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1998 Annual Review
SIGCOMM Program Review, March 1998
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Mission statement.
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Computer Communication Review (CCR): This is a strong publication,
with four issues a year in addition to the conference proceedings,
with 3-8 papers in each issue.
The Tables of Contents of all issues are on-line, along with the
back issues of CCR for 1992-1997.
Every paper gets at least one detailed review by an expert,
and turnaround time is generally very fast. The acceptance
rate over the last few years has been close to 45% of the
papers submitted.
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Transactions on Networking, co-sponsored by
the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
- SIGCOMM conference:
The conference has a high
ratio of submissions to acceptances
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Postscript,
PDF,
data).
The proceeding are made publically available on-line months
before the conference itself, and we have
on-line proceedings
for the 1995-1997 conferences.
The
1998 conference will be in Vancouver.
There is some history of
the tutorials being available over
local Instructional Television
and of
on-line access over the Mbone.
The
submission of papers, reviews by members of the
program committee, and feedback to the authors are all over the Internet,
but we have an in-person program committee meeting each year.
Each conference is preceded by two days of tutorials.
Special events at conferences include the 1997 panel
on Active Networking, the 1996
Multicast Workshop,
and the 1995
Workshop on Middleware.
Once every three years the SIGCOMM conference is held outside
of North America.
- Other sponsored conferences:
SIGCOMM co-sponsored
VRML 97 with SIGGRAPH.
SIGCOMM was one of the initial sponsors of MobiCom, which ended up as a new
SIG,
SIGMOBILE.
SIG MULTIMEDIA also evolved from the yearly Multimedia
conferences that were co-sponsored by SIGCOMM along with
a
long list of other SIGs.
The
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference
has also generally been
co-sponsored by SIGCOMM, along with SIGSAC and SIGCAS.
- Membership:
Membership numbers:
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Postscript,
PDF,
data).
- Management and financial status: healthy.
Fund balance:
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Postscript,
PDF,
data).
We are required to keep a fund balance of $116,637.
It is partly the generous fund balance that allows us to
do possibly-financially-risky things like making all of the conference
papers available on-line before the conference, or having
the conference in Europe.
(And then when possibly-financially-risky things turn out not to
be financially-risky at all, we have a generous fund balance.
Perhaps we could use it to make other materials freely available
on-line as well?)
The
organizational structure and the
terms of officers are publically available.
- Awards include the
SIGCOMM Award,
the
SIGCOMM Student Paper Award,
the
SIGCOMM Student Travel Awards, and the
SIGCOMM Service Award.
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Special projects that SIGCOMM has supported financially include the Internet Traffic Archive, the Network Bibliography, and a small amount for the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR). The procedures for applying for funding for Special Projects are publically available, aloong with a report on past funding.
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