must summarize the contribution of the paper and explain why the paper is suitable for inclusion in the SIGMOBILE Highlights series. Such a nominating proposal should be no more than a page in length. Periodic reminders of nominating deadlines will be sent to the SIGMOBILE mailing list.

Deadlines for Nomination

  • First Deadline: 28th February each year for papers published in the previous 1-2 years.
  • Second Deadline: 31st August each year for papers published in the previous 1-2 years.

Selection Process

The committee will select highlight papers by taking into consideration technical quality, the likely interest from computer scientists in other areas, and broad impact to other disciplines and the general public. For a subset of nominated papers, the committee will send to the CACM:

  • a copy of the paper
  • a description of why the paper merits publication in SIGMOBILE Highlights (1/2 page)
  • a list of possible people to write the Technical Perspective
  • consent to the nomination from the authors and prospective technical perspective writers

Conflicts of interest

Committee members’ conflicts of interest should be disclosed to the committee chair, who will decide how to handle such conflicts. A committee member may decide to recuse him or herself from the discussion of any paper for reasons of conflict of interest. Papers by committee members may be nominated by the community nomination process.

Contact: sigmobile-highlights at acm.org