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IEEE PerCom, now in its 25th year, will be held in Goa, India in March 2027 as an in-person physical event.
PerCom is the premier annual scholarly venue in pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing is at the forefront of mobile systems research, and has found its way into many commercial applications due to tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics such as wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, ambient intelligence, and smart devices.
Scope
PerCom 2027 solicits research contributions in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, especially those that cross traditional research boundaries. In particular, PerCom targets contributions in:
- Advances in pervasive systems and infrastructures: middleware systems and services; data engineering for pervasive computing; cloud, fog and edge computing; integrations of smartphones in pervasive experiences; applications of device-to-device coordination,
- Foundational theory and modeling for pervasive computing: context modeling & reasoning; programming paradigms, spatio-temporal modeling techniques, complex networks, adaptive computing,
- Technological innovations: architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications; energy-harvesting, self-powered, or battery-less systems; mobile and wearable systems; smart devices and environments; positioning, navigation, timing, and tracking technologies; and device-free human sensing,
- Domain-specific challenges and novel applications: activity and emotion recognition; urban/mobile crowdsensing & intelligence; pervasive healthcare and well-being; pervasive cyber-physical systems; smart homes and pervasive virtual assistants; sports analytics; pervasive nowcasting; service robotics; pervasive AR/VR; smart vehicles; disaster sensing and management,
- New techniques for user-level interaction: participatory and social sensing; fairness; user interface, interaction, and persuasion; online and offline social networking; human-machine collaboration,
- Enablers for actual Pervasive computing instrumentations: Pervasive security, privacy and trust; Ethical aspects of Pervasive Computing,
- Intersections of PerCom with: IoT and sensor systems; AI methods and models; opportunistic networks; pervasive data science; cyber-physical systems; 3D networks; green networking.
Contributions can be analytical, empirical, technological, methodological, or a combination thereof. Papers reporting strong systems engineering contributions backed by solid and appropriate evaluations are strongly encouraged.
Submitted papers must be unpublished and not be under consideration elsewhere for publication until decision notification. Contributions should be novel (those presenting only minor improvements over the state of the art will not be considered), should demonstrate a significant impact (i.e., they should address an outstanding problem) in the context of pervasive computing and communications applications, and should be rigorously validated.
Note that the impact of the contributions should be demonstrated in the context of pervasive computing and communications applications.
READ BEFORE SUBMITTING
PerCom 2027 will use a double-blind review process. Authors should make a good-faith effort to anonymize submissions. Do not omit self-references for anonymity; instead, cite your prior work in the third person, as you would any other author’s work. For detailed submission instructions, please visit the PerCom website at www.percom.org.
After the submission deadline, the PC Chairs will conduct a preliminary check of all submissions to identify papers for desk rejection. Reasons for desk rejection include:
- Incomplete submissions,
- Violations of the anonymization policy, such as including author names or affiliations, institutional references, or links to external content (e.g., websites or repositories) that reveal author identity. Posting a paper on arXiv is not considered a violation,
- Violations of the formatting policy, such as using the wrong template, another format than pdf, or exceeding the page limit,
- Out-of-scope submissions that do not address pervasive computing and communications,
- Immature submissions, including very short papers, papers with no original content, or papers lacking adequate evaluation.
Each remaining paper will be assigned to three TPC members. After the initial review phase, papers for which at least one reviewer sees a path toward an eventual publication at PerCom (weak accept) will be invited to submit a rebuttal addressing explicit reviewer questions. The rebuttal will be considered in the final decision and should focus on resolving misunderstandings or providing clarifications; additional experiments are not expected. Papers receiving no positive reviews will be early rejected and notified, allowing authors to improve their work for submission to another venue as soon as possible.
After the rebuttal phase, TPC members will make a final evaluation, and incorporate the responses into their final reviews. A meta-reviewer will be assigned to each paper to moderate an offline discussion among reviewers. Papers that will not obtain a consensus after the discussion, will be further evaluated during the online TPC meeting. Based on PC recommendations, accepted papers will be presented as posters following either a full presentation or an introductory talk (spotlight).
PerCom would not be PerCom without its community. For this reason, we are looking for ways to strengthen the community and encourage meaningful interactions. To this end, all accepted papers require a full registration and must be presented in person by one of the authors. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in the exclusion of the paper from the final proceedings and from the IEEE Digital Library, and the paper will not be eligible for the Best Paper Award. Accepted papers will have the option to submit an artifact. The presence of an artifact will be considered among the criteria for the best paper selection.
Submission Details
Paper submission must be done for the main conference and all associated events via HotCRP. The direct submission link for PerCom 2027 is https://percom2027.hotcrp.com/. The submission platform will be configured from August 1st.
The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found here . Papers must be at most 9 pages of technical content (10pt font, 2-column format), including text, figures, tables and appendices, and up to 1 additional page for references only.
Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore.
Important Dates
Paper registration in HotCRP: September 4, 2026, AoE
Submission via HotCRP: September 11, 2026, AoE
Early rejection notification OR invitation to submit a rebuttal to initial reviews: November 20, 2026, AoE
Rebuttal submission: November 27, 2026, AoE
Notification: December 18, 2026, AoE
Camera Ready: February, 2027 (exact date to be announced)
BEST PAPER AWARD AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award.
Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.
TPC Chair and Vice Chairs
Delphine Reinhardt
University of Göttingen, Germany
Franca Delmastro
IIT CNR, Italy
Dong Ma
University of Cambridge, UK
Tristan Braud
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
To contact the TPC chair and vice-chairs, please write to [email protected].