Faint!! Mobicom~~

I just found out that the acceptance rate of this year’s ACM Mobicom is, guess what, 100%!!!

 

For those of you who are not familiar with Mobicom, let me tell you that Mobicom is one of the top notch conferences in the areas of EE and CS. It is very prestigious only because it’s highly selective. In the past years, the average acceptance rate was less than 10%. Simply put, if you have one paper published in Mobicom, then basically there is no need to submit this work to any other journals (yes, even top journals). Sometimes a Mobicom paper is ranked so much higher than a so-so journal paper.

 

Seeing this, you might be able to understand why I still couldn’t believe what I saw from Mobicom’s website, after rubbing my eyes for hundreds of times. Jesus, guess what went wrong this year? The answer is, Mobicom 2006 only got 16 submissions! Mobicom is a single-session conference, and the average number of accepted paper in the past years was around 20. So, to make the conference possible this year, every single paper has to get in!!!

 

But this ridiculous acceptance rate is not the thing that pissed me off. The thing that really bothers me is that I didn’t even try to submit a paper to Mobicom, because I thought my paper was not solid enough. Instead, I submitted my paper to Globecom and got it accepted. The submission deadlines of Mobicom and Globecom happened to be the same day this year. Damn it a thousand times!!! Had I tried to submit my paper to Mobicom, I may have had my first ever Mobicom paper in my life by now!!

 

I know I am so pathetic whining the funny 100% here! Shame on me!