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The Student Research Competition (SRC) program was added to the ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) in 2013. SAC SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC Tracks.

This program is open for graduate students currently enrolled in University or College and have active ACM and SIGAPP student membership. Abstracts must be authored by students only. Faculty advisor(s) cannot be listed as authors on the submission or on the final poster presentation. No group projects are allowed.

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts, of maximum 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format, to the START submission system. Abstracts must address original and unpublished research work related to a SAC track, with emphasis on the innovation behind the research idea. The submission should address the research problem being investigated, the proposed approach and research methodology, and sample preliminary results of the work. In addition, the abstract should reflect on the originality of the work, innovation of the approach, and applicability of the results to real-world problems

Submitting the same abstract to multiple SAC tracks is not allowed. The work must not be submitted to any another SRC program, journal or conference while it is under consideration for SAC SRC Program.

Student research abstracts must be submitted to their respective SAC tracks through the START submission system. The abstracts are reviewed by reviewers who review paper submissions to that track. The Track Chairs (TCs) manage the review process. Upon the review results, The SRC Chair and Program Committee select the best abstracts and invite their authors to participate in SAC .

No financial support in virtual conference. Each invited author receives $500 from ACM's SRC Program toward travel expenses such as Conference registration; Transportation expenses (air, rail, bus, taxi, car service, car rental, parking); Meals; Hotel rooms; Tips; Supplies for poster development; and Poster shipment, etc. In addition, invited authors are eligible to apply for the SIGAPP's Student Travel Award Program (STAP) for additional funding to cover travel expenses. For more information about SIGAPP's travel awards, please visit https://www.sigapp.org

Participation requires conference registration at the student rate, using the registration type "SRC Student Author".

A judging panel will evaluate both the submitted posters (supported by a video presentation) and then a remote presentation (set of slides based on the poster) during the second round of judging:
Round #1: Before the conference: judging all the submitted posters and recorded video presentations to select the top five posters.
Round #2: During the conference: judging the five live presentations to select the top three winners for prizes.

Authors of invited SRC submissions are required to i) prepare a poster in PDF format and ii) record a short video of max 10min, following these guidelines:

1. The poster content should be clearly divided into sections including introduction, problem definition, work summary, results, and conclusion.
2. The poster can contain diagrams, graphs, data, pictures and text that should be readable from a distance of at least 5 feet / 1.5 meters (if printed). All illustrations should be properly titled.
3. A heading label including the title, author name(s), and the author(s) address should be included at the top of the poster.
4. The poster format must be in A0(46.8 inch (1189 mm) H x 33.1 inch (841 mm) W).
5. The poster can be submitted in PDF format (upload address will be provided to SRC contributors).
6. The video presentation should cover the main points of the poster, discussing all the sections.
7. For the video, please ensure a resolution of 1080p, with a high-quality microphone.
8. The video can be preferably submitted in MP4 format (upload address will be provided to SRC contributors).

1. Prepare slides for about 10 minutes presentation.
2. Total presentation time is 15 minutes in a remote session during the main conference.
3. Allow Q/A session for 5 minutes.

Barrett R. Bryant, USA
Hisham M. Haddad, USA
Jiman Hong, Korea
Chih-Cheng Hung, USA
John Kim, USA
Maria Lancastre, Brazil
Sascha Ossowski, Spain
Hossain Shahriar, USA
Sung Y. Shin, USA
Dongwan Shin, USA
Roger L. Wainwright, USA

SRC Abstract Submission:
SRC Author Notification:
Camera-ready copies:
Author registration:
* Uploading of posters and video contributions by students: February 18th 2022
* Final decision on the evaluation of the posters / video contributions (top-5 submissions selected): March 20th 2022
* Online Presentations: Thursday April 28, 2022

For questions, please contact the SRC Program Chair: