Subject: [Maprg] [IMC 2022] CfP: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022 @Nice, France - paper registration due by May 11th

From: Oliver Hohlfeld <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:54:18 +0100

ACM Internet Measurement Conference – IMC 2022
                         Nice, France on October 25 - 27, 2022
                      https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/

                     Submission link: https://imc2022.hotcrp.com/

*Important Dates*

Paper registration:  May 11, 2022, 23:59 AoE
Paper submission:    May 18, 2022, 23:59 AoE

Early reject notification: 	Approximately July 11, 2022
Notification:        Friday August 19, 2022
Camera-ready due:    Monday September 19, 2022
Conference:          October 25 - 27, 2022

*Call For Papers ACM IMC 2022*

The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is a highly selective venue 
for the presentation of measurement-based research in data 
communications. The focus of IMC 2022 will be on research that improves 
the practice of network measurement, illuminates some facet of an 
operational network, or both. We encourage authors to discuss the 
implications of their results on future research and/or operations. We 
encourage authors to discuss representativeness and limitations of their 
work due to coverage of their measurements across space and time. 
Finally, we encourage authors to validate inferences using ground truth.

IMC takes a broad view of contributions that are considered in scope for 
improving the practice of network measurement, including, but not 
limited to:

* collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about network 
structure and network performance (e.g., traffic, topology, routing, 
energy utilization, performance)
* collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about 
application and end-user behavior (e.g., economics, privacy, security, 
application interaction with protocols)
* measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, 
assessment of performance bottlenecks, causality)
* methods and tools to monitor and visualize network-based phenomena
     systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings
* Novel methods for data collection, analysis, and storage (e.g., 
anonymization, querying, sharing)
* reappraisal of previous empirical network measurements and 
measurement-based conclusions
* descriptions of challenges and future directions the measurement 
community should pursue

Networks of interest include:
* Internet transit networks
* edge networks, including home networks, broadband access networks 
(e.g., cable, fiber), and cellular networks
* data center networks and cloud computing infrastructure
* peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks
* software-defined networks
* online social networks
* online services, platforms, and content providers
* experimental networks, prototype networks, and future internetworks

Authors unsure about topical fit are welcome to contact the program 
committee co-chairs at [email-masked].

*Review process and criteria*

IMC 2022 invites two forms of submissions:

- *Full papers* (up to 13 pages for text and figures + unlimited pages 
for references and appendix) that describe original research, with 
succinctness appropriate to the topics and themes they discuss.

- *Short papers* (up to 6 pages for text and figures + unlimited pages 
for references and appendix) that convey work that is less mature but 
shows exciting promise, OR offer results that do not merit a full 
submission. Short papers could articulate a high-level vision and 
describe challenging future directions that the authors believe the 
community should tackle; validate, verify, or update important results; 
or present new ideas that challenge existing assumptions.

Any submission exceeding the short paper page-length limit will be 
evaluated as a full paper.

Authors should submit only original work that has not been published 
before and is not under submission to any other venue. We will consider 
full paper submissions that extend previously published short, 
preliminary papers (including IMC short papers), in accordance with the 
SIGCOMM policy and the ACM Plagiarism Policy. The ACM policy on 
simultaneous submissions does not consider technical reports (including 
arXiv) to be concurrent publication or submission.

IMC 2022 will bestow two awards on paper submissions, (1) a Best Paper 
award; and (2) a Community Contribution award. The best paper award will 
recognize the outstanding paper at the conference, and all accepted 
papers are eligible for it. The community contribution award will 
recognize a paper with an outstanding contribution to the community in 
the form of a new dataset, source code distribution, open platform, or 
other noteworthy service to the community. To be eligible for the 
community award, the authors must make data or source code publicly 
available or have a software artifact that is accessible and usable by 
the public at the time of the camera-ready deadline. The authors 
indicate their eligibility on the submission form and are also 
encouraged to include a link to the contribution in the submitted paper.

There will be an opt-in shadow TPC for IMC 2022, to provide additional 
researchers (primarily junior ones) an opportunity to gain experience 
with reviewing and discussing paper submissions. The shadow TPC members 
will be bound to the same strict confidentiality rules that apply to the 
IMC 2022 TPC. Authors may opt into this shadow PC by unchecking a box on 
the submission form. Doing so will not adversely affect your submission 
in any way. Reviews from the shadow PC will be returned to authors, 
providing the incentive of additional feedback from the community.

As an experiment this year, the shadow PC will rank the top three papers 
in their set of submissions. A (non-shadow) TPC member will convey 
shadow TPC feedback about those top three papers at the IMC TPC meeting. 
The shadow PC will also select a best paper from the set of papers 
accepted by the (non-shadow) IMC TPC.

A few accepted papers may be forwarded for fast-track submission to 
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

*Early Rejection*

The review process will have several reviewing rounds. To allow authors 
time to improve their work and submit to other venues, authors of 
submissions for which there is a consensus on rejection will be notified 
early.

*Anonymity Guidelines*

Authors are expected to make a good-faith effort to anonymize papers. As 
an author, you should not identify yourself in the paper either 
explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references).

Anonymization of important details are not required, if they are 
critical for the evaluation of the paper. For example, system names may 
be left de-anonymized, if the system name is important for a reviewer to 
be able to evaluate the work, and the paper may point to existing public 
datasets and artifacts that highlight or underscore the contributions 
outlined in the paper.

Please follow the following guidelines:
- Author names and affiliations must not appear on any submission.
- Identifying information such as grant numbers must not be included on 
submissions.
- The text of the submission must refer to the authors’ own previous 
work in the third person, unless the previous work provides important 
context for evaluation of the existing contribution (e.g., the paper 
describes an implementation or deployment of a method previously 
developed by the same authors).

Authors are explicitly allowed to post their submissions on Arxiv or 
other public websites, and reviewers will be discouraged from searching 
for such listings while a submission is under review. However, authors 
are strongly discouraged from engaging in publicity for their papers 
while they are under review, unless doing so is in the public interest 
(e.g., responsible disclosure). Authors who are unsure of whether they 
are allowed to publicize their double-blind submissions should contact 
the program committee co-chairs at [email-masked].

Additional details on paper anonymity are available here 
<https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/anon/> and in the statement 
released by the IMC Steering Committee here 
<https://www.sigcomm.org/content/imc-statement-double-blind-reviewing>.

*Ethics*

The program committee may raise concerns around the ethics of the work, 
even if it does not involve human subjects. *All papers must include, in 
a clearly marked appendix section with the heading “Ethics”, a statement 
about ethical issues; papers that do not include such a statement may be 
rejected.* This could be, if appropriate for the paper, simply the 
sentence “This work does not raise any ethical issues.”. If the work 
involves human subjects or potentially sensitive data (e.g., user 
traffic or social network information, evaluation of censorship, etc.), 
the paper should clearly discuss these issues, perhaps in a separate 
subsection.

Research that entails experiments involving human subjects or user data 
(e.g., network traffic, passwords, social network information) should 
adhere to community norms. Any work that raises potential ethics 
considerations should indicate this on the submission form. The basic 
principles of ethical research are outlined in the Belmont Report 
<https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/read-the-belmont-report/index.html>: 
(1) respect for persons (which may involve obtaining consent); (2) 
beneficence (a careful consideration of risks and benefits); and (3) 
justice (ensuring that parts of the population that bear the risks of 
the research also are poised to obtain some benefit from it). Authors 
should further consult the ACM policy on research involving human 
subjects 
<https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects> 
for further information on ethical principles that apply to this conference.

Research involving human subjects must be approved by the researchers’ 
respective Institutional Review Boards before the research takes place. 
Authors should indicate on the submission form whether the work involves 
human subjects, and, if so, if an IRB protocol has been approved for the 
research. We also expect that any research follows the practices and 
procedures of the institution(s) where the work is being carried out; 
for example, some universities require separate approval for the use of 
campus data. We expect researchers to abide by these protocols.

We recognize that different IRBs follow different procedures for 
determining the status of human subject research, and approval or exempt 
status from a single institution may not align with community norms. To 
help the Ethics Committee review cases of concern, there is a need for 
more information about the research protocol. To this end, if the work 
involves human subjects, the authors must include with their submission 
a copy of the form that was used to determine IRB status (approved or 
exempt), sufficiently anonymized to preserve double-blind review.

If the submission describes research involving human subjects and none 
of the authors are at an institution with an IRB (or equivalent), the 
authors are nonetheless expected to follow a research protocol that 
adheres to ethical principles, as stated in the ACM policy on research 
involving human subjects. In such cases, the authors must use the Ethics 
section of their appendix to explain how their research protocol 
satisfies the principles of ethical research.

Some research does not involve human subjects yet nonetheless raises 
questions of ethics, which may be wide-ranging and not necessarily 
limited to direct effects. We encourage authors to be mindful of the 
ethics of the research that they undertake; these considerations are 
often not clear-cut, but often warrant thoughtful consideration. The 
program committee may raise concerns around the ethics of the work, and 
so we ask authors to outline these considerations explicitly in a 
separate appendix section (clearly marked with an appendix section 
heading “Ethics”), and when appropriate for context, in the body of the 
paper. The submission form will include a way to alert reviewers of this 
additional material.

Additionally, the program committee reserves the right to conduct 
additional evaluations and reviews of research ethics and reserves the 
right to independent judgment concerning the ethics of the conducted 
research.

Contact the program committee co-chairs at [email-masked] if 
you have any questions.

*Submission guidelines*

See https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2022/cfp/ for further information.

-- 
Prof. Oliver Hohlfeld
Chair of Computer Networks
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
https://www.b-tu.de/en/fg-rechnernetze
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