Sunday, April 27, 2008

ACM SIGCOMM

Mission

SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a vital special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The annual SIGCOMM conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation.

There are two categories of paper submissions -- full papers and position papers. Full papers are no more than 14 pages long and typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Position papers are no more than 8 pages long and attempt to shape research directions by offering new perspectives, wisdom, and guidance rather than presenting mature work with quantitative results. Posters are one 30" x 40" (75cm x 100cm) page long, and present ongoing work. Student poster submissions will be favored.

Papers are double-blind reviewed (no author identification) by a technical program committee (TPC). Depending on the year and the program chairs, the TPC can have between 20-40 researchers. The paper acceptance ratio also varies year to year, from between 8-16%, on average accepting 30 papers out of 300 submissions.

The meeting is 3 days, single-track. It is accompanied by 2 days of tutorials and related workshops which vary each year. The conference occurs once a year in the late summer, with the location varing internationally, typically including locations in North America and Europe every three years.

Attendance is open, and there are some limited student travel grants available.

Upcoming Conference

ACM SIGCOMM 2008 will be held in Seattle, WA, USA, from August 17-22, 2008.

Previous SIGCOMM Conferences

The proceedings of the following past SIGCOMM conferences are available online:

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