Dear colleagues,

The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, 
and Services (MobiSys 2020) [https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2020/] 
will be held June 15-19, 2020 in Toronto, Canada.

       Call for Papers

MobiSys 2020 seeks to present innovative and significant research on all 
aspects of mobile systems, applications, and services. The conference 
values technical contributions with working implementations and 
practical evaluations. We also welcome work that explores new and 
compelling mobile scenarios and applications as long as the work goes 
well beyond providing an initial vision.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   * Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems
   * Innovative mobile, mobile sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing 
applications
   * Tools for building and measuring mobile systems
   * Innovative wearable or mobile devices
   * Novel software architectures for mobile devices
   * Data management for mobile applications
   * Infrastructure support for mobile computing
   * System-level energy management for mobile devices
   * Operating systems for mobile devices
   * Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web
   * Security and privacy in mobile systems
   * Resource-efficient machine learning for mobile platforms
   * Systems for location and context sensing and awareness
   * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing
   * Vehicular and robotic systems
   * Systems and networking support for virtual or augmented reality
   * Applications of mobile systems in health, sustainability, and other
     domains
   * Non-traditional topics that bring new perspectives to mobile computing

Papers whose contributions overlap with work currently under review 
elsewhere must not be submitted to MobiSys. Papers whose contributions 
overlap with an earlier published paper will be considered only if (1) 
the previous paper was published (not just accepted) at a workshop at 
least 6 months before our submission date and (2) it adds significant 
new contributions over the previous paper. Authors uncertain whether 
their submission meets these guidelines should contact the program 
chairs. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be 
considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior 
to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as 
confidential.

MobiSys will use a double-blind review policy during the initial paper 
review. Authors are instructed to not include their names, affiliations 
and contact information on the manuscript they submit for review. 
Authors should also anonymize the content of their paper to hide their 
identity. Reviewers will not know the identity of the authors during the 
initial phase of the review process, however, anonymity will expire 
after the majority of the reviews have been submitted and preliminary 
outcomes decided. The identities of the authors will be revealed to the 
reviewers toward the end of the review process. Submissions which are 
not properly anonymized will be rejected without being reviewed.

Submissions must be in PDF. We will not accept papers in any other 
format. Submissions must use a 10pt font (or larger) and be correctly 
formatted for printing on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. Paper text 
blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double-column, with each column 9.25" 
by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns and single-spaced. Submissions 
MUST be *no more than twelve (12) pages + unlimited number of pages for 
bibliography references*. The 12-page limit includes everything (e.g., 
abstract, text, appendix, etc.) except for the bibliography references. 
Submissions can use this LaTex template 
<http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/misc/sig-alternate-10pt.cls> 
that is known to comply with the formatting requirements. Authors remain 
responsible for checking that their resulting PDF meets our formatting 
and anonymity specifications. Submissions not following these guidelines 
will be rejected without review.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, 
clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Papers may be 
conditionally accepted and shepherded by a member of the program 
committee, with final acceptance determined by consent of the shepherd.

As part of the submission process, authors of papers that describe 
experiments on human subjects, or that analyze nonpublic data derived 
from human subjects (even anonymized data), will be asked to certify 
that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We 
expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around 
data collection and experiments with human subjects.

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to register for the 
conference (at non-student rate) and present the paper in person.

Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of 
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.


       Best Paper Award

All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program 
committee will select a number of candidates for the award among 
accepted papers, and select one or more award papers prior to the 
conference.


       Important Dates

Abstract Registration: 		December 5, 2019 -- 23:59 EST
Paper Submission: 		December 12, 2019 -- 23:59 EST
Notification of acceptance: 	March 9, 2020


       Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Belding 
(ebelding@cs.ucsb.edu) and Jason Nieh (nieh@cs.columbia.edu)

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