SIGMOBILE Research Highlights

SIGMOBILE Research Highlights

Papers of high quality and broad appeal are selected from SIGMOBILE sponsored conferences by a committee including SIGMOBILE's major conference representatives and elected officials. Selected papers are recommended for consideration for the Communications of the ACM Research Highlights section, published in ACM GetMobile when appropriate, and highlighted on the SIGMOBILE website.

Complete archive

All Highlight Papers

39 papers are listed below, grouped by publication year.

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

Nomination process

Process

SIGMOBILE research highlights are selected by the Research Highlights Committee.

Committee Members and SIGMOBILE Conferences

  • 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 Sources

  • Best papers at SIGMOBILE flagship conferences, including MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, and UbiComp, are nominated by default.
  • The committee chair works with conference program chairs to review and nominate papers from SIGMOBILE conferences for full committee consideration.
  • Any SIGMOBILE member may nominate a paper appearing in a SIGMOBILE conference. Authors may not nominate their own papers.

Community Candidates

Community members not on the committee may ask for papers to be considered by submitting a nominating proposal to the committee chair. The proposal should summarize the contribution of the paper, explain why it is suitable for the SIGMOBILE Highlights series, and be no more than one page in length.

Nominations can be made by emailing the title, authors, conference, and year of publication to sigmobile-highlights at acm.org.

Deadlines and Selection

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

The committee selects highlight papers by considering technical quality, likely interest from computer scientists in other areas, broad impact to other disciplines, and public appeal.

Submission Package

For selected nominated papers, the committee sends CACM a copy of the paper, a short description of why the paper merits publication in SIGMOBILE Highlights, a list of possible people to write the Technical Perspective, and consent from the authors and prospective technical perspective writers.

Committee members should disclose conflicts of interest to the committee chair, who will decide how to handle them. A committee member may recuse themselves from discussion of any paper for conflict-of-interest reasons. Papers by committee members may be nominated through the community nomination process.

Contact: sigmobile-highlights at acm.org