Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC '97)

Aug 21-24 1997, Santa Barbara, California

PODC is a conference that focuses on research in the theory, design, specification or implementation of distributed systems. PODC is sponsored by SIGACT and SIGOPS.

Important dates

Jan 24, 1997: Paper submission deadline. As before, we encourage authors to submit papers electronically to PODC
Apr 20, 1997: Acceptance/rejection notifications
May 23, 1997: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due.
Aug 21-24, 1997: Conference dates. PODC '97 will be held just before WSS and just after Crypto.

On going to PODC97 ...

Online registration form
Online housing form
Local information
Tentative conference program (also contains the list of accepted papers, with many links to online versions)

Major changes from previous PODCs

Amir Pnueli will give his A. M. Turing award lecture at PODC '97.
PODC will hold tutorials before the conference (on Aug 21). Click here for more information.
We will collect full papers backing brief announcements at a web site.

Best student paper award

This year, two papers shared the best student paper award:
Relative Liveness and Behavior Abstraction
Ulrich Nitsche and Pierre Wolper
Determining Consensus Numbers
Eric Ruppert

Further information

The call for papers
Tutorials and invited speakers
Temporary notices about PODC '97 (e.g., room share information)
The PODC '95, PODC '96, PODC '98, and PODC '99 home pages
Other related conferences and calls for papers
About research in distributed algorithms and systems
Ordering proceedings from earlier PODCs
This page is maintained by Gil Neiger (gilATacm.org)