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R-letter of August 2013 - IEEE Communications Society

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<strong>IEEE</strong> COMSOC MMTC R-LetterPaper Nomination PolicyFollowing the direction <strong>of</strong> MMTC, the R-Letterplatform aims at providing research exchange,which includes examining systems, applications,services and techniques where multiple mediaare used to deliver results. Multimedia include,but are not restricted to, voice, video, image,music, data and executable code. The scopecovers not only the underlying networkingsystems, but also visual, gesture, signal and otheraspects <strong>of</strong> communication.Any HIGH QUALITY paper published in<strong>Communications</strong> <strong>Society</strong> journals/magazine,MMTC sponsored conferences, <strong>IEEE</strong>proceedings or other distinguishedjournals/conferences, within the last two years iseligible for nomination.Nomination ProcedurePaper nominations have to be emailed to R-Letter Editorial Board Directors:Irene Cheng (locheng@ualberta.ca),Weiyi Zhang (maxzhang@research.att.com), andChristian Timmerer(christian.timmerer@itec.aauat)The nomination should include the completereference <strong>of</strong> the paper, author information, abrief supporting statement (maximum one page)highlighting the contribution, the nominatorinformation, and an electronic copy <strong>of</strong> the paperwhen possible.Review ProcessEach nominated paper will be reviewed by members<strong>of</strong> the <strong>IEEE</strong> MMTC Review Board. To avoidpotential conflict <strong>of</strong> interest, nominated papers coauthoredby a Review Board member will bereviewed by guest editors external to the Board. Thereviewers’ names will be kept confidential. If tworeviewers agree that the paper is <strong>of</strong> R-<strong>letter</strong> quality,a board editor will be assigned to complete thereview <strong>letter</strong> (partially based on the nominationsupporting document) for publication. The reviewresult will be final (no multiple nomination <strong>of</strong> thesame paper). Nominators external to the board willbe acknowledged in the review <strong>letter</strong>.R-Letter Best Paper AwardAccepted papers in the R-Letter are eligible forthe Best Paper Award competition if they meetthe election criteria (set by the MMTC AwardBoard).For more details, please refer tohttp://committees.comsoc.org/mmc/r<strong>letter</strong>s.asphttp://committees.comsoc.org/mmc 21/22 Vol.4, No.4, <strong>August</strong> <strong>2013</strong>

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