ACM MobiSys 2025: Call for Papers

The 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2025) is a premier forum for innovative and significant research on all aspects of mobile computing, mobile applications, and mobile services. ACM MobiSys values high-impact technical contributions with working, replicable implementations and practical evaluations of modern mobile systems.

Location and Dates

• Location: Anaheim, California, US
• Main Conference Dates: June 23rd - 27th, 2025

Topics of Interest

ACM MobiSys 2025 solicits papers in domains including, but not limited to:

• Software for Mobile Devices, Systems, and Mobile Computing: Software architectures, operating systems, software debugging and testing.
• Applications of Mobile Devices, Systems, and Mobile Computing: Mobile sensing and crowdsourcing, healthcare and accessibility, sustainability, smart cities, smart agriculture, smart manufacturing, wearables, social networking, mobile web and mobile video, Internet of Things.
• Security and Privacy: Security and privacy of mobile devices, systems, and mobile computing.
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: With (and for) mobile computing, including novel applications of general ML, generative AI and LLMs for mobile systems, novel mobile systems applications with ML, resource-efficient AI for mobile systems, and edge AI.
• System-Level Management: Energy management, energy data management for mobile devices and applications.
• Sustainability: Of mobile devices, systems, and mobile computing, including energy-neutral systems, reduction of carbon footprint, energy harvesting, and sustainable power/energy storage.
• New Tools and Methods: For mobile devices, systems, and mobile computing, including building mobile systems, measuring mobile systems.
• Infrastructure Support: Metasurfaces and smart surfaces for mobile systems.
• Reflection and Experience: With using and operating mobile applications, networks, and systems; critical assessment of existing mobile systems and applications (academic and industrial); verification studies.
• Cyber-Physical Systems: Vehicular systems, robotic and drone-based systems, nano-satellites and mobile computing in outer space.
• Mobile Systems Sensing and Context Awareness: Location-tracking systems, sensing systems with radio, light, sound, and acoustics.
• User Interaction: Techniques and systems for novel human-mobile interactions and experiences.
• Next-Generation Wireless Systems: New mobile hardware architectures, future cellular systems (5G, 6G and beyond), millimeter-wave and THz communication systems, low-power wireless systems (RF backscatter, Low-Power WANs, etc.), joint communication and sensing systems.
• Non-traditional Topics: Quantum mobile systems, mobile computing for quantum systems, mobile systems for social studies, mobile systems for epidemiology research, mobile systems to combat disinformation, mobile systems for underwater communication and sensing.

Important Dates

• PC Self Nomination: October 4th, 2024
• Abstract Registration: December 2nd, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
• Paper Submission: December 9th, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
• Early Rejection Notification: January 20th, 2025
• Rebuttal Period: February 13th - 17th, 2025
• Final Decision Notification: March 7th, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• Submission Site: https://mobisys25.hotcrp.com
• Title and Abstract: Titles and abstracts must be sufficiently informative and correspond reasonably to the final version. Abstracts and/or titles like "TBD" or "XXX" will be desk rejected.
• Authorship: All authors must be declared at submission. Changes to the authorship list require substantial reasoning and approval from the program chairs.
• Concurrent/Previous Submissions: Papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Overlapping with prior workshop publications is allowed if significant new contributions are added. Consult program chairs if uncertain.
• Resubmission Policy: If a submission is based on previously rejected work, authors are encouraged to provide a short summary of how previous reviewer comments were addressed. This summary is visible to reviewers to avoid bias against resubmissions.

Review Process

• Double-Blind Review: Authors must not include their names, affiliations, or contact information on the manuscript. Content must be anonymized. Submissions not properly anonymized will be rejected without review.
• Judging Criteria: Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness.
• Conditional Acceptance: Papers may be conditionally accepted and shepherded by a program committee member.

Formatting Guidelines

• Format: Portable Document Format (PDF) only.
• Length: No more than twelve (12) single-spaced and numbered pages, including figures, tables, and appendices. Bibliographic references can follow on additional pages. Papers exceeding 12 pages (non-bibliographic content) will not be reviewed.
• Font Size: No smaller than 10 points.
• Layout: Double column format (9.25 inches x 3.33 inches columns, 0.33 inches space between columns, max 55 lines per column).
• Paper Size: Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches).
• Anonymity: Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or PDF file. No embedded hyperlinks are allowed.
• File Size: Limit to less than 15 MB. Contact chairs for larger files.
• Templates: Use provided templates (LaTex: \documentclass[sigconf,10pt]{acmart}). Authors are responsible for format compliance.

Ethics Review Board Approval

Authors describing experiments on human subjects or analyzing non-public data must certify that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB, HREC). Failure to adhere to this rule will result in rejection.

Mandatory Registration

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

Artifact Evaluation

Authors of accepted papers can opt for artifact evaluation, committing to provide implementations, models, test suites, benchmarks, and data for evaluation. Papers will receive badges based on the evaluation outcome.

Pitch Video

All accepted papers will be asked to submit a ~90-second video presenting their project along with the camera-ready version. The video will be part of the proceedings and uploaded to the SIGMOBILE YouTube Channel.

Policy on the Use of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Text generated using LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) must be clearly identified by authors in the submitted paper. This does not apply to editing/proof-reading. Authors must adhere to the ACM Policy on Authorship.