SenSys Steering Committee Bylaws Last updated August 3, 2015 March 2004 version Approved by: V. Bahl, D. Estrin, C. Partridge, T. Znati July 2007 version approved by: H. Balakrishnan, P. Bonnet, D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann, C. Partridge, C. Petrioli, J. Redi, M. Srivastava August 2015 version approved by: K. Whitehouse, C. Mascolo, C. Petrioli, C. Lu, R. Eskicioglu, L. Cox, A. Campbell, A. Ledeczi, P. Dutta, H. Haddidi, T. Abdelzaher SenSys introduces a high caliber forum for research on systems issues in the emerging area of embedded, networked sensors. These distributed systems of numerous smart sensors and actuators will revolutionize a wide array of application areas by providing an unprecedented density and fidelity of instrumentation. They also present novel systems challenges because of resource constraints, uncertainty, irregularity, and scale. SenSys design issues span multiple disciplines, including wireless communication, networking, operating systems, architecture, low-power circuits, distributed algorithms, data processing, scheduling, sensors, energy harvesting, and signal processing. SenSys seeks to provide a cross-disciplinary venue for researchers addressing these networked sensor system design issues. SenSys is held annually (typically in early November) with a highly selective single-track technical program and a hands-on research exhibition. The SenSys Steering Committee will ensure that the mechanisms for accomplishing the goals of the conference are in place. The committee will make recommendations to sponsoring organizations for location(s). The committee will select the General Chair(s), and the Program Chair(s) for each conference. The General Chair(s) and the Program Chair(s) will consult the Steering Committee on the Call for Papers. The General Chair has responsibility for obtaining SIG and Technical committee support and will request Steering Committee assistance, as needed. The GC will also report back to the SC after the conference regarding budget, assessment of conference quality, and any recommendations for the coming years. Steering committee composition: * Steering committee membership period is for 3 years * The Steering Committee starts the process of selecting GC and TPC Co-Chairs for year X no later than 3-6 months before Sensys X-1 is held. * Just before the GC and TPC co-chairs conference begins, they will join the Steering committee for a 3 year period (and thereby participate in selection of GC and TPC for the subsequent 3 years) * In addition, each of the two largest Special Interest Group or Technical Committee supporters assign a SC member for a two year term * In summary, the SC will generally be made up of: the 3 previous GCs and TPC-Co-chairs, as well as 2 SIG representatives, and each member will serve a 3 year term. * The SC will select a committee chair by vote of the committee at SenSys, or, if none is taken, the longest-serving GC on the SC will act as chair of the committee. * The SC can elect members to the SC. "Elected members" be nominated by any SC member at any time, as long as the SC would not have more than 2 elected members at any given time. The nominee will be voted on before the next conference date and, dependent on a majority vote and the consent of the elected member, will join the steering committee just before the next conference event, at the same time as the conference organizers. Elected members are listed on the SC Web page as "(elected)" under the year in which they rotated on and serve a 3-year term along with the OC members that rotate on that year. There is no observational year for elected members. Elected members have voting rights and can serve as SC chair if nominated, just like other SC members. Test of Time Awards: An award committee will be created to select papers for the Test of Time (ToT) award. The award committee will have 5 people and one person rotates on and a new person rotates off every year. The steering committee nominates and invites committee member(s) every year to fill vacancies due to rotations and/or resignations. A member serves as the chair in the 4th year after rotating on and helps the new chair to ensure a smooth transition in their 5th year. The first 4 years, members will rotate off based on a volunteer basis, otherwise in alphabetical order. The award committee membership will be posted on the Web page (http://sensys.acm.org/tot/), including abstentions from the award discussion. The award committee nominates candidate papers among all SenSys papers published more than 10 years ago. The award committee also sends out a public call for nominations (and posts it on a website) so anyone can nominate papers. Conflict of interests is defined as co-authors, the advisor/advisee of one of the co-authors, and close collaborators within 3 years. Members with conflict of interests should be excused from the award discussion and decision. When the chair has COI, the past chair will lead. The average number of awards per year should be 1. The upper limit is 2, and 0 is also OK. The awards are announced at SenSys and posted on the SenSys award page: http://sensys.acm.org/tot/ In order to change these bylaws, 2/3rds of the steering committee must formally agree to the changes.