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August 2018 SIGCOMM Newsletter
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Contents
Call for site proposals for SIGCOMM 2020
SIGCOMM Artifacts evaluation 
SIGCOMM 2018 community session
Call for papers: PAM 2019
IMC 2018 Travel Grants
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Call for site proposals for SIGCOMM 2020
The SIGCOMM Executive Committee is soliciting proposals for hosting SIGCOMM 2020, which will be held in North America. Please see here for details on SIGCOMM and instructions for site proposals. Information about the conference and the format of site proposals can be found on the web:
http://sigcomm.org/events/sigcomm-conference
https://www.sigcomm.org/conference-planning/sigcomm-planning/site-proposal-instructions 
 
The deadline for full site proposals is October 30, 2018, but proposers are encouraged to let the steering committee know about their intent to propose earlier.  Please e-mail site proposals, intent to propose, and questions to the EC conference coordinator, Steve Uhlig (steve.uhlig@qmul.ac.uk).
 

SIGCOMM Artifacts evaluation
A growing fraction of the papers accepted by Computer Communication Review and the SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences includes artifacts such as simulation models, measurement datasets, software implementations, etc. These artifacts are an essential part of many of these papers, and artifacts’ availability encourages other researchers to build upon and extend previous results. The ACM SIGCOMM community showed to be sensible to artifacts availability and research reproducibility, as proven by the ACM SIGCOMM Reproducibility Workshop. Also, a survey conducted among the authors of the accepted papers at SIGCOMM’17, CoNext’17, IMC’17, and ICN’17 revealed that a significant fraction of the accepted papers contained artifacts.
 
SIGCOMM is setting up an artifacts evaluation committee that will evaluate the artifacts of the papers accepted in 2018 at SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences, workshops and in CCR. This evaluation will assign ACM reproducibility badges to the participating papers and a summary will be published in CCR. We seek volunteers who have experience in releasing or using paper artifacts to participate in this evaluation. If you would like to volunteer to be considered to serve on the Artifact Evaluation Committee, please complete this form. You can also contact Olivier Bonaventure if you have specific questions.
 

SIGCOMM 2018 community session
At every SIGCOMM conference, the Open Business meeting allows SIGCOMM members to hear the chair's report about the previous year and the main objectives for the coming one. The meeting ends with a Q&A session during which SIGCOMM members ask questions and provide suggestions. This year's meeting has been recorded and you can listen to the presentation and the discussion on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6P6ItSBVE
 

Call for papers: PAM 2019
The Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) conference brings together researchers and operators to discuss novel and emerging work in the area of network measurement and analysis. The PAM program committee invites 12-page papers with a registration deadline on 10th October (final submission 17th October). The complete CFP is available at http://pam2019.niclabs.cl/submission.html.
 

IMC 2018 Travel Grants
The ACM Internet Measurement Conference, which will be held in Boston, October 31- November 2, 2018, plans to encourage graduate student participation at the conference by providing financial assistance to students to travel to and attend the conference. Please direct questions to the travel grant chair Theo Benson, Brown University,  (theophilus_benson@brown.edu). More information can be found on the conference website: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2018/travel-grants/