Poster Session
Technical Program
Call For Posters
This year
we will be repeating the very
popular poster session aimed showcasing work-in-progress. This is an
opportunity to present and discuss current work in an informal setting
during the SIGCOMM 2004 week. Topics of interest are the same as
research topics in the SIGCOMM conference CFP.
Although
anyone can submit a poster, preference will be given to posters where
the primary contribution is from one or more students. Posters will be
reviewed by members of the SIGCOMM Poster Session Committee and the
authors of accepted posters will be notified by June 18. At the
conference, student posters must be presented by a student. Authors of
accepted papers may not submit a poster of the work in those papers.
Important
Dates
- Electronic submission address: sigcomm04-posters@cs.umass.edu
- Preliminary submission deadline: May
15, 2004 17:00 EDT
- Final Submission deadline: May 21,
2004, 17:00 EDT (Hard deadline)
- Notification of decisions: June 18,
2004
- Final version of abstracts due back:
July 23, 2004
Why should
you submit a poster?
This is a
great chance especially for students to obtain interesting and valuable
feedback on on-going research from a knowledgeable crowd at the
conference. Student authors of accepted posters will also have a chance
to apply for SIGCOMM 2004 student travel grants. Note that the travel
grant deadline is only one week after the poster notification date of
June 18, so we recommend interested students to plan ahead.
What is a
poster?
A poster
is a 30in x 40in or 74cm x 100 cm rectangular board on which you can
affix visually appealing material that describes your research. How you
use this is up to you: you may choose to print out up to nine 8.5in
x11in or A4 sheets of paper (e.g., paper copies of overheads) and tile
the poster board with these pages. Or, you may choose to format a
single large sheet of paper describing the work and attach that to the
poster board. You may orient it with the long edge either horizontally
or vertically. You should prepare the best material (visually appealing
and succinct) that effectively communicates your research problem,
techniques, results, and what is novel and important about your work.
What, when,
and where to submit?
Although the
final deadline for submission is May 21, 2004, 17:00 EDT, for any
submissions that arrive by May 15, 2004, 17:00 EDT, we will help verify
that printing, and formatting is appropriate and provide feedback
within a couple of days (with time to make a final submission by the
final deadline). Any submissions that arrive after the earlier deadline
will be taken as is and rejected if they do not meet the criteria. All
posters should be submitted by email to
sigcomm04-posters@cs.umass.edu
Submit a one
page abstract about your work/poster in PDF format by email. The poster
itself should not be included in the email, instead please include a
URL of the poster in your one page abstract---the poster should be
available for download in pdf format from this URL.
The one page
abstract should identify the key contribution of the work being
presented in the poster. In addition, it should describe the particular
the problem being addressed, what makes this problem interesting or
important, and what your approach is to the problem. We recommend that
you use the ACM
conference style for preparing your abstract. Include the title,
authors, institutional affiliations, status (student, faculty, and so
on) of each author and an email address of the contact author. In the
final version of the abstract, you should also include a URL that will
provide additional information about your work to the attendees.
Your
abstract should not exceed one page; longer submissions will not be
considered for review.
Submission process:
Submit your
one page abstract as a MIME attachment to sigcomm04-posters@cs.umass.edu.
Be sure to include a URL for your poster in the abstract. If it is not
possible to make your poster available for download via an URL, please
contact the posters chair at sigcomm04-posters@cs.umass.edu
for alternatives. Your submission will be acknowledged by email within
two days after you submit.
Our mailer can handle MIME attachments up to 4MB in size. While this
should be more than adequate for a one page pdf abstract, please
contact the posters chair at sigcomm04-posters@cs.umass.edu
if your abstract exceeds this limit.
Please
remember that the abstract should be no more than one page in PDF form
only. Word documents will not be accepted.
At the
conference, we will distribute to all conference attendees the
abstracts in addition to the conference proceedings. Accepted poster
authors will have about a month to revise their text prior to printing.
We will provide poster board and glue for mounting the posters.
The SIGCOMM
2004 Poster Committee will select between 15 and 30 of the most
interesting and thought-provoking posters by June 18, 2004 and notify
all contact authors. More details will be sent at that time.
Posters
Review Committee
- Kevin Almeroth (University of
California Santa Barbara)
- Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Tech)
- Wu-chang Feng (Oregon Graduate
Institute)
- Sergey Gorinsky (Washington
University, St. Loius)
- Sneha Kasera (University of Utah)
- Vishal Misra (Columbia University)
- Erich Nahum (IBM Watson Research
Center)
- K K Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs
Research)
- Prashant Shenoy (University of
Massachusetts, Chair)
- Tilman Wolf (University of
Massachusetts)
- Steve Hand (University of Cambridge,
UK)
- Jasleen Sahni (University of North
Carolina)
- Sambit Sahu (IBM Watson Research
Center)
- Dinesh Verma (IBM)
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