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SIGMOBILE Viability Review http://www.sigmobile.org. David B. Johnson SIGMOBILE Chair dbj @ cs.rice.edu August 2005 SGB Meeting. SIGMOBILE Summary. New Executive Committee officers elected this year: Chair: Prof. David B. Johnson (Rice University)
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SIGMOBILE Viability Reviewhttp://www.sigmobile.org David B. Johnson SIGMOBILE Chair dbj@cs.rice.edu August 2005 SGB Meeting
SIGMOBILE Summary New Executive Committee officers elected this year: • Chair: Prof. David B. Johnson (Rice University) • Vice Chair: Dr. Jason K. Redi (BBN Technologies) • Treasurer: Prof. Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines) • Secretary: Prof. Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Healthy conferences and solid member benefits: • Four annual conferences: MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, and SenSys • Stable, strong attendance, with at or near record submission levels • Plus many co-located workshops & tutorials, plus many in-cooperation • Quarterly MC2R journal/newsletter plus monthly E-Mail Newsletter • Steadily growing membership, with very high retention rates • Outstanding Contribution Award recognizes leading researchers Strong finances but a little below required fund balance: • Being conservative with budgeting, will soon be back above SIGMOBILE is a vibrant, healthy, and growing SIG, in a strong position now and for the future
Conferences and Workshops Sponsors or co-sponsors 4 healthy annual international conferences: • MobiCom: Mobile Computing and Networking (since 1995) • MobiHoc: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (since 2000) • MobiSys: Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (since 2003) • Jointly sponsored with USENIX, alternates annually • SenSys: Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (since 2003) • SIGMOBILE and SIGCOMM (30% each);SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, SIGBED (10% each) • All are widely recognized as the premier conferences in the field Also many co-located workshops and in-cooperation events: • 7 sponsored co-located workshops in 2005, 7 workshops in 2004, … • 9 in-cooperation in 2005, 10 in-cooperation in 2004, … Strong support from industry donations: • 27 supporters in 2005: Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Telekom, HP, IBM, Intel, MSR, NEC, DoCoMo, Nokia, RSA, Sprint, Toyota, …
Publications SIGMOBILE is a major contributor to the ACM Digital Library Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R): • Quarterly newsletter and scientific journal for SIGMOBILE members • High-quality peer-reviewed research papers (double-blind reviewing) • Plus news, standards updates, CFPs, features, book reviews, etc. • All content is indexed in IEE INSPEC, increasing visibility and impact • Editor: Prof. Mani Srivastava (UCLA), Associate Editors: Dr. S.-J. Lee(HP Labs) and Prof. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Tech),plus 15 Area Editors and 5 Feature Editors • Fast turn-around time, generally less than 6 months to publication New SIGMOBILE E-Mail Newsletter sent monthly to members: • SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to news articles, calendar of events, and pointers to articles for active developers • Editor: Information Director Dr. Robert Steele (UT Sydney, Australia)
Membership and Finances SIGMOBILE membership remains very strong, steadily growing: • Now at 855 (691 professional, 63 affiliate, 99 students, 2 institutional) • Total retention now at 68.6% (between 63.7% and 71.4% since 2000) • Anomalous small decrease in 2004 1st-year retention (41.7% vs. 57.8% in 2003), but 2004 2+-year retention remained very strong (81.0%) • Planning e-mail survey of recently lapsed members • Many volunteers active in program committees and MC2R • Open annual SIGMOBILE business meetings are well attended Finances are strong but currently below required fund balance: • Loss from MobiCom 2002, but other conference finances are healthy • ACM increases in fund balance requirements are hurting too • Our fund balance has been growing steadily again since the loss • A race between balance growth and increases in balance requirements
SIGMOBILE Impact MobiCom is ranked as 5th highest impact Computer Science venue: • By CiteSeer scientific literature digital library and search engine • Based on the average citation rate of all articles published there MobiSys 2005 generated substantial international press interest: • Over 35 articles in technical and popular press from 10 countries • Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, and USA Several SIGMOBILE-started workshops grown to full conferences: • MobiHoc: Now SIGMOBILE 3-day symposium • WoWMoM: Now IEEE Computer Society 3-day symposium • MSWiM: Now SIGSIM/IEEE Computer Society 3-day symposium Two new international Local SIGMOBILE Chapters: • Nanyang Technological University Student Chapter (Singapore) • Sydney Professional Chapter (Australia)